Vegetable Growing Guide: Swiss Chard

This is also known as seakale beet, silver chard and ruby chard. It is a dual-purpose vegetable: the leafy part being used as an excellent alternative to spinach while the thick, fleshy midribs are cooked and used like asparagus.

Sow as for spinach and harvest from late summer to late autumn. The foliage dies off during the winter but there is rapid regrowth in early spring.