Common Name: Swiss chard Botanical Name Beta vulgaris Family: Amaranthaceae Plant Type: Annual, vegetable: Size: 1-2 ft. high, 8 in-1.5 ft. wide Sun Exposure ...

Thin your young chard plants when they are a couple of inches tall to about 12 inches apart to grow to their mature size, about 2 to 2 1 / 2 feet tall. You can eat the baby plants pulled out by ...

Swiss chard, the plain, white-stemmed kind, was the most successful crop in my first San Francisco gardens. So much so, in fact, that I got tired of eating it. Then, after many years of chardless ...

Vitamin K1, which is mostly found in plant sources, is abundant in Swiss chard. Just 1 cup (175 grams) of cooked Swiss chard offers 477% of the DV for this important nutrient ( 3 ).

I'm wondering why I put in 8 chard plants this year. It seems a little excessive, about double the number I usually grow. They're very pretty, and I like chard, but still, 8 plants is a lot of ...

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