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Re: Spacing for S. Chard


Hi Mary,

This is one of those plants that can be harvested as many small plants or
after you have harvested the small plants early in the year, let the plant
mature and produce huge, tobacco size leaves. They should be spaced on 24"
C.(If you use a 4' wide beds, then put them on the end of a bed 1' C ,two on
each end). In my temperet zone of East bay Oakland, CA. the plant have been
harvested all winter long. They, like beets, will go to seed in their second
year. They produce 6-8' stalks of seed that I let one complete the cycle and
then let mother nature replant each year. I removed to the compost pile
several plants earlier this fall. They sprouted right there on top of the
pile and are responsible for most of the best leaves I brought to the table
this winter. We are plagued with a fly maggot the lives inside the leaf
during the spring and summer, making it useless - so I wait for the fall and
winter leaves.

David Crawford
Pinole, CA.

>Acording to the "book", spacing for swiss chard is 6 inches or 4  per
square.
>I have impatiens started.
>
>Ed in SW Illinois
>Where we have all of an inch or so of snow


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