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Speaking of Swiss Chard/Soil Sterilization

Square Foot Gardening List - http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

I only have 6 plants.  I bought them at the Mum Farm already started. 
The leaves are about 6 - 8 inches long now, and I am wondering if I
should wait longer or go ahead and harvest the outer leaves.  If I do,
this will give me about 3 Tablespoons of greens when I cook them!  45
days to harvest, huh?  So if I plant some seeds in flats now, and then
put them into a few squares that have been harvested of other things in
about 6 weeks, I could have a nice fall crop probably.  And then I could
extend that through part of the winter if I cover them somehow perhaps? 
I am so new to this.  I guess my question is, should I wait longer for
the leaves to get bigger?  If I do, will they keep producing?  Am I just
being impatient?

My intro. to Swiss Chard was when I was pregnant for my first child, 24
years ago. My mother's friend brought over a steady supply of Chard from
her garden, my mom cleaned and cooked it, and I ate it as fast as it came
to us.  I loved it!  What a great thing, that it's growing season is so
long, and it is such an easy thing to grow.  If only I'd put in more of
it!  To tell the truth, the 6 I have were the last that the Mum Farm had
or I would've bought more.  I was so late getting my garden in, I mostly
put in already started plants from the Mum Farm.  Next year ....

I really appreciate the info. on soil sterilization.  I am definately
going to try this.  I have a slope that I want to kill.  Patience.  It is
so hard to be patient, because all of these things take time and if it
were up to me it would be the only thing I did!  But I have 4 children
(at home) and a husband that need attention also, say nothing of that the
house work doesn't take care of itself!  But if I am going to do this
garden thing, I want to do it right and save myself time in the long run
- the old saying "a stitch in time saves nine."

I have been looking at the garden sites a few people have shared, and
really enjoy them.  Charlie, I wish somehow there were descriptions that
went with the pics.  Could you give some sort of description to the list?
 (Pic. #1 This is ....)  Or is there a description somewhere and I missed
it?  Regardless, your gardens look great.  Bill, your ooo la la always
takes me by surprise, every time I have gone there or when I am at one of
your links and go "home."  Too funny ... great site.  I hope to get some
pics. up before the summer is over.  We don't have a digital camera (one
of my husband's goals is to get one soon.)  We seem to take forever to
get films developed.

Sorry so long ... I guess I like this garden talk.

Deb
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