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Swiss Chard/ Spinach - Beet Greens - (Beta vulgaris spp. cicla) |
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Large soft, green leaves on bushy, 2.5 ft. plants. Pick outer leaves to get a constant supply of tasty greens from May - fall. Good raw in salads, cooked like spinach - or stir-fried with stems. This warm weather spinach substitute withstands heat, producing well until heavy frost.
Spinach beet green leaves look similar to swiss chard however the stems are thinner and the exceptionally tender leaves are smooth, not puckered. Unlike chard, it has a sweeter, more spinach-like flavor that lingers pleasantly on the palette. Unlike spinach, it lasts and produces from June, through hot weather into fall, even withstanding light to moderate frosts.
In 1869 The American Horticultural Annual remarked: Not altogether a new variety ... deserves to be better known.
60 Days
Approx 100 seeds per pack
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