Spinach Swiss Chard Fordhook Giant - 50 Seeds

Height 50cm.

Swiss Chard Fordhook Giant is a very delicious and beautiful swiss chard variety. It has white veins, stems and it's surrounded by dark green wrinkled leaves. Swiss Chard is also known as silver beet, beet spinach and leaf beet. Swiss Chard can grow all season long, even after a light frost. This easy growing and sowing variety is mainly grown for it's delicious leaves. But the stems can be eaten too.

Swiss Chard is very healthy and versatile. You can cook, stir-fry, stew, steam, cook in the oven or shortly cooked as spinach the leaves of Swiss Chard. You can also finely chop the leaves and use them raw in salads. Use the leaves of Swiss Chard in soups and mashed potato stews. The flavour of Swiss Chard is very much the same as the flavour of spinach. Combine Swiss Chard with cheese, eggs, potatoes, chicken, beef, minced meat, cumin, curry and with sweeter vegetables like carrots, courgettes, tomatoes, leek and peas. The veins can be cooked like asparagus or cooked together with the leaves, but the veins requirer a longer cooking time. Hardy annual.

Planting Season:  Year round 

 Spacing: 30 x 30 cm 

 Days to Maturity:  60 - 65 Days 

 Position: Full sun / Partial shade