D2E SILVERBEET: Fordhook Giant

D2E SILVERBEET: Fordhook Giant

Store / Spinach & Silverbeet / Chard
AU$4.50
Price incl. GST (10%) AU$0.41
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SILVERBEET: Fordhook Giant

(BETA VULGARIS)

It supplies useful amounts of carbohydrates, fibre, vitamins A and C and riboflavin from the fleshy green cooked leaves. As a wild plant, silverbeet is a biennial and produces flowers and seeds after after the winter of the second year after planting. Under cultivation, it is treated as an annual and is harvested before the plants ‘bolt’ into flower.
A slightly acid to neutral soil is preferred (pH 5.8 to 7.0), well supplied with organic matter.

Pick outer leaves first and continue to pick throughout winter or harvest like pak choi.

Disease resistant

WHEN TO PLANT

Cool Climate: SEP – MAY

Temperate: SEP – JUN

Arid: MAR – NOV

SOIL PREFERENCES

PH 6 – 6.8

Moderate, well-drained soil

GROWING TIPS

Direct sow or seedling tray 10mm-20mm deep and keep moist.

Plant or thin to 20-40cm apart.

To harvest; cut each stem. The plant will continue to produce over a long period.

Cold, but not frost hardy.


APPROX 150 SEEDS

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