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Ruby Red Swiss Chard

Ruby Red Swiss Chard

Regular price $2.75 USD
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Ruby Red
Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla

59 days — 'Ruby Red' chard produces deep-green, savoyed leaves on candy-apple red colored stems. It is both beautiful and tasty and picked young when the leaves are still small, makes a nice addition to salad blends.

Its attractiveness has resulted in it becoming a popular commercial variety for fresh market sales. Each packet contains one gram, which can vary from 30 to 50 seeds.
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Planting Instructions: As soon as the soil can be worked in early spring, in a location that has well-drained soil and receives about eight hours of full sun daily, sow seeds ½-inch deep, every 1 to 2-inches, in rows spaced 12 to 24-inches apart.

Cover with loose soil and keep moist until seedlings appear. Water weekly after that and cultivate to control weeds. When plants are 1½ to 3-inches tall, thin plants to eight inches apart.

Start harvesting individual leaves when they are about eight inches in length. The leaves become tough with age.