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How to Grow Chard
Index
- Sowing Instructions
- How to Transplant
- Crop Maintenance
- How to Harvest
Sowing Instructions
- Sowing Time: Sow indoors under cover in mid Spring
- Can be sown in late Summer for Winter greens
- Sowing Location: Indoors, thin & then transplant out later
- Sow in 24 cell seed trays, 3 to 5 seeds per tray, thin later
- Can be sown directly outside in late Spring
- Sowing Depth: 1 inch (2.5cm)
- Using potting compost, soak compost & then sow seeds
- Cover lightly with compost
- Position in a bright, frost free location
- Keep moist
How to Transplant
- Thin 2 weeks after germination to one seedling per cell
- Once large enough to handle you can transplant out into the garden
- Harden off your seedlings first. Place out during the day for a week before planting out
- Space 30cm apart
- Soil: A fertile soil which is high in nitrogen is best
Crop Maintenance
- Chard benefits from a nitrogen rich soil, add fertiliser before transplanting out
- Thining out: Thin to 30cm between plants
- Keep weeded & moist at all times
- If growing for Winter greens, cover rows of crops with cloche, mini tunnel or fleece tunnel
- Protect seedlings from slugs
How to Harvest
- Can be grown as a cut & come again crop
- Harvest once foliage is 10cm tall
- Cut away leaves at base
- Give plants time to recover
- Can be harvested again
