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'Bright Lights' Swiss Chard Plants
Taste the rainbow
Grown by Josh
South Downs National Park
Pre-order for delivery Late May
Pre-order for delivery Late May
The highlights
- Colourful stalks taste slightly sweet
- Easy growing and little maintenance required
- Saute with garlic and fresh lemon juice
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
Description
- This colourful chard variety is super easy to grow and the vibrant, rainbow stalks make it a fun plant for kids to grow to help get them into gardening
- Swiss chard leaves have a mild, earthy and slightly bitter taste when raw, becoming sweeter when cooked. Use the smaller leaves in salads, cook the larger leaves with a dollop of butter, or chop up the multicoloured stems and add to a gooey, cheesy gratin
- 'Bright Lights' is what's known as a "cut and come again" plant. This means you can simply take what you need and the plant will continue to grow more leaves afterwards. You can either take a few leaves at a time or cut all the leaves at once. See "What to expect" for more details
- This plant's crinkled green leaves are packed full of antioxidants like beta-carotene and minerals such as magnesium and potassium
- Harvest throughout summer and well into the autumn months
- If the winter isn't too cold or wet, then your chard will come back to provide a great crop the following spring
- This variety has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit - an indicator of its indisputable quality
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What To Expect
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How To Grow
Good pest and disease resistance
Chard can be prone to flea beetles and birds - you can deter both by using a horticultural fleece. Disease wise, chard can experience both grey mould and mildew (downy). You can reduce the risk of these by ensuring good plant hygiene.
Water regularly
Water your chard regularly, especially when first establishing, and ensure that the soil is kept evenly moist. Container-grown chard will require more watering than those plants grown in the ground.
Full sun to part shade
Swiss chard does best in full sun but can withstand part shade.
Any fertile, moist, well-draining soil
Chard plants like soil that's: full of nutrients, well draining and slightly acidic.
Not Required
Chard plants are low maintenance and don't require any feeding - that's what we like to hear!
Planting Calendar
- Best time to plant
- Harvest
- Flower
South Downs National Park
Meet Josh
Slow grown veg from the sunny South Downs
Our vegetable plants are sown on a family farm in Lancashire, then nurtured into strong young plants by Josh in the sunny South Downs before they rock up in your garden. By selecting only the strongest and tastiest varieties, Josh makes sure you get a headstart on your plot, with impressive crops and no waste.
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Our plants are grown in the UK
Specialist UK growers we know and trust grow your plants the traditional way, with organic fertiliser and biological pest control. They pick only the healthiest plants for you, professionally pruning them so that they’ll grow strong and well shaped.
Our plants are delivered overnight
Your plants are sent to you fresh from the field in our plastic free box that’s specially designed to hold them tight, then securely delivered by specialist plant couriers - straight from the grower to your garden within 24 hours.
We're here to help at every step
We want your plants to have a long and healthy life. Expect easy-to-follow grow guides and videos devised by our team of experts.
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All of our plants are grown in specialist nurseries with the highest standards of plant care and sustainability. We guarantee you'll love them as much as we do! Don't just take our word for it - we've got thousands of great reviews on Trustpilot.
When will I get my plants?
The delivery timescale for each plant is on the web page (near the 'add to basket's button). You'll receive a dispatch email with an exact delivery date once your plants are on their way, so you can get the garden ready.
How will my plants be packed and delivered?
We send all of our orders through a courier network designed to handle plants. Specialist equipment ensures that no plants will be damaged during the packing process and every order is carefully finished and checked by plant-loving humans. Your plants will arrive in the most sustainable packaging possible with minimal to no plastic used.
Where do you deliver?
We deliver to anywhere in Mainland UK for our standard delivery cost. We are able to deliver most plants to Highlands and non UK mainland however this will be at an additional cost. This will be calculated at the checkout. Please note, deliveries to these locations will take longer. Unfortunately, we are not able to deliver to Northern Ireland at present.
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What customers say about us
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Excellent delivery and service
Well, the delivery was spot on, the tree looks healthy enough for a sleeping plant, although at the moment most of the branches are on one side of the trunk which in itself is bent banana-style. quite wonky. One can only hope that it grows into a fruitful plant with some character?
30 January
Nice sized tree in good condition
Time will tell on the quality of the product (bare-root apple trees), but the stems that arrived seemed in great condition and very well packaged so no damage in transit. Looking forward to Spring!
Ange
Appears v healthy
Very happy with purchase
Ms Arlene Bocking
Lovely tree
So happy with my purchase of my Braeburn Hillwell apple tree from Roots Plants. It arrived promptly, well packaged and in a good, healthy condition. I soaked it for an hour before planting and it's doing well. Looking forward to our home grown apples, in time.
Ms Arlene Bocking
It has picked up now and is growing well
It arrived in a heat wave and looked a little bit sorry for itself when planted out but it has picked up now and is growing well.
David Osborne
Good service all round
Arrived on time as the seller said it would and the courier gave me a time slot to track my parcel. It came well packaged and was of good quality for this time of year. It looks a good and healthy tree and will be planted up in a few weeks after the ground has been prepared. I’m pleased with my purchase.
Helen