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'Bright Lights' Swiss Chard Plants

Taste the rainbow

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South Downs National Park

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'Bright Lights' Swiss Chard Plants Vegetables
'Bright Lights' Swiss Chard Plants Vegetables
'Bright Lights' Swiss Chard Plants Vegetables

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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

What To Expect

Supplied as:

Potted plant
Extra large plant in a 2L pot
Extra Large Plant in a 2L Pot x 2
Strip of 5 Plants
Young plants ready to pot on before planting out

Height on arrival:

Eventual height:

30-50cm
30-50cm

Eventual spread:

20-50cm
Spreads approximately 20-50cm.
20-50cm
Spreads approximately 20-50cm.
20-50cm
Spreads approximately 20-50cm.

Tasting notes:

Earthy and mild
Earthy and mild
Earthy and mild

Time to first crop:

Almost immediate
You can cut and harvest chard's outer leaves pretty much as soon as you plant it, provided that the plant has reached a height of roughly 5-10cm tall. Leave some inner leaves in place to protect the growing stems. For taller, more established chard plants, you can cut all the leaves in one go, so long as you cut approximately 5-10cm above the base to ensure regrowth. Your chard will provide you with harvestable leaves throughout summer and into autumn.
Almost immediate
You can cut and harvest chard's outer leaves pretty much as soon as you plant it, provided that the plant has reached a height of roughly 5-10cm tall. Leave some inner leaves in place to protect the growing stems. For taller, more established chard plants, you can cut all the leaves in one go, so long as you cut approximately 5-10cm above the base to ensure regrowth. Your chard will provide you with harvestable leaves throughout summer and into autumn.

Habit:

Clump forming
Each plant forms a clump of colourful stalks with tall leaves.
Clump forming
Each plant forms a clump of colourful stalks with tall leaves.
Clump forming
Each plant forms a clump of colourful stalks with tall leaves.

Hardiness:

Half hardy
H3 - 'Bright Lights' may be able to tolerate mild winters, however you might want to consider covering them with cloches to offer some additional cold protection, especially if you live in a colder part of the UK.
Half hardy
H3 - 'Bright Lights' may be able to tolerate mild winters, however you might want to consider covering them with cloches to offer some additional cold protection, especially if you live in a colder part of the UK.
Half hardy
H3 - 'Bright Lights' may be able to tolerate mild winters, however you might want to consider covering them with cloches to offer some additional cold protection, especially if you live in a colder part of the UK.

Uses:

Saute, stir fry or use in salads
Saute, stir fry or use in salads
Saute, stir fry or use in salads

Rootstock:

Spacing:

10-30cm
Plant 10-30cm apart to allow for spreading and to ensure that air can circulate well around the plants.
10-30cm
Plant 10-30cm apart to allow for spreading and to ensure that air can circulate well around the plants.

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!

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