Plant Guide
Chard : Italian Silver Rib
Favorite of Italian cooks
Exclusive. Selected by discerning Italian cooks for clean mellow flavor, handsome vigorous plants have wide, silvery mid-ribs & crinkly, broad, deep green leaves. Great spinach alternative.
Chenopodiaceae Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla
Transplant Outdoors
If Fall cold weather threatens, you could protect them with cloches or row covers.
Water well directly after transplanting to ensure proper root establishment.
If cold weather threatens, you could protect them with cloches or row covers.
Set out the transplants on the last frost date. Water well directly after transplanting to ensure proper root establishment.
Chard is one of the most shade tolerant of common crops, so can be grown underneath taller crops (in hot climates it may even benefit from this). In cool climates it should have full sun for maximum production of foliage.
Chard will germinate at 40 degrees but it will take 6 weeks. A more practical temperature for planting outdoors is 50 degrees.
Spacing
6.0"-12.0", 4 plants per sq ftChard grows fast and gets quite large. Space the plants 6" to 12" apart, depending upon the fertility of the soil and the growing method. If the plants are too crowded they will sometimes bolt prematurely.
Transplant Outdoors
9-10 weeks before FFDIf Fall cold weather threatens, you could protect them with cloches or row covers.
Water well directly after transplanting to ensure proper root establishment.
Transplant Outdoors
on LFDIf cold weather threatens, you could protect them with cloches or row covers.
Set out the transplants on the last frost date. Water well directly after transplanting to ensure proper root establishment.
