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Legend
- Start Indoors
- Transplant
- Start Outdoors
- Care
- Harvest
- Succession Plant
Favorite of Italian cooks
A long-time favorite of Italian cooks for its flavor and substance, this fine variety has wide, crisp, silvery-white midribs and crinkled, shiny green leaves. These large-framed, handsome plants grow easily and vigorously from spring through late fall. Heirloom Silver Rib produces an abundance of big succulent leaves with sweet crunchy stalks to enjoy as mild, mellow-tasting greens. You'll find it consistently delicious simply steamed with fresh lemon, sauted with aromatics or added to stir fries, soups, and casseroles.
Chenopodiaceae Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla
This is an example of the timeline you would see based on your growing conditions.
Flea Beetle
These tiny jumping beetles chew little holes in the leaves of the Brassica crops and their relatives. Generally you can ignore them because their damage is generally minimal and plants will usually grow out of it (a foliar feed may help them to recover). Young plants with little leaf area sometimes suffer badly and seedlings occasionally die.
Control
One suggested remedy is to move a grease covered board along the row of plants, the idea being to catch the beetles as they jump. If they are really bad you could try a botanical insecticide.
Norman E. Rees, USDA Agricultural Research Service - Retired, Bugwood.org
Last Frost Date (LFD) refers to the approximate date of the last killing frost of spring.
Example first frost date on April 08.
First Frost Date (FFD) refers to the approximate date of the first killing frost of winter.
Example first frost date on November 01.
