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| 'Fordhook Giant' Swiss Chard |
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Misc. greens
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| Description: |
Compact plants with thick, dark-green, savoyed leaves with white veins and broad, white stems. Harvest baby greens in 25 days.
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| Days To Maturity: |
50-58
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| Rating Summary
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Overall:
(5.0 Stars) 
Taste:
(4.7 Stars)
Yield:
(5.0 Stars)
Ease/Reliability:
(4.8 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 6
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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, Aug 14, 2009
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Reviewer:
a_hermit from Tompkins County, NY
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Seeds from High Mowing Organic Seeds.
Excellent chard, a classic, large sweet leaves, fast growing, etc, nothing bad to say. If you haven't grown chard this is a great start. If you have, make it a regular in the garden. Cut it back mid-late summer for the fall crop, I sow direct in mid-April in central NY. |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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, Jun 23, 2009
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Reviewer:
FuwaFuwaUsagi from IL
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| If there is a better green I want to know what it ise. These plants are incredible. I start them indoors in the spring and plant out when still frosty. They take a while to get going but with amble water they are incredibly productive. In my cold climate zone 4b/5a I can keep them growing thru march by placing a clear plastic shower curtain over them and place 4 16 oz soda bottle 3/4 filled with water around them and then rotate in a couple of gallon of water each day. Just that keeps them from freezing and the keep going thru March when I prep the bed for the spring planting. Come summer the keep growing right through the 100 degree days without getting bitter.
Good flavor, great reliability, a cut, grow, and cut again plant with tremendous overall yield. |
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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, Dec 28, 2007
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daveydonuts from Washington County, NY
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| Incredibly easy to grow; just get the seedlings going and occasionally add water. The plants look impressive-I have seen them planted as ornamentals-if allowed to mature, but in my garden the leaves are usually harvested long before they get too big because they are tasty cooked with some oil and garlic. In my experience Chard has been incredibly resistant to both frost and pests. You can't harvest it from under snow like some Kale, but we have enjoyed it well into November from garden without protection from a cold frame. |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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, Mar 22, 2007
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Reviewer:
MikeM from ON
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| Easy to grow, prolific, inexpensive seed, tastes great. I've grown 100-200 ft each season for the past four years with excellent results. |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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, Jan 22, 2006
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Reviewer:
KentB from MN
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| Generally very productive, upright & clean. Very large ribs, large leaves moderately easy to clean. Does best started just a bit later than package recommends in our dry northern sand. |
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