Direct sow Leaf Beet seed outdoors from March to August. Grow Leaf Beet in a well prepared, moist, fertile seedbed in full sun or partial shade. Sow seeds thinly at a depth of 1cm (½in) in drills 30cm apart. Thinning is not necessary if grown for salad leaves however if thinned to 7cm (3”)…

…tasting Red Chard with a mild, juicy flavour and, unlike many Red Chards, has no harsh aftertastes. With excellent tolerance to downy mildew, Leaf Beet 'Fantasy' is ideal for successional sowings through the spring and summer for a delicious crop of both ‘baby leaf’ and mature plants. Height: 50cm…

Swiss Chard Duo comprises one packet each of Bright Yellow and Rhubarb Chard. Swiss Chard Bright Yellow: Beautiful, broad golden stalks are a striking and colourful addition to the vegetable garden and the flower border or containers. The sweet stalks can be steamed as a vegetable or, when young,…

An exciting mixture offering coloured stems in classic red, white, pink, violet, green, gold, orange, yellow and some even striped! The wonderfully coloured stems of Swiss Chard Bright Lights are crowned with large foliage of green or bronze. Guaranteed lo brighten the vegetable patch or why not…

A colourful and tasty form of Swiss Chard with rich ruby-red leaf stalks and dark greeny purple foliage. Swiss Rhubarb Chard produces an abundance of large, tasty leaves and wide mid-ribs. Cook the succulent mid-rib like asparagus and serve with melted butter. Easier, and some consider tastier,…

A much more prolific form, Swiss Chard Lucullus produces an abundance of large, tasty leaves and wide, white mid-ribs. Cook the succulent mid-rib like asparagus and serve with melted butter. Easier, and some consider tastier, than spinach. If the plants of Swiss Chard Lucullus are left to flower,…

The beautiful, broad golden stalks of Swiss Chard Bright Yellow are a striking and colourful addition to the vegetable garden and the flower border or containers. The sweet stalks can be steamed as a vegetable or, when young, eaten raw in salads. Swiss Chard Bright Yellow is slow to bolting and has…

If your summer spinach is always running to seed before you manage to get a worthwhile crop off it, then Spinach Perpetual is the variety for you because it virtually never runs to seed in its first season, therefore very good on dry ground. Spinach Perpetual is succulent, prolific and very hardy, suitable…

…outside, Kahira is a flatter-rooted beet with smooth skin and a deep red, tender and flavoursome flesh. Roots grow mainly above the surface of the soil in a well-drained and sunny position and once harvested, will store well for use through the winter months. Beet can be stored by lifting the roots from…

Beta vulgaris var.conditiva. Easy to grow, Beet Cardeal produces golf ball sized, succulent baby beets with very sweet, smooth skinned rich red fleshed roots.

…which do not go woody. Beetroot Wodan has wonderful flavour when freshly cooked, either as 'baby' beet or as larger roots. Ideal for pickling. The young leaves can be used as an alternative to spinach. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection.

Customer Rating A rainbow mix of vibrant stem and leaf colours maintained as an Australian heirloom. An excellent value crop as the juicy, mild flavoured broad stems (chards), and the leaves (as spinach) can be eaten. Both are best steamed, but as baby leaves the stems and leaves can be added to…