There is something - no matter how many years I garden, that I just love seeing other gardeners in their garden talking about very simple things like this. It’s calming, it’s refreshing. Simple tours on progress & thoughts. Not enough garden shows out there that do that.
I love that you had dirt on your hands. In a lot of gardener videos I see, their hands look like they have never touched dirt. Gardeners should have dirty hands. I'm a dirty hands snob. Lol 😀
I wear gloves as much as possible to protect my hands/nails. Especially if dealing with bagged soil/compost, who knows what's in it. I've read that what is absorbed through your skin gets into your blood stream faster than what you eat!
Beautiful AND delicious, and so easy to grow. Last year was my first year growing swiss chard, it kept growing throughout the cold Ohio weather, so I let one plant go to seed this year to save the seeds. BUT I didn't even need to plant any because the seeds that dropped germinated and grew, now I have a whole bed of swiss chard. Yum!✌🏼💜🙏🏼💪🏼🌱🌱🌱
Hi Luke. I love swiss chard. I have swiss chard in my garden ALL year long in Cape town. All the different colors. My only enemy is snales/slugs but a quick beer trap sorts that out quickly. So easy to grow and versatile in the kitchen.
@@skullykittie9889 be patient. I found that they take long to get to a point where you can start to harvest but when you get there, boy do they keep on giving. They dont like to be very hot they look so sad at the end of a hot summers day but purk up quickly after a good watering. plant them in semi shade (in summer) or when in full sun, cover with shade cloth. Like i said in my original comment, keep an eye out for snails, especially when they are young, else they will eat the whole seedling.... Good luck and enjoy
It’s so crazy I have been watching you ever since you first started a long long time ago . Some TH-camrs come and go after a few years but you stayed in there. God bless .
I am 2.5 hours east of Luke, other side of Lake Huron in Canada. My chard was decimated by leaf miner anywhere in my garden, even in grown in containers on my deck until I tried interplanting. Now I plant Rainbow Lights chard at the foot of my cordoned indeterminate tomatoes with a row of basil and chives to surround them. I let the basil and chives flower for the bees, beauty and aroma. My chard is 100% leaf miner free and very prolific. After the basil and chives have faded and more space opens up from pruning the tomatoes, I fill in the gaps with Fordhook Giant Chard.
Swiss chard is so gorgeous. I’ve got a small patch growing in a container and a Ford hook giant in another. Very beautiful and very productive. Tastes so good after it freezers. Last year we ate it raw each time we went outside just because it was so sweet
Swiss chard is my favorite garden vegetable. I even have my husband liking (tolerating) it. I plant it as soon as possible in the spring and try to keep it going until fall.
We call it Silverbeet here in NZ and anybody who has a vege garden always has it growing here - as far back as I can remember. Its is super easy to grow and as you say, beautiful -lush with all kinds of colours. It doesnt go to seed the way spinach does, as soon as it gets hot, and self seeds easily. I chop it up and put it in many different dishes. I do find, however, that some of the green and white varieties, taste sweeter than the rainbow variety. Darn it!! i"m growing a new variety here, called Peppermint which has bright pink stems at the base, fading to white and then soft green leaves. I'm hoping i"ll get sweetness and colour together. They are all fantastic though and my garden is NEVER without Silverbeet. Thanks for bringing it into the spotlight - much deserved.
My Fordhook Giant lived up to it's name - some stems were nearly 4 inches wide! I had some ruby chard too that GLOWED hot pink when the morning sun hit it - SUCH a joy, and so delicious. And healthy too. Love your enthusiasm Luke - it's wonderful to see and sorely needed. Cheers!
I live in England and my Swiss charts are still look fantastic in Nov. Part from daily cooking, I made some dry vegetables from it, plant a lot for ornamental purpose, my chickens love the leaves. Thanks Luke for your sharing.
I too fell in love with these beauties in such a way that i am planning to grow these plants instead of some flowers if I can receive the seeds of good varieties. They are just a miracle, both food and ornamental. The one that has dark redy- magenta leaves with orange stems is hypnotizing me
I love all the colors and variations of Swiss chard also and the taste as well. I usually slice, blanch and freeze a portion of them in meal sized ziploc baggies.
Oh, I LOVE growing Swiss chard. But now I have to buy the purple leafed varieties. I don’t know how those have escaped my attention, they are gorgeous. In my garden, those spring started Swiss chard plants last all the way until the following spring when I’m planting out my new starts. Both I and the chickens enjoy snacking on them all year long.😋
I LOVE Swiss Chard! We never ate it until I grew it! Totally worth it! Our Vulcan and Magenta Swiss Chard leaves went from green to deep purple after the frost kissed it. Incredible!
I grow Swiss Chard all year round in Southern Australia. Very hardy plant, easy to grow, always bounces back, and I get a consistent crop every month of the year. I get all colours as well. When it is smaller it is more lettuce like, let it grow and it is more spinach like. I steam some up often with an egg and mushroom omelette served over some lightly baked muffins. Excellent and filling weekend breakfast.
Gorgeous! Just gorgeous! I’m loving the colors of your Swiss chard, especially the ombré orange. I ordered some MIGardener Swiss chard and rhubarb seeds a couple of months ago, and now that Texas weather is mild and pleasant, it’s time to plant them. I’m stoked!!
@@FloridaGirl- Fall in the south is great for gardening, isn’t it?! Our summers are so harsh, the plants are loving this mild weather. Everything is producing these days 😀
I have always been rather fond of all of the dark red leaved varieties. apart form the yumminess i just find the deep coloring of the leaves with those bright stems so aesthetically pleasing!
I had predatory wasps move into my garden this summer and they helped so much with the horned worms I didn't really have to worry about them after that.
Yes. We didn't ever have tomato hornworms until we spent 3 years in IL ( are from NW Wisconsin and am back here now ) , ditto with the Japanese beetles btw. . So, we found out right away about leaving the hornworms with the white wasp eggs on them, live to hatch out and kill the worms. I did have hubby take them to the tree-line/brushy edge of the yard for me tho. Figured they didn't need to keep eating my tomato leaves while they waited to die. Anyways, by my 3rd & final season there, I only saw evidence of hornworms on 2 of my tomato plants.
While I don't disagree with you on Swiss Chard being a beautiful vegetable, but... the most beautiful in the garden? Above Nasturtiums? Above any other edible flowers? hehehe... it's quite a bold statement, Luke! I am a fan of Swiss Chard, too, for their beautiful, vibrant colors, as well as how delicious they are! I don't think they receive enough recognition and appreciation, and so I thank you for changing that!
Hi Luke. I love how enamored you are with Swiss Chard. I thought it was just me who went outside & admired its beauty. It adds so much texture, color, & movement to the garden. I would actually consider it to be ornamental. The flavor is just as great, too. It has even brought me to eat a salad a day, & although I do like veggies, I rarely ate salads. By the way, there is also a Midnight Swiss Chard that is a deep, glossy purple. It's gorgeous. I have only been able to find it from one site, though, & they're sold out. Anyhow, thanks for introducing me to it, the Rainbow Swiss is doing great in my raised bed, zone 7a.
When I lived in Michigan. The gold finches would eat some of my swiss chard too! Believe it or not! I didn’t mind though. Now I’m in FL, and just seeded mine now that it’s cooled off! Everything is opposite here in growing veggies! Yay from now thru at least April! Your chard is gorgeous! 🤗
Great video Luke...the burgundy leafed variety looks amazing! I always grow Fordhook but also grew a variety call Kaleidescope this year that was multi coloured and very beautiful! Still eating it and heading out to pick some right now for dinner! Thanks for doing the video! Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
I live in south australia . Rural. I have not spotted moths or leaf minors or wasps. I have not seen leaf minors. No slugs. No snails..... i think in summer our garden enemy will be ants 46 degree heat and blowflys! I have chosen to plant alot in nice pots so i can drag things in the shade..... like the channel said.... everything feels like an exeriment and i just love to watch my plants grow. 😁
I’ve got a patch of yellow Swiss chard that I planted in Autumn 2018. It keeps growing back no matter how many times I trim the leaves off. Buy once buy right!
I grew some giant swiss chard last year. The leaves were tougher and did not have the flavor of the ford hook which is my favorite to eat. But I got some of the rainbow to grow. Now I want to try some of the deep purple which are gorgeous. Love my chard.
I absolutely adore swiss chard, the best tasting green by far to me. If u hate Kale and like spinach so so, and like beet greens at all, you'll love swiss chard. ( I do tolerate Kale & like beet greens a lot ). Chard is most similar to beet greens , but still it's own flavor. Chard , unlike kale ( in my limited experience ) cooks & tastes well in a stove top dish such as stir fry or omelettes. My kale I chop up and freeze ( raw, no blanching ) in used yogurt containers stuffed full of it and put in deep freezer. Lasts well for over a year just fine. I mostly just add it to stews , for added greens in diet. Would probably work for chard and other greens, I just haven't had extra of those yet, since I started doing this. I have chard in 2 smaller pots/planters which I brought inside for the winter I'm still using out of for now.
I agree with you on your statement about chard. They are one of the prettiest garden veggies around. However I find a tomato and squash full of fruit beautiful too. I also love the look of my asparagus in the summer too. They almost look like they can be used as a privacy hedge.
It's nice when people talk about things they're passionate about. Most people i know aren't into gardening and don't get it. Im growing the rainbow lights kind of swiss chard. I have a yellow one, a red one and the standard. Planted more seeds to see what I get
We too had leaf miners in the chard and beets that ruined the leaf crop as well as stunting the beets. This year I planted them in a low hoop house with netting and they're gorgeous! Not to mention how perfect the brassicas are with no cabbage butterfly larvae to chew them up. Cheaper than the wasps by far, so I'm doing that every year from now on. Thanks for all you do!
My Black Pearl Pepper plants are a awesome colorful contrast in my garden. Th black pearl peppers have a purple flower instead of white pepper flower. The leaves stalk and stems are black, and the peppers look just like black pearls. You can see ur reflection in them. They turn red as the ripen, of course. I been only growing them for 3 years. They’re a perennial ornamental pepper plant. I been sharing my seeds, and plants with anyone who lost a loved one to covid. I renamed them “Mourning Peppers”.
Oh cool! I always thought it was pretty but never really knew how it was eaten, I’ll have to give this a try if it’s basically just used the same as spinach.
In know this is late, but I just read in a companion planting book that another way to BATTLE LEAFMINERS is to plant a TRAP CROP of radishes or lamb's-quarter then destroy the crop once you see the leafminer damage on those plants. I have never tried it myself but thought it might be worth mentioning! Good Luck!
It’s like beautiful graffiti❣️😻🥬✨ Orange pink variegated stem with deep purple leaves just blew me away!: )) But I’d like to try a whole mixed bed like shown by you as it’s absolutely amaZing!!*:p
My introduction to Swiss Chard came from buying a package of mixed salad green seeds. Fell in love with their beauty and taste immediately. Every time a leaf is cut a new baby one appears within a day or so. Since we prune them prematurely specifically for salads, had no idea they could grow as enormous as in this video. I don't know the variety. Perhaps Ruby Red. Steams are bright red. Leaves change from a bright light green to a darker green as they grow bigger. I would love to try the orange and purple one shown in this video. What variety is it? About a week ago, I stopped at your online store to buy some seeds to include Swiss Chard. Since there were none of any kind, I went to a different supplier. Their orange stems have green leaves not purple ones.
Iowa Zone 5a. I like the variety of colors, but my favorite is the old reliable Fordhook Giant. It seems to give me more consistent yields and is a tad more resilient than the colorful varieties. That's just an impression, not a scientific study. So far this year we've had 15 harvests. It's late October, and we'll get one more before the snows. Easy to grow. Doesn't need a lot of TLC. If you haven't tried it, you're missing out.
I planted some free Swiss chard seeds last spring. It is the only thing that survived the frost ,planted then. I actually planted it to be pretty because I have never eaten it.
Growing some in an AeroGarden right now in the middle of winter as an experiment. I'll have to remember to only use 1 seed per grow sponge next time. Using 2 seeds was overkill, two plants stunting each other's growth.
Luke, I love your channel and your enthusiasm! I’m in Melbourne, Australia. My Swiss chard has gone ballistic and bolted. I’m waiting for it to dry out so I can harvest the seed. It seems to be taking ages (possibly because we keep getting rain?). Does anyone know how much longer it should take? It grew really well but I didn’t use all of it so I’ll need to make an effort to eat more next season.
Okra can be pretty, as far as edible plants go... and as far as pests go, for anything I actually care about, I always plant 3-4 varieties of each species, as I find pests are drawn to one more than the rest, so then end up becoming sacrificial.
I’m 100% there with you when it comes to color in the garden, it brings so much happiness and peace, honestly. Spinach is one of my favorite vegetables, so I may like Swiss Chard. What is the flavor profile like? I grew arugula last year and while it had a good initial flavor, I found it had a real bitter after taste. I didn’t enjoy it raw but I liked it in soups and I also roasted it in a pan with chicken and it was good that way. Sorry to hear the predatory wasps didn’t work out. The thing is, if you don’t have an ideal habitat for them to live in, they just fly away once they’ve eaten all the insects.
I grew chard for the first time this year and found it an excellent substitute for spinach. If anything, it has a milder flavor. I eat it boiled or steamed, don't really prefer it as a raw green, although I know other people that do. The stems are kind of stringy when raw, but soften up right away when cooked and add a nice juicy bit of chew when cooked together with the greens. It also has an advantage over spinach in that it grows all season without bolting, right into late fall/early winter - I'm in Nebraska where we've already had nighttime lows in the mid-20's and the chard is still going strong!
I’m a Swiss Chard Junkie! This video made me salivate! I have struggles with aphids while trying to grow my Swiss chard here in the northwest. I am in Portland Oregon to be exact. Do you have any ideas?
There is something - no matter how many years I garden, that I just love seeing other gardeners in their garden talking about very simple things like this. It’s calming, it’s refreshing. Simple tours on progress & thoughts. Not enough garden shows out there that do that.
His garden tours are always refreshing! I try to make garden videos in my own style, very inspired by MIgardener and suburban homestead.
Why haven't you posted videos of your garden?
I love that you had dirt on your hands. In a lot of gardener videos I see, their hands look like they have never touched dirt. Gardeners should have dirty hands. I'm a dirty hands snob. Lol 😀
I wear gloves as much as possible to protect my hands/nails. Especially if dealing with bagged soil/compost, who knows what's in it. I've read that what is absorbed through your skin gets into your blood stream faster than what you eat!
They are all a feast for the eyes! But the orange stalk with deep burgundy leaves is so gorgeous it took my breath away.
This was my favorite too.
Beautiful AND delicious, and so easy to grow. Last year was my first year growing swiss chard, it kept growing throughout the cold Ohio weather, so I let one plant go to seed this year to save the seeds. BUT I didn't even need to plant any because the seeds that dropped germinated and grew, now I have a whole bed of swiss chard. Yum!✌🏼💜🙏🏼💪🏼🌱🌱🌱
Hi Luke. I love swiss chard. I have swiss chard in my garden ALL year long in Cape town. All the different colors. My only enemy is snales/slugs but a quick beer trap sorts that out quickly. So easy to grow and versatile in the kitchen.
Any tips for a first time chard grower?
@@skullykittie9889 be patient. I found that they take long to get to a point where you can start to harvest but when you get there, boy do they keep on giving. They dont like to be very hot they look so sad at the end of a hot summers day but purk up quickly after a good watering. plant them in semi shade (in summer) or when in full sun, cover with shade cloth. Like i said in my original comment, keep an eye out for snails, especially when they are young, else they will eat the whole seedling.... Good luck and enjoy
It’s so crazy I have been watching you ever since you first started a long long time ago .
Some TH-camrs come and go after a few years but you stayed in there.
God bless .
I am 2.5 hours east of Luke, other side of Lake Huron in Canada. My chard was decimated by leaf miner anywhere in my garden, even in grown in containers on my deck until I tried interplanting. Now I plant Rainbow Lights chard at the foot of my cordoned indeterminate tomatoes with a row of basil and chives to surround them. I let the basil and chives flower for the bees, beauty and aroma. My chard is 100% leaf miner free and very prolific. After the basil and chives have faded and more space opens up from pruning the tomatoes, I fill in the gaps with Fordhook Giant Chard.
Swiss Chard is so easy to grow and it keeps growing through the heat of summer and the fall frosts.
Swiss chard is so gorgeous. I’ve got a small patch growing in a container and a Ford hook giant in another. Very beautiful and very productive. Tastes so good after it freezers. Last year we ate it raw each time we went outside just because it was so sweet
Swiss chard is my favorite garden vegetable. I even have my husband liking (tolerating) it. I plant it as soon as possible in the spring and try to keep it going until fall.
This was very educational. Yes! I can definitely see how this video can teach me about swiss chard and how to grow and harvest them.
Good morning from Trinidad and Tobago!
We call it Silverbeet here in NZ and anybody who has a vege garden always has it growing here - as far back as I can remember. Its is super easy to grow and as you say, beautiful -lush with all kinds of colours. It doesnt go to seed the way spinach does, as soon as it gets hot, and self seeds easily. I chop it up and put it in many different dishes. I do find, however, that some of the green and white varieties, taste sweeter than the rainbow variety. Darn it!! i"m growing a new variety here, called Peppermint which has bright pink stems at the base, fading to white and then soft green leaves. I'm hoping i"ll get sweetness and colour together. They are all fantastic though and my garden is NEVER without Silverbeet. Thanks for bringing it into the spotlight - much deserved.
My Fordhook Giant lived up to it's name - some stems were nearly 4 inches wide! I had some ruby chard too that GLOWED hot pink when the morning sun hit it - SUCH a joy, and so delicious. And healthy too. Love your enthusiasm Luke - it's wonderful to see and sorely needed. Cheers!
The vast variety makes me think they may be some type of hybrid or more. Do you know if they grow like that as heirloom too?
I live in England and my Swiss charts are still look fantastic in Nov. Part from daily cooking, I made some dry vegetables from it, plant a lot for ornamental purpose, my chickens love the leaves. Thanks Luke for your sharing.
I just love this is just a "Look at my sick chard" video.
I too fell in love with these beauties in such a way that i am planning to grow these plants instead of some flowers if I can receive the seeds of good varieties. They are just a miracle, both food and ornamental. The one that has dark redy- magenta leaves with orange stems is hypnotizing me
I love all the colors and variations of Swiss chard also and the taste as well. I usually slice, blanch and freeze a portion of them in meal sized ziploc baggies.
I always have Swiss Chard growing and also just love seeing its beautiful colours in my garden. Cooking the colourful stems brightens up any dish. 👍
Oh, I LOVE growing Swiss chard. But now I have to buy the purple leafed varieties. I don’t know how those have escaped my attention, they are gorgeous. In my garden, those spring started Swiss chard plants last all the way until the following spring when I’m planting out my new starts. Both I and the chickens enjoy snacking on them all year long.😋
Swiss chard is always in my garden love it. Grew some of the rainbow this year beautiful and tastes great..
I LOVE Swiss Chard! We never ate it until I grew it! Totally worth it! Our Vulcan and Magenta Swiss Chard leaves went from green to deep purple after the frost kissed it. Incredible!
I grow Swiss Chard all year round in Southern Australia. Very hardy plant, easy to grow, always bounces back, and I get a consistent crop every month of the year. I get all colours as well. When it is smaller it is more lettuce like, let it grow and it is more spinach like. I steam some up often with an egg and mushroom omelette served over some lightly baked muffins. Excellent and filling weekend breakfast.
Gorgeous! Just gorgeous! I’m loving the colors of your Swiss chard, especially the ombré orange. I ordered some MIGardener Swiss chard and rhubarb seeds a couple of months ago, and now that Texas weather is mild and pleasant, it’s time to plant them. I’m stoked!!
I just seeded mine 2 days ago. 🤗
@@FloridaGirl- Fall in the south is great for gardening, isn’t it?! Our summers are so harsh, the plants are loving this mild weather. Everything is producing these days 😀
@@VaultDwellerGal YAY winter! 👍 It’s awesome out!
Swiss chard beats spinach by a mile, IMO. I actually like the stems the best.
I have always been rather fond of all of the dark red leaved varieties. apart form the yumminess i just find the deep coloring of the leaves with those bright stems so aesthetically pleasing!
I had predatory wasps move into my garden this summer and they helped so much with the horned worms I didn't really have to worry about them after that.
Yes. We didn't ever have tomato hornworms until we spent 3 years in IL ( are from NW Wisconsin and am back here now ) , ditto with the Japanese beetles btw. . So, we found out right away about leaving the hornworms with the white wasp eggs on them, live to hatch out and kill the worms. I did have hubby take them to the tree-line/brushy edge of the yard for me tho. Figured they didn't need to keep eating my tomato leaves while they waited to die. Anyways, by my 3rd & final season there, I only saw evidence of hornworms on 2 of my tomato plants.
Thanks for your videos.
While I don't disagree with you on Swiss Chard being a beautiful vegetable, but... the most beautiful in the garden? Above Nasturtiums? Above any other edible flowers? hehehe... it's quite a bold statement, Luke! I am a fan of Swiss Chard, too, for their beautiful, vibrant colors, as well as how delicious they are! I don't think they receive enough recognition and appreciation, and so I thank you for changing that!
Just gorgeous! Thank you! Especially like the purple leaf with orange stem. Wow!
They are beautiful!
Obsessed with this video concept
Wow beautiful you have captured i love this kind of capturing others don't do that..
Those are beautiful! 🙂
I'm growing chard for the first time and it does really brighten up the garden and the dinner plate.
Blessings! 💜
Rainbow Lights chard is so beautiful and tasty! My favorite ever.
I’ve had so much success using MI Gardner seeds! Look forward to ordering Swiss chard from you in the spring!! 🙌🏻
Great energy! I can't wait for my swiss chard go mature!
Hi Luke. I love how enamored you are with Swiss Chard. I thought it was just me who went outside & admired its beauty. It adds so much texture, color, & movement to the garden. I would actually consider it to be ornamental. The flavor is just as great, too. It has even brought me to eat a salad a day, & although I do like veggies, I rarely ate salads. By the way, there is also a Midnight Swiss Chard that is a deep, glossy purple. It's gorgeous. I have only been able to find it from one site, though, & they're sold out. Anyhow, thanks for introducing me to it, the Rainbow Swiss is doing great in my raised bed, zone 7a.
Another great video. Enjoy all your content.
Best of all . . . They taste great!
Agree on the Chard! Love the stuff been growing it for years
When I lived in Michigan. The gold finches would eat some of my swiss chard too! Believe it or not! I didn’t mind though. Now I’m in FL, and just seeded mine now that it’s cooled off! Everything is opposite here in growing veggies! Yay from now thru at least April! Your chard is gorgeous! 🤗
Thanks. Just planted some down in Texas.
Thanks 😊🙏 for the great video first year growing in am in awww at your garden 😀
Great video Luke...the burgundy leafed variety looks amazing!
I always grow Fordhook but also grew a variety call Kaleidescope this year that was multi coloured and very beautiful! Still eating it and heading out to pick some right now for dinner!
Thanks for doing the video!
Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
I live in south australia . Rural. I have not spotted moths or leaf minors or wasps. I have not seen leaf minors. No slugs. No snails..... i think in summer our garden enemy will be ants 46 degree heat and blowflys! I have chosen to plant alot in nice pots so i can drag things in the shade..... like the channel said.... everything feels like an exeriment and i just love to watch my plants grow. 😁
I am fairly new to your channel, but am becoming addicted to all your wealth of info!!! Thx for helping beginner gardeners like me!!!!!
I bought some of this a month ago but didn’t know its name. It was so pretty. I harvested a few last night before it froze.
I agree! I’m absolutely in love with my rainbow chard🥰
I agree Luke swiss Chard Is wonderful tasting and Its so beautiful looking I am growing the pinky Orange color
So pretty!
Such a beautiful crop, sometimes I hate to harvest them.
Hands down, the red leaf and orange stem. Loved the tour. I have Chard in my garden year round. It's so much easier than spinach.
I’ve got a patch of yellow Swiss chard that I planted in Autumn 2018. It keeps growing back no matter how many times I trim the leaves off. Buy once buy right!
I love Swiss chard! If I could send you a pic of how large they grew. So beautiful, and just to think they grow back. Just beautiful!!!
I grew some giant swiss chard last year. The leaves were tougher and did not have the flavor of the ford hook which is my favorite to eat. But I got some of the rainbow to grow. Now I want to try some of the deep purple which are gorgeous. Love my chard.
Our chard grows year round.:)
Just Amazing ❤️
I absolutely adore swiss chard, the best tasting green by far to me. If u hate Kale and like spinach so so, and like beet greens at all, you'll love swiss chard. ( I do tolerate Kale & like beet greens a lot ). Chard is most similar to beet greens , but still it's own flavor. Chard , unlike kale ( in my limited experience ) cooks & tastes well in a stove top dish such as stir fry or omelettes. My kale I chop up and freeze ( raw, no blanching ) in used yogurt containers stuffed full of it and put in deep freezer. Lasts well for over a year just fine. I mostly just add it to stews , for added greens in diet. Would probably work for chard and other greens, I just haven't had extra of those yet, since I started doing this. I have chard in 2 smaller pots/planters which I brought inside for the winter I'm still using out of for now.
Grasshopper did a number on my Swiss chard and kale
Swiss chard and Chinese mustard! So pretty with some blue kale tucked in.
Swiss Chard wasn’t on my list to grow next year but it sure is now! I’ve got new raised beds and just the spot!! I love the orange/burgundy!!!
Excellent!!
impressive colors!
Just started my swiss chard a few weeks ago here in CA since its Finally cooled down. Hopefully we'll have some for Christmas!
I agree with you on your statement about chard. They are one of the prettiest garden veggies around. However I find a tomato and squash full of fruit beautiful too. I also love the look of my asparagus in the summer too. They almost look like they can be used as a privacy hedge.
It's nice when people talk about things they're passionate about. Most people i know aren't into gardening and don't get it. Im growing the rainbow lights kind of swiss chard. I have a yellow one, a red one and the standard. Planted more seeds to see what I get
Good stuff! Think you convinced me to dedicate a small bed to chard, just gotta position as to not get too much sun here in East TN.
grow a patch every year....my favorite green to eat..have tried most kinds, love the rainbow the best
We too had leaf miners in the chard and beets that ruined the leaf crop as well as stunting the beets. This year I planted them in a low hoop house with netting and they're gorgeous! Not to mention how perfect the brassicas are with no cabbage butterfly larvae to chew them up. Cheaper than the wasps by far, so I'm doing that every year from now on. Thanks for all you do!
This what I did too with hoola hoops. Works perfectly, huh. Wtg.
Swiss chard is one of my staples in the garden.
And yes, very beautiful, and delicious.
My Black Pearl Pepper plants are a awesome colorful contrast in my garden. Th black pearl peppers have a purple flower instead of white pepper flower. The leaves stalk and stems are black, and the peppers look just like black pearls. You can see ur reflection in them. They turn red as the ripen, of course.
I been only growing them for 3 years. They’re a perennial ornamental pepper plant. I been sharing my seeds, and plants with anyone who lost a loved one to covid. I renamed them “Mourning Peppers”.
"The garden in the sky" 🌻😆 I'm stealing that one.
I've always wondered where garden pests go when it gets cold.
Swiss chard is both beautiful and delicious
Oh cool! I always thought it was pretty but never really knew how it was eaten, I’ll have to give this a try if it’s basically just used the same as spinach.
In know this is late, but I just read in a companion planting book that another way to BATTLE LEAFMINERS is to plant a TRAP CROP of radishes or lamb's-quarter then destroy the crop once you see the leafminer damage on those plants. I have never tried it myself but thought it might be worth mentioning! Good Luck!
It’s like beautiful graffiti❣️😻🥬✨
Orange pink variegated stem with deep purple leaves just blew me away!: ))
But I’d like to try a whole mixed bed like shown by you as it’s absolutely amaZing!!*:p
I’m over here in Clinton Township (Mi) first snow today- we let our Swiss chard and hearty kale grow thru winter 👍🏻
My introduction to Swiss Chard came from buying a package of mixed salad green seeds. Fell in love with their beauty and taste immediately. Every time a leaf is cut a new baby one appears within a day or so. Since we prune them prematurely specifically for salads, had no idea they could grow as enormous as in this video.
I don't know the variety. Perhaps Ruby Red. Steams are bright red. Leaves change from a bright light green to a darker green as they grow bigger. I would love to try the orange and purple one shown in this video. What variety is it?
About a week ago, I stopped at your online store to buy some seeds to include Swiss Chard. Since there were none of any kind, I went to a different supplier. Their orange stems have green leaves not purple ones.
Iowa Zone 5a. I like the variety of colors, but my favorite is the old reliable Fordhook Giant. It seems to give me more consistent yields and is a tad more resilient than the colorful varieties. That's just an impression, not a scientific study. So far this year we've had 15 harvests. It's late October, and we'll get one more before the snows. Easy to grow. Doesn't need a lot of TLC. If you haven't tried it, you're missing out.
I need some of these in my garden
I'm planning on growing next year. How about selling a combo pack with all those varieties. That would be great!
I don't eat swiss chard, but I still grow it because it is so beautiful!
I love them sauteed in butter and garlic. Don't overcook - you want to keep some texture and the brightness of their color.
Yellow is my favorite!
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That’s incredible looking, I always end up with holes all over the place from the moths
They are beautiful in my garden, too. They are hardy, also take cold weather very well. Hard to kill...
I planted some free Swiss chard seeds last spring. It is the only thing that survived the frost ,planted then. I actually planted it to be pretty because I have never eaten it.
Live Swiss Chard! Please carry that orange stalk purple leaf variety!
Growing some in an AeroGarden right now in the middle of winter as an experiment. I'll have to remember to only use 1 seed per grow sponge next time. Using 2 seeds was overkill, two plants stunting each other's growth.
Couldnt agree with you more! My fav in your tour is the orange stalk and purple leaf. PLEASE.....SEND....SEEDS....NOW!🤗
Planted for first time on 9/18. Its about 2 inches tall on 11/13. Not certain what I've done wrong.
Sunlight? I planted abt the same time with similar results in a garden that's more shade than sun. SC needs lots of sun.
Luke, I love your channel and your enthusiasm!
I’m in Melbourne, Australia. My Swiss chard has gone ballistic and bolted. I’m waiting for it to dry out so I can harvest the seed. It seems to be taking ages (possibly because we keep getting rain?). Does anyone know how much longer it should take?
It grew really well but I didn’t use all of it so I’ll need to make an effort to eat more next season.
I’m still trying to find that bull’s blood variety of Swiss chard, not beets, that a lady bred. It’s so rare. Great video as always.
Okra can be pretty, as far as edible plants go... and as far as pests go, for anything I actually care about, I always plant 3-4 varieties of each species, as I find pests are drawn to one more than the rest, so then end up becoming sacrificial.
Grow fordhook chard and you won't run out of leafy green. They grow to 3ft tall. One of the easiest vegetable to grow.
I’m 100% there with you when it comes to color in the garden, it brings so much happiness and peace, honestly. Spinach is one of my favorite vegetables, so I may like Swiss Chard. What is the flavor profile like? I grew arugula last year and while it had a good initial flavor, I found it had a real bitter after taste. I didn’t enjoy it raw but I liked it in soups and I also roasted it in a pan with chicken and it was good that way. Sorry to hear the predatory wasps didn’t work out. The thing is, if you don’t have an ideal habitat for them to live in, they just fly away once they’ve eaten all the insects.
I grew chard for the first time this year and found it an excellent substitute for spinach. If anything, it has a milder flavor. I eat it boiled or steamed, don't really prefer it as a raw green, although I know other people that do. The stems are kind of stringy when raw, but soften up right away when cooked and add a nice juicy bit of chew when cooked together with the greens. It also has an advantage over spinach in that it grows all season without bolting, right into late fall/early winter - I'm in Nebraska where we've already had nighttime lows in the mid-20's and the chard is still going strong!
@@jackhogston6119 Wow! That is great to hear. I appreciate all this detailed information. Looks like I am going to put this on my grow list. 😊
The burgundy with orange stems
I’m a Swiss Chard Junkie! This video made me salivate! I have struggles with aphids while trying to grow my Swiss chard here in the northwest. I am in Portland Oregon to be exact. Do you have any ideas?
Yes it is very pretty leaf formation. Indeed. Glad the wasp work for a few months. Sorry the leaf miner came back.