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The following excerpt on heirloom beet varieties and chard varieties was taken from chapter 8, “Beets and Chard.” To locate mail order companies that carry these heirloom artichoke varieties ...
Chard seeds will keep for at least three years, and often longer. If you plant a 10-foot row each year, a packet of seeds will last you three years and bear 10 to 12 pounds of chard each season ...
Swiss chard is the beginner-friendly veggie your garden needs. Here’s how to plant, grow, and harvest it with ease. Bright, ...
Territorial sells ‘Golden Chard Organic,’ with color that intensifies as leaves mature. Johnny’s Selected Seeds of Albion, Maine, sells ‘Golden Sunrise,’ which has golden orange leaf ...
Organic Seed Alliance has also helped form the Family Farmers Seed Cooperative, a national organization, also aided by a federal Department of Agriculture grant. With the Peninsula being part of the ...
Organic seed farmers say genetically engineered plantings make them vulnerable. Hardy says in May, he was forced to destroy a crop of organic chard on a quarter-acre field near Syngenta's after a ...
Step 2: Sow Seeds. Sow Swiss chard seeds at a depth of ½ to 1 inch, spacing 2 to 6 inches apart. If growing in rows, leave 12 to 18 inches in between the rows. Step 2: Thin Seedlings.
A federal judge today said farmers can harvest their genetically engineered sugar beets this year, ruling the economic impact too great and that environmental groups waited too long to request ...
Q:I enjoyed your article explaining the ugly blotches on my chard ("How to rescue chard from pests" Aug. 14). My first question is: What is row cover? Also why did you start the chard seed indoors ...