On 3/11/2016 1:40 AM, Fran Farmer wrote:
On 5/03/2016 10:50 AM, George Shirley wrote:

Still have a good sized stand of chard that we will try to eat up before
it starts to wilt in the heat.

? Now that comment made me curious as mine has never wilted in heat so
long as the water is kept up to it. It's a staple in my garden year
round but especially in summer.

Most greens will wilt in the Texas heat Fran. Had chard in the front
flower bed, shaded from noon on, lasted two years but, eventually, it
finally died back. That flower bed is now overrun by Dwarf Barbadoes
Cherries and some creeping vine my lovely wife put in there, which will
have to be taken out soon. We get temps in the low one hundreds F
frequently during the summer. This week we've been hammered with rain,
band after band, still going on. Thinking of putting pontoons on the
vehicles just in case.

Here my Silver Beet (Swiss Chard in USian) powers through the summer.
We've now had weeks and weeks of mid and now late summer high
temperatures (above 86 F) and my Silver beet (chard) plants are still
putting out new leaves and powering along.
It's strange that the same plant has different names around the world,
used to run into that when we lived in Saudi Arabia. I guess they were
named by someone who was hoping to get rich on selling the seed.

The red wiggler worms are doing nicely and are carrying on with their
sex life as we seem to already have more worms (which is a good thing in
worm-a-culture). Gave them a shot of coffee grounds, tea leaves, and the
bags and filters too yesterday. Plus a little dose of corn meal, crushed
egg shells, and another batch of once frozen culls from the garden.
Might be able to take the great grands fishing before long.