Derald wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:


The five-colour sort looks nice but fordhook is reliable. You don't
need to succession plant it, if you keep pulling the outside leaves
it will keep growing new ones from the centre.
I'm familiar with the practice of "cropping" potherbs for an
extended and continuous harvest. The successions would be to determine
practical planting dates.

I have some here that has been going for
8 months. It will probably bolt to seed in the spring. You can
save the seeds.
So, what is the temperature range during chard's best growing
season? ...at planting time? I normally plant "cool season" veggies
when temperatures moderate somewhat and begin trending toward cooler
days, not necessarily according to the calendar.


Here it goes well in winter (mostly 4C to 18C) and spring and autumn (10C to
28C). In summer it grows OK but wilts in the heat (17C to 38C). It is also
frost hardy down to about -5C.

D