"l not -l" wrote:
>Kalmia wrote:
>
>> Swiss chard - where are you?
>
>Readily available here (STL suburb); but, only organic, which is pricey.

Chard and beets are the same plant, of which there are many versions
of each... chard is simply a beet plant that's been botanically
manipulated to not produce the bulbous root and instead to produce
more and larger leaves. Chard is far easier to grow than beets, with
growing beets unless one uses insecticides grubs will bore into the
roots. I grow chard, it produces a bumper crop with practically no
effort... just harvest the large outer leaves every few days and it
will keep producing all summer into fall. I don't use chemicals so I
get some insect holes in chard leaves but that doesn't destroy the
vegetable the way grubs destroy beet roots. A lot of stores don't
sell chard because the leaves are delicate with a rather short shelf
life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chard