Topic: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?

[Karen Atkinson]

Am in NE England - just planted out Swiss Chard - do I need to protect this?

[lottie lou]

I never have and it has survived okay.

[artichoke]

I find that the plain green ones are the toughest. I love the coloured ones, but if anything dies, they do.

[earlypea]

Mine lived right through the big freeze last year without.

[saddad]

Some of the outer stems suffered a bit in the big freeze, but the central ones were still fine so I wouldn't bother...  :-\

[Digeroo]

Thanks for this post folks, I was going to dig mine up.  I had not realised that it would survive through the winter.  Or is this only the freshly planted ones, mine have been on the go for months.

[saddad]

We crop April to May with Chard and Spinach beet..
That is to say a row established in April will crop through to the following May. A new row sown in April will be ready to crop when the old row is bolting at the end of May so you can have some all year round...  :)