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will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
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Karen Atkinson
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will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
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September 22, 2010, 21:35:19 »
Am in NE England - just planted out Swiss Chard - do I need to protect this?
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lottie lou
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Birmingham
Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
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September 22, 2010, 21:39:47 »
I never have and it has survived okay.
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artichoke
Hectare
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September 23, 2010, 22:20:56 »
I find that the plain green ones are the toughest. I love the coloured ones, but if anything dies, they do.
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earlypea
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September 24, 2010, 07:46:47 »
Mine lived right through the big freeze last year without.
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saddad
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Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
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September 24, 2010, 07:56:03 »
Some of the outer stems suffered a bit in the big freeze, but the central ones were still fine so I wouldn't bother... :-\
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Digeroo
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Cotswolds - Gravel - Alkaline
Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
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September 24, 2010, 08:13:44 »
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.
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saddad
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Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
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September 24, 2010, 08:25:39 »
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... :)
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