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Title: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
Post by: Karen Atkinson on September 22, 2010, 21:35:19

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

Title: Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
Post by: lottie lou on September 22, 2010, 21:39:47

I never have and it has survived okay.

Title: Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
Post by: artichoke on 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.

Title: Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
Post by: earlypea on September 24, 2010, 07:46:47

Mine lived right through the big freeze last year without.

Title: Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
Post by: saddad on 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...  :-\

Title: Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
Post by: Digeroo on 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.

Title: Re: will my ruby/swiss chard be ok during winter or shall I protect?
Post by: saddad on 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...  :)