Silverbeet

Silverbeet or Chard is a very popular green with highly nutritious and flavourful leaves and stalks. Like many leafy green vegetables, Silverbeet or Chard are rich in an array of minerals and vitamins; high levels of magnesium, calcium, vitamin K, iron, potassium, vitamin A, zinc, copper, vitamin C, dietary fibre, and vitamin E. It is generally eaten cooked as the leaves and stalk have quite a thick texture. However young tender leaves are sometimes eaten raw. We only grown heritage and heirlooms varieties.

Heirloom Chard Lucullus Seeds

Swiss Chard 'Lucullus' is a particularly prolific variety offering fantastic value. This variety produces an abundance of wide, white stems which are deliciously succulent. The large, tasty leaves make a flavoursome alternative to spinach, and if left to flower, the flower stalks can also be cooked and eaten like sprouting broccoli. Initially cropping from mid-summer to late autumn, this tasty leaf beet will re-emerge after a normal winter, to produce an unbelievably early spring crop. Height: 50cm. Spread: 40cm.

Per Packet

NZ$ 5.00
Heirloom Fordhook Giant Seeds

With its rich dark green, crumpled, fleshy leaves and broad white ribs, this is a happy alternative for spinach and has one big advantage over it in that it does not vanish to nothingness in quite the same way when cooked. Very easy to grow - just sow thinly in drills and thin out to 15cm or so apart, or just leaving the row to its own devices will still yield a large crop. 45cm.

Per Packet

NZ$ 5.00
Heirloom Silverbeet Argentata Seeds

Old Italian heirloom; also known as 'Italian Silver Rib'. Excellent flavour. Attractive, vigorous plant with wide, white stems & crinkled dark green leaves. Tolerates wide range of conditions. 50-60 days.

Per Packet

NZ$ 5.00
Heirloom Silverbeet Magenta Seeds

Biennial normally grown as an annual, growing to 60cm. Green leaves with narrow magenta stalks that are tender with an excellent flavour. Very attractive both in the garden and in meals.

Per Packet

NZ$ 5.50
Heirloom Silverbeet Ruby Red Seeds

- Leaf vegetable
- Dark green leaves with red stems and veins
- Excellent flavour

Normally grown as an annual, growing to 60cm. Dark green leaves with red veins and stems. Excellent flavour; slightly unique. Very attractive both in the garden and in meals.

Per Packet

NZ$ 5.50
Heirloom Swiss Chard Rhubarb Seeds

Swiss Chard Rhubarb has large, wrinkled, dark green leaves with a small trace of red. The veins are dark red and the stems are light red till bright red. This easy to grow and very fast growing variety is mainly grown for it's flavourful leaves. Swiss Chard is also known as silver beet, beet spinach or leaf beet. It can be harvested after approx. 60 days after transplanting. Swiss Chard is very healthy and versatile.

Per Packet

NZ$ 6.00
Heritage Swiss Chard 'Five Colour Silverbeet' Seeds

Five Colour Silverbeet Swiss Chard (Beta vulgaris) yields a rainbow of colours all season long. Succulent, mild-flavored leaves grow up to 18-inches tall and can be eaten raw or cooked like spinach. 50-60 days.

Per Packet

NZ$ 5.00