Chard 'Perpetual Spinach'
- Product number: 282450
- Origin: Mediterranean Region
- Latin: Beta vulgaris
A historical Chard (Swiss Chard) variety that you grow for its continuously harvestable leaves. In English, this variety is called ‘Perpetual Spinach’, and in the 1970s, an organic gardening pioneer from Ekeren (B), Staf Storms, promoted this easy, tasty vegetable. Since then, this formidable flavour competitor to true spinach has been saved from oblivion in our Low Countries. During the English colonisation of India, this chard spread across that vast country and is grown there instead of spinach under the name Palak. Both there and here, cultivation is easier than spinach, the taste is slightly different, but at least as good!
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Latin: Beta vulgaris
Dutch: Snijbiet (Swiss Chard)
Also known as: Doorlevende Spinazie (Perennial Spinach) or Stafspinazie
English: Perpetual Spinach
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- Flower colour: Inconspicuous green-white flowers
- Origin: Mediterranean Region
- Average growth height: 60 to 90 cm
- Annual or perennial: Annual
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- Winter hardy: Moderately frost hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Easy
- Latin: Beta vulgaris
- Dutch: Swiss chard
- Also known as: Everlasting Spinach or Perpignan Spinach
- English: Perpetual Spinach
