The highlights
- Colourful stalks taste slightly sweet
- Easy growing and little maintenance required
- Saute with garlic and fresh lemon juice
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
Description
- This colourful chard variety is super easy to grow and the vibrant, rainbow stalks make it a fun plant for kids to grow to help get them into gardening
- Swiss chard leaves have a mild, earthy and slightly bitter taste when raw, becoming sweeter when cooked. Use the smaller leaves in salads, cook the larger leaves with a dollop of butter, or chop up the multicoloured stems and add to a gooey, cheesy gratin
- ‘Bright Lights’ is what’s known as a “cut and come again” plant. This means you can simply take what you need and the plant will continue to grow more leaves afterwards. You can either take a few leaves at a time or cut all the leaves at once. See “What to expect” for more details
- This plant’s crinkled green leaves are packed full of antioxidants like beta-carotene and minerals such as magnesium and potassium
- Harvest throughout summer and well into the autumn months
- If the winter isn’t too cold or wet, then your chard will come back to provide a great crop the following spring
- This variety has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit – an indicator of its indisputable quality
