Notes
Multi-color petioles for bunching. Cut-and-come-again all summer if watered. Leaf miner: remove eggs on undersides, insect net in June. One spring planting can run to frost.
Cultivars / Leafy greens
Bright Lights
Swiss Chard · Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla
DTM
55 d
160 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
3
10 in in-row
Density
3.6
plants / bed-ft
Yield
2.4
bunches / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$7.73
$3.50 / bunch
Propagation
- Method
- Direct or transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 28 d
- Germination
- 7 d
- Germ temp
- 50°F – 85°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 3
- In-row
- 10 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 3.6
- Plants / 50 ft
- 180
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 55 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 160 d
- Multicut
- yes · 8 cuts · 12 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.05
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- bunch
- Units / bed-ft
- 2.4
- Avg unit wt
- 0.7 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 4 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.00 / $3.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 1.05 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 81.8
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.5 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.8 / 0.2 / 0.9 lb
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-04
- First harvest
- 2026-04-28
- Successions that fit
- 2 · every 30 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 14 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 212 seeds · 180 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $220.80 / $386.40
Companions
onion · lettuce · bean
Avoid
potato