Notes
White-rib bulk bunches. 2-row 12 in if plants get large.
Cultivars / Leafy greens
Fordhook Giant
Chard · Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris
DTM
55 d
185 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
2
10 in in-row
Density
2.4
plants / bed-ft
Yield
2.4
bunches / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$8.83
$4.00 / bunch
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 28 d
- Germination
- 6 d
- Germ temp
- 50°F – 85°F (opt 75°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 10 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 2.4
- Plants / 50 ft
- 120
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 55 d
- Holding
- 60 d
- Occupancy
- 185 d
- Multicut
- yes · 8 cuts · 10 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.1
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- bunch
- Units / bed-ft
- 2.4
- Avg unit wt
- 0.7 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 1.7 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.50 / $4.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 1.1 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 85.7
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.6 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.8 / 0.2 / 1.1 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
- 3 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 32 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 142 seeds · 120 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $276.00 / $441.60
Companions
allium · lettuce · bean
Avoid
spinach