Latin: Beta vulgaris
Swedish: Mangold 'Rhubarb chard'
English: Beets 'Rhubarb chard'
Producer: Bröderna Nelson, purchased at ICA Maxi 7/6-2011
Salad is supposed to be watered from below from what I understood from some vegetable growing books. Right now all watering is done automatically with sprinklers, which could be a problem.
This kind of salad seems to be the exact kind you can buy for a lot of money in the Supermarkets. There, they normally are small dark green leaves with red stems. Look great and taste even better there. Let us see what it results with now. I actually tried to cultivate them before, but I never had the heart to actually eat them as baby leaves. They did not grow very well either. The large ones became very "tough" and could be cooked and treated as spinach. But they were not very exciting. But I do not give up yet.
After nearly two months and some few picking sessions, they have reached around 15cm height. They are still soft and can be eaten as they are.
Note though: In spring we realized that one plant was coming up from the ground. Probably some reminiscent from last year. We have moved it around a lot because of the digging and this is how it looked like some days ago.
So ithis plant is not really an annual: it can even survive the winter. This plant is highly decorative, far more decorative than what it looks in the picture itself.
Planted 8/6-2011 (See scheme for raised bed)
The raised bed contained for the most soil from the EcoCenter (low quality soil), but it was topped with high qualitative soil for vegetable cultivations from Hasselfors (2,5 bags).
15/6-2011: I am not 100% but there seems to be one leaf or two? Will have to double-check again.
Just realized this special kind of salad has got only 55% growability, that is kind of each other seed with come up. Not very much to play with, really... :O(
Swedish: Mangold 'Rhubarb chard'
English: Beets 'Rhubarb chard'
Producer: Bröderna Nelson, purchased at ICA Maxi 7/6-2011
Salad is supposed to be watered from below from what I understood from some vegetable growing books. Right now all watering is done automatically with sprinklers, which could be a problem.
This kind of salad seems to be the exact kind you can buy for a lot of money in the Supermarkets. There, they normally are small dark green leaves with red stems. Look great and taste even better there. Let us see what it results with now. I actually tried to cultivate them before, but I never had the heart to actually eat them as baby leaves. They did not grow very well either. The large ones became very "tough" and could be cooked and treated as spinach. But they were not very exciting. But I do not give up yet.
After nearly two months and some few picking sessions, they have reached around 15cm height. They are still soft and can be eaten as they are.
Note though: In spring we realized that one plant was coming up from the ground. Probably some reminiscent from last year. We have moved it around a lot because of the digging and this is how it looked like some days ago.
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Planted 8/6-2011 (See scheme for raised bed)
The raised bed contained for the most soil from the EcoCenter (low quality soil), but it was topped with high qualitative soil for vegetable cultivations from Hasselfors (2,5 bags).
15/6-2011: I am not 100% but there seems to be one leaf or two? Will have to double-check again.
Just realized this special kind of salad has got only 55% growability, that is kind of each other seed with come up. Not very much to play with, really... :O(
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