Swiss chard

[colleysmill]

Just a quick question - I've managed to grow some rainbow Swiss chard over the winter but in true colleysmill style I grew it and then never did pick and eat it. (I have serious form for this)

It looks pretty good and healthy but the packet says harvest until Nov. If I pick and cook it will I poison everybody? And will it taste ok?

Thank you

it will be fine! It overwinters, you see. Enjoy!

No it will be fine - it will flower in June so get those leaves cut and cooked.

Oh that's good to know thank you.

Last year I left the leeks in too long and they went really woody and beyond edible.

Just need to find out how to cook the chard now ........... I'm very grateful to Google!!

Ha! I've done it before with radishes. They were really fibrous and not juicy, but I HAD to eat them because I had GROWN THEM! And I made DH eat them too. We both sat there basically pretending they were delicious when they were clearly inedible.

I start off every year really enthusiastically and then it kind of peters out and I don't harvest what little has grown. Maybe I ought to join the veg patch thread to keep me on track!

You should, that would be great!