Growing Silverbeet, also Swiss Chard or Mangold
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- 31 Dec 10 Paul Stothard (Australia - temperate climate)
- My mother has some silver beet in the garden which she has been harvesting on a cut and come again basis. Most of the plants have recently started seeding. She would like to know whether the leaves can still be harvested and eaten
- 01 Jan 11 Elizabeth (Australia - temperate climate)
- Yes you can continue to harvest and eat the leaves. Now that it's seeding though once you've harvested this last lot of leaves off you might as well pull out the plant as it won't be producing leaves now.
- 30 Jan 11 Alison (Australia - temperate climate)
- It says on the page above, that if you cut off the plant at the base once it goes to flower, it will regrow, so maybe you don't need to pull the whole plant out?
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