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Product ID: 703D
Bright Lights
(Beta vulgaris, cicla group)
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Multicolor chard - 1998 All-America Selections winner.
Stems of many colors including gold, pink, orange, purple, red, and white ... with bright and pastel variations. Lightly savoyed, green or bronze leaves. The taste is milder than ordinary chard, with each color a bit different. Grow from transplant - individual colors may then be separated out - or direct seed. Suitable for production year round, but somewhat less frost hardy than normal for chard. The late New Zealand amateur breeder John Eaton developed Bright Lights, and Johnny's selects and maintains the different color stocks and produces the seeds. Decorticated (rubbed), sized seeds. Avg. 29,500 seeds/lb. Packet: 210 seeds.
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Days to Maturity or Bloom: 28 baby, 55 bunching
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All yellow for baby leaf or full size bunches.
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Johnny's own manual on saving vegetable seed.
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Diseases Explained:
No disease information found.
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Growing Information:
CULTURE: Soil pH should be over 6.0. Cool and mild weather is preferred, though chard has some heat tolerance. TRANSPLANTING: See "Beets." DIRECT SEEDING: Sow beginning midspring and on into midsummer (fall where winter is mild). BUNCHING: Sow about 6 seeds/ ft. 1/2" deep, rows 18-24" apart. Thin to 4-6" apart for larger leaves. Cut for bunching at any stage; new leaves will grow. SALAD MIX: Sow in a 2-4" wide band, 1" apart, 40 seeds/ft. Clip in about 5 weeks. AVG. DIRECT SEEDING RATE: BUNCHING: 300'/oz., 3 1/4 oz./1,000', 4 1/2 lb./acre at 6 seeds/ft. in rows 24" apart. SALAD MIX: 45 seeds/oz., 1 1/3 lb./1,000', 39 lb./acre at 40 seeds/ft. in rows 18" apart. SEED SPECS: SEEDS/LB.: 20,000-40,000 (avg. 30,000). PACKET: 3 gm. (avg. 210 seeds, sows 35'). |
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JSS Bred
Seeds and accessories are bred & developed by Johnny’s Selected Seeds. |
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Container
Variety does well when grown in a container. |
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Salad Mix Ingredient
A mixture of lettuce and greens with different colors, flavors and textures, harvested at a tender, baby, bite-size stage. For fresh salads. |
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Pack Sales
Plants that are suitable for creating 6-packs for customers. |
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All-America Selections
Awarded to vegetable, flower and herb varieties from around the world. Winners are chosen based on scores received from judges at 34 sites in the U.S. and Canada. Johnny's is proud to be an official flower trials site for AAS. |
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Micro Mix Ingredient
A mixture of greens harvested at the seedling stage. Eaten fresh as a salad ingredient. |
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