HOW TO GROW SWISS CHARD IN CONTAINERS

we will see how to grow
Swiss chard in containers Swiss chard is
grown for its leaves its green leaves
now it stems might have different colors
but it's more like a substitute for
growing spinach simply because it's just
so easy to grow and it produces a lot of
greens and the best part about Swiss
chard is that it grows year round
so for Swiss chard you need a container
which is about 16 inches wide by 16
inches tall and I am growing about 3
Swiss chard plants in it for a single
plant you might get away with a 12-inch
container that's about 12 inches high
the Swiss chard leaves and stalks can be
in multiple colors they can be green or
red white stalks red stalks and one of
the most common varieties that people
grow is called bright lights which is
basically a mixture of yellow green and
red Swiss chard and for the most part
that's a good variety to grow but there
is one variety that I highly recommend
growing and that is called ruby red
Swiss chard now the reason I recommend
growing ruby red is that it's just so
easy to grow them they're very disease
resistant they produce a lot and are
easy to maintain and taste very nice one
thing I do want to talk about a Swiss
chard as we are harvesting these leaves
is that Swiss chard is mostly harvested
for its greens so the kind of fertilizer
that you need to use for swiss chard
needs to be either a balanced fertilizer
or a fertilizer that's high in nitrogen
that's going to give you nice big leaves
and if you want to go the organic way
just make sure you use a lot of compost
a lot of manure to give you that nice
big leaves that Swiss chard is known for
and this ruby red variety is very
prolific grows really well very easily
in containers and will give you a
harvest all season long
now those of you who have grown spinach
would know that spinach is a little hard
to grow the leaves are very small so you
need to grow a lot and spinach is a cool
season crop only so it's really hard for
you to grow spinach in summers because
they go to bolt they produce flowers and
then you're done Swiss chard on the
other hand can be grown year-round
and they will keep growing and growing
till it's the end of the season and you
you just get rid of it because a Swiss
chard plant can produce a lot of greens
throughout its life cycle