Vegetables
Year Introduced: 1869
Heredity: Open Pollinated

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Biennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Uses: Vegetable
Salad greens
Cooked greens
Suitable as Annual
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

Victory Seed Company sells seeds of 'Perpetual'.

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Common names
  • Swiss Chard
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Beta vulgaris var. cicla
  • Synonym: Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla
Also sold as:
  • Perpetual Spinach
  • Spinach Beet
  • Leaf Beet

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Location: Victory Seed Company - Liberal, OR
Image used with permission of the Victory Seed Company.

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