Leaf Beet Erbette

If you find chard too "mineral" tasting, this is the plant for you. Lasts better than spinach in dry weather, more tender and sweet than chard - an excellent all rounder as veg and salad ingredient. Everyone should try this. You gats lots of value evenn from a coupple of plants.

I grow this alongside leaf spinach and Swiss chard. It is meatier than the spinach but with similar flavour, a great tasting veg. I find it less troublesome than spinach, less likely to bolt. Germination is not quite so good so put in a few extra seeds. It lasts all winter from an Autumn sowing. I am picking in March as it starts regrowing again. I will be sowing it this month in situ for summer cropping