I came here because I have some chard that over-wintered (and survived here in Ohio) that has now gone to seed...the funny thing is, they have grown to about 7 feet tall!!! I never would have guessed they'd get that big. It's all still green, so as you say, I'll show some patience =) Thanks for all the instruction!
That’s how it should be … it definitely should take the second season for them to flower and go to seed. Mine are about 7 feet tall also! Needs us to have lots of patience 😅
I'm just getting into saving seeds, and it's like you said, this one plant just burst into seed. I'm excited to watch it dry and pick them. Thank you for your light hearted instruction.
My local NorCal library started a seed exchange and one of the chard starts I planted last fall has gone to seed! Perfect video. Thank you! I just need to wait a bit for it to dry out and brown, but I got the envelopes to return them in. How exciting to help my community become more self sufficient as we potentially are heading into very hard times with insane massive support for Ukraine's fight with Russia! I'll save a few of the gazillions from just this one plant to feed to my new flock of chickens just nearing their first lay! They love them.
Chard is a biennial plant, meaning it has a two year life cycle, but it is cultivated as an annual in the vegetable garden and harvested in its first season of growth. Once it begins to flower and set seed in its second year, its leaves turn bitter and unpalatable. Both the leaves and stalks of chard are edible.
this was so helpful. My swiss chard is loaded with seed and most of the stalks have fallen over but they are still green. I will be patient and wait till they turn brown to harvest. Thanks for the info.
All mine have gone to seed!! I was thinking about removing them but found a bird coming to pick on it a few times so I thought to leave it although it looks rather messy. Now you make me think that's a good idea because i can save some seed now! Thanks for showing how.
I've got last year's chard just starting to go to seed all over my garden, and I'm going to be saving the red, the green, and the gorgeous pink in my front yard (I don't even eat that one, I've been treating it like an ornamental!). It's just such a great plant. I'm in New Zealand, we're in spring now, we have mild winters where we are, and it's a real winter staple here because it just keeps producing. I reckon it's setting seed now because it's not happy about the weather warming up ;) The seed does take a good long time to mature, from my experience in recent years. You've just got to get over the fact it's going to be falling all over everything for a while. I've decided to stake mine this year, keep it up and out of the way so I can still use my paths. I lost a path completely to it last summer! (please exempt me from the giveaway, I think I'll have plenty of seed!)
I let some rainbow chard plants go to seeds. I collected a lot and then pulled up the old plants and dragged them over to our green (plant recycle) trash can. Now we have about 20 chard plants growing all around the yard. They are drought tolerant! So I harvest the leaves and then we pull up the plant. I made a chard/potato/parmesan cheese soup that was delicious with 10 huge chard leaves (more than a foot long and also very wide.) I learned about the seeds from MIgardener.
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Thanks for the video. All of my chard went to seed this year. I have purple and white and its all in the 2nd year. I found out that chard is biennial. It grows pretty much anywhere I drop seed even accidentally.
Hi there just wanted to sit start out by saying I watch you all your videos I love your work it's wonderful you are so informative and intelligent I can't wait to order some seeds and in the meantime thank you for showing me how to harvest the seeds from my Swiss chard I have 2 big huge plants that went to seed and now I know how to save them keep up the great work I'll keep watching
I grew Swiss chard for first time this year love it with mustard greens and romaine mix. I was wondering if it would bolt like broccoli so this vid was informative thanks for sharing love your channel.
I know this is an old video but I had to comment! Last year we bought garden soil from a place we never had before..well, I ended up with poisonous weeds popping up. But to my surprise right in the middle of my carrots is the big red veined green leaf. I have NEVER grown Swiss Chard before but there it was! I just left it cuz I wasn't sure if it really was swiss chard. This year it came back so I put it in a pot and of course it started to bolt..I knew that I had to save the seeds with such a hardy plant! Thanks for this video, I can't wait till they turn brown!
Yrs later im looking at this vlog i have hoped and wish for swiss chard to go to seed and it would not, this yr 2020 it made it thru brutal freeze now spring i have seeds making and u always have the appropriate info to help me thank you i have 2 going to seed rt now i am jumping for joy over this lol🙃🙃🙃😁😁😆
@@nornironniall Not well. I have never successfully grown swiss chard here. However, I have grown arugula, mustard greens, and certain kales very easily during our growing season.
I’ve grown Swiss chard for many years. This is the first year (2023) all of it finally after a 2022 season went to seed. I had so much Swiss chard. Then it grew to be a monster giant! Huge, thick stalks 8-10 feet tall! They have all dropped over and are blocking the walkway…but I am enjoying this new adventure. The smell is INCREDIBLE! No wonder the bees love them. They smell like Vanilla and honey. But no where near brown, and I’m wondering how much longer I have to wait? Probably until the end of summer or fall! I’ll be patient! Thanks for giving me the push to keep going!
Same. I am in Australia so we are at the start of our summer. One of the silverbeet seedlings planted in May grew to be my most successful, stalk and leaves longer than my arms, then went to seed with a stalk about 1.5+ metres? It’s flopped out of a raised bed, blocking a path, still green. This was such a great plant that I want it’s seeds, so seems patience is the key until they actually turn brown!
This answers my question. Thanks! NE Illinois here. Last November, I still had 4 Swiss chard plants still alive so I transferred them to large pots and put them in the basement to over winter. I continued harvesting leaves on occasion. 3 of the 4 died in February. Late March, I moved the last one back to the garden and was able to get leave thru June. Then it flowered and went to seed. Now to be patient to want for it to die off. Plant is 4 foot tall and very top heavy. Hoping the stakes will keep it from toppling before I can get the seeds.
I'm in Australia and Swiss chard (also called silverbeet) is very common and about the only veggie that survives in my neglected garden. I never knew how to save the seeds, though! Thanks for sharing.
@@MIgardener Replying to this 5 years later lol but I'm in the UK and beetroot is not the same thing as Swiss chard here. I think what we call beetroot Americans call beets?We call swiss chard swiss chard or just chard.
Wow, those are huge Chard seeds! I've never seen Chard seeds! Beautiful Luke. Great job. 😊 So beautiful. It looked like you had several chard plants go to flower in that patch. 🌾 Good Luck to whomever wins the chard seeds! 🌱 🌾 Merry meet 🌿
I wouldn't mind a packet for sure. Swiss Chard seems to be one I'm having trouble getting to grow. but that isn't going to stop me from keeping at it until I do get them growing for me.
I am so thrilled Lisa. Thanks for following and watching along and I certainly hope we can bring more informative videos to you that help you just as much (if not more)!
I'm going to try saving Technicolor Swiss Chard Seed from Olds Seeds. They only sell seeds to stores these days and I just planted the last five seeds. Thanks for the tutorial. BTW - I found curly kale easy to bolt one year and have thousands of seeds this year. Too many for future smoothies, though. :-)
I have mine seed easy, i have had the same plants going from the original ALDI pack. We call it Silver Beet over here in Australia, and yes the seed is easy to harvest by running your fingers down the stem.
Wonderful video! Once I have the seeds, how do I save them for a year or two? Do I need to first dry them in the sun for 2 days and then put in a ziplock bag and then in the refridgerator? Thanks.
I had swiss chard in 2 seperate beds that I planted in spring last year. They did really well and got HUGE. However during the winter I decided to clear one of the beds to grow garlic in. So I moved the massive plants and they more or less immediately went to seed in their new home. Not sure if that is normal however...
Try growing your Swiss chard under some cheap LED lights like I do with my spinach and lettuce! This is a great way to keep things going in the winter on a small scale! Each one of my lights is only 36 W, and I have three of them. This covers a 18" x 4' rectangle of space! This is perfect for Lettuce and leafy green!
Luke is it necessary to wait for them to brown? I have millions of seeds I'm getting tired of waiting on lol. The chard is lasting into summer now and it's been 118 in vegas. I want to plant some peppers in the chard space
Sorry folks, but this is not good advice. Swiss chard is a Biennial. The flowering and setting of seed in chard is triggered by a period of vernalization. A chard plant set out early in the spring may go through a period of cold nights and "think" that it has experienced a winter. This may cause some of your chard plants to set flowers and seed. This is not a characteristic that you want to encourage in a chard plant. The ability of the plant to go through its first season without bolting to seed is a desirable characteristic for swiss chard. If you save seed from plants that bolt to seed in their first year you are selecting for that trait. Future generations will be more likely to bolt. Also, in this video it appears that only one plant has bolted and he is claiming you can save seed from that plant. If you save seed from only one plant it is likely that very little or none of that seed will be viable. If the seed is viable it will make weak plants. This is due to inbreeding depression. Chard is an outbreeding plant and should have a population of 20-50 plants to maintain a strong healthy line. Some plants such as peas can produce viable seed when you save seed from only one plant. But that is not the case for many other plants, including chard. Seed saving is a great endeavor but the devil is in the details.
I planted beets for the first time last year … none of them went to seed. I left three of them in the ground over the winter … they bolted and went to flower this spring. I am waiting for the flower/ seed cycle to complete so that I can harvest those seeds … so, I guess it takes a long time to collect seeds from Swiss chard, and patience must be a requirement 😅
I have chard from Winter that I let get HUGE and bolt. Unfortunately, I pulled most of them before the seeds had turned from green to brown, stacked them up out of the way. Was not smart. I am now saving those millions of seeds. They are tiny compared to those turning still in-ground. Are those others viable that I pulled too early?
I tried to grow Swiss Chard this past summer, and I keep wondering why it would not grow. Come to find out my dog loves eating it too. So I need some more seeds to plant for the two of us to eat.
I am trying Swiss chard for the first time right now in my fall garden should I have started it in the spring I live in NC zone 7/8. Also put me in for the drawing.
i, have 4 plants that are seeding right now, seeds are green. Would I mess things up if I transplant these mature plants somewhere else ? Reason being I want to plant some more veggies in the spot the swiss chards are seeding.
I'm letting my rainbow chard bolt. Should I continue to water it? We planted it in July 2019 and harvested the last chard in middle of May 2020. It is May 22. The plant is about 8 feet long and very green. Water or not? Thank you.
I went to harvest my ruby red Swiss chard, and the seed pods were already so dry, that all the seeds came out. Will these still grow you think? All I’ve ever planted was entire pods before...
I find your seed saving videos are very informative and educational. I wonder if these swiss chard giveaway seeds will produce green, yellow, or red leaves.
I'm wondering if you know about collecting seeds to use for growing sprouts during the winter. I am trying to make some sprouts from Rutabaga seeds I grew but they are slow sprouting.
garanandmelissa don't be desperate, just buy some seeds and grow them indoors for the winter! You will have a much better time than waiting around for him to give you some! Don't get me wrong, I love this channel, I'm just saying! If you want it you can have it
Hahaha I fully intend to buy my own seeds-- I'm not waiting for free seeds. I just thought it would be fun to try some of these, too. I'm definitely not desperate ;-)
garanandmelissa i'm sorry, I did not mean to call you desperate at all. I was just making a general statement about most of the comments that I have seen. I hope no offense was taken.
Hi Luke. When you were talking about saving chard seeds, it occurred to me that I stop watering mine because we have such a water shortage here in California. The plants then bolt. Might be the lack of water causes them to go to seed.
Also, do you package and sell all your own seeds. I bought some of your kale seeds and they're doing great, except for the icky green worms I pick off.
Thanks. Mine went to seed a month ago but they are still green. Can I cut them and dry them to speed up the process. I can’t find anything online about this. I’m worried they are not mature enough yet.
You will laugh but I have never ever tried Swiss chard before! Getting free seeds will give me great incentives to plant and eat it. Pick me pick me! 🤓
Is swiss chard self fertile? I have one plant that overwintered and it is flowering, I don't want to have to keep watering it if it isn't going to produce seed.
Hello there. I live in Texas and I had a problem with my Swiss chard. I directly sowed them outside, they germinated but got very leggy. I am not sure why. Any tips?
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I came here because I have some chard that over-wintered (and survived here in Ohio) that has now gone to seed...the funny thing is, they have grown to about 7 feet tall!!! I never would have guessed they'd get that big. It's all still green, so as you say, I'll show some patience =) Thanks for all the instruction!
That’s how it should be … it definitely should take the second season for them to flower and go to seed.
Mine are about 7 feet tall also!
Needs us to have lots of patience 😅
This guy Luke, has the cleanest, smoothest hands and prettiest manicured nails I have ever seen on a gardener.
I'm just getting into saving seeds, and it's like you said, this one plant just burst into seed. I'm excited to watch it dry and pick them. Thank you for your light hearted instruction.
My local NorCal library started a seed exchange and one of the chard starts I planted last fall has gone to seed! Perfect video. Thank you! I just need to wait a bit for it to dry out and brown, but I got the envelopes to return them in. How exciting to help my community become more self sufficient as we potentially are heading into very hard times with insane massive support for Ukraine's fight with Russia! I'll save a few of the gazillions from just this one plant to feed to my new flock of chickens just nearing their first lay! They love them.
Chard is a biennial plant, meaning it has a two year life cycle, but it is cultivated as an annual in the vegetable garden and harvested in its first season of growth. Once it begins to flower and set seed in its second year, its leaves turn bitter and unpalatable. Both the leaves and stalks of chard are edible.
Loving your channel! I love saving seeds and knowing i have second or third generations of my own plants ^.^
So cool! I just clipped my green seed heads off thinking my plant would stop producing!! Always love your enthusiasm.
Love your channel I buy seeds from you every year !! And learning how to save my own! Ty for all that you do to help others learn
That is so kind of you, seeds are like gold these days 🥰🌱
this was so helpful. My swiss chard is loaded with seed and most of the stalks have fallen over but they are still green. I will be patient and wait till they turn brown to harvest. Thanks for the info.
All mine have gone to seed!! I was thinking about removing them but found a bird coming to pick on it a few times so I thought to leave it although it looks rather messy. Now you make me think that's a good idea because i can save some seed now! Thanks for showing how.
I've got last year's chard just starting to go to seed all over my garden, and I'm going to be saving the red, the green, and the gorgeous pink in my front yard (I don't even eat that one, I've been treating it like an ornamental!). It's just such a great plant. I'm in New Zealand, we're in spring now, we have mild winters where we are, and it's a real winter staple here because it just keeps producing. I reckon it's setting seed now because it's not happy about the weather warming up ;)
The seed does take a good long time to mature, from my experience in recent years. You've just got to get over the fact it's going to be falling all over everything for a while. I've decided to stake mine this year, keep it up and out of the way so I can still use my paths. I lost a path completely to it last summer!
(please exempt me from the giveaway, I think I'll have plenty of seed!)
googling for tips on saving swiss chard seeds, saw your face on a thumbnail and knew I had to click it to get that good good info XD thanks bud
I let some rainbow chard plants go to seeds. I collected a lot and then pulled up the old plants and dragged them over to our green (plant recycle) trash can. Now we have about 20 chard plants growing all around the yard. They are drought tolerant! So I harvest the leaves and then we pull up the plant. I made a chard/potato/parmesan cheese soup that was delicious with 10 huge chard leaves (more than a foot long and also very wide.) I learned about the seeds from MIgardener.
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Thanks for the video. All of my chard went to seed this year. I have purple and white and its all in the 2nd year. I found out that chard is biennial. It grows pretty much anywhere I drop seed even accidentally.
Omg my Swiss chard has flowered.. I’m so excited!!!!
Mine, too 😃
Hi there just wanted to sit start out by saying I watch you all your videos I love your work it's wonderful you are so informative and intelligent I can't wait to order some seeds and in the meantime thank you for showing me how to harvest the seeds from my Swiss chard I have 2 big huge plants that went to seed and now I know how to save them keep up the great work I'll keep watching
I grew Swiss chard for first time this year love it with mustard greens and romaine mix.
I was wondering if it would bolt like broccoli so this vid was informative thanks for sharing love your channel.
I know this is an old video but I had to comment! Last year we bought garden soil from a place we never had before..well, I ended up with poisonous weeds popping up. But to my surprise right in the middle of my carrots is the big red veined green leaf. I have NEVER grown Swiss Chard before but there it was! I just left it cuz I wasn't sure if it really was swiss chard. This year it came back so I put it in a pot and of course it started to bolt..I knew that I had to save the seeds with such a hardy plant! Thanks for this video, I can't wait till they turn brown!
Yrs later im looking at this vlog i have hoped and wish for swiss chard to go to seed and it would not, this yr 2020 it made it thru brutal freeze now spring i have seeds making and u always have the appropriate info to help me thank you i have 2 going to seed rt now i am jumping for joy over this lol🙃🙃🙃😁😁😆
Thank you for all your detailed videos
I'm actually going to be trying swiss chard for the first time this growing season (I'm in South Florida so my growing season is starting now!). :)
How did it go?
@@nornironniall Not well. I have never successfully grown swiss chard here. However, I have grown arugula, mustard greens, and certain kales very easily during our growing season.
Cool, too much sun maybe?
great video been a following for a quite a few yrs
I’ve grown Swiss chard for many years. This is the first year (2023) all of it finally after a 2022 season went to seed. I had so much Swiss chard. Then it grew to be a monster giant! Huge, thick stalks 8-10 feet tall! They have all dropped over and are blocking the walkway…but I am enjoying this new adventure. The smell is INCREDIBLE! No wonder the bees love them. They smell like Vanilla and honey. But no where near brown, and I’m wondering how much longer I have to wait? Probably until the end of summer or fall! I’ll be patient! Thanks for giving me the push to keep going!
Same. I am in Australia so we are at the start of our summer. One of the silverbeet seedlings planted in May grew to be my most successful, stalk and leaves longer than my arms, then went to seed with a stalk about 1.5+ metres? It’s flopped out of a raised bed, blocking a path, still green. This was such a great plant that I want it’s seeds, so seems patience is the key until they actually turn brown!
This answers my question. Thanks!
NE Illinois here. Last November, I still had 4 Swiss chard plants still alive so I transferred them to large pots and put them in the basement to over winter. I continued harvesting leaves on occasion.
3 of the 4 died in February. Late March, I moved the last one back to the garden and was able to get leave thru June. Then it flowered and went to seed.
Now to be patient to want for it to die off. Plant is 4 foot tall and very top heavy. Hoping the stakes will keep it from toppling before I can get the seeds.
Watching this vid, it doesn't appear important to keep it erect. Mine, a year later, is also laying over on the ground.
Thank you for taking time to share.
I’m waiting for my seeds to mature I can’t wait. Thank you for the info 🥰
Thank you Luke for sharing your gardening passion!! Thanks to you and trifecta+, my 1st year gardening was a success!!
That is awesome!!!! That is what we love to hear! Now the 2nd gardening season will be ever better right? Grow big!
Thanks for the video. I'm just starting to save seeds
I'm in Australia and Swiss chard (also called silverbeet) is very common and about the only veggie that survives in my neglected garden. I never knew how to save the seeds, though! Thanks for sharing.
So glad it helped you out! I think they also call it beetroot in Great Britain. So many names!
@@MIgardener Replying to this 5 years later lol but I'm in the UK and beetroot is not the same thing as Swiss chard here. I think what we call beetroot Americans call beets?We call swiss chard swiss chard or just chard.
I would totally give these seeds to someone else I have been getting into gardening! thanks Luke
I'm new to gardening and this would be so fun to try!
Wow, those are huge Chard seeds! I've never seen Chard seeds! Beautiful Luke. Great job. 😊 So beautiful. It looked like you had several chard plants go to flower in that patch. 🌾 Good Luck to whomever wins the chard seeds! 🌱
🌾 Merry meet 🌿
Thank you for the lesson, my Swiss chard from last year went to seed and I did not know how to harvest them. I’ll wait for the stem to dry.
Good video Luck!Happy Gardening.
Excellent instructions; been wondering how to get seeds from my flowering swiss chard. They are still green
in Australia, we call this Rainbow Spinach, thanx for the great work Luke, cheers
Thank you I have a couple of bolting chard now I’ll have seeds
I wouldn't mind a packet for sure. Swiss Chard seems to be one I'm having trouble getting to grow. but that isn't going to stop me from keeping at it until I do get them growing for me.
Oh, good to see this, I picked mine to early...they weren't brown...well, I will wait for them to bold next time! I'd like some of your seeds. Thanks.
thank you so much for this info. I thought I had to let it go through more than one season.
those seeds are amazing.
Love your channel, learning a lot.
I am so thrilled Lisa. Thanks for following and watching along and I certainly hope we can bring more informative videos to you that help you just as much (if not more)!
We are also saving chard seeds this year! It also took us 2 years to get seeds from them.
Glad you got some to go to seed as well. I can't really get a sure fire way to get mine to go to seed.
Great videos love everyone of them
I'm going to try saving Technicolor Swiss Chard Seed from Olds Seeds. They only sell seeds to stores these days and I just planted the last five seeds. Thanks for the tutorial. BTW - I found curly kale easy to bolt one year and have thousands of seeds this year. Too many for future smoothies, though. :-)
Mine are still green. Thanks for the help.
aWESOME UPDATE THANK YOU FOR SHARING HAVE A BLESSED DAY
Thank you for the video. Even if it is just 5 seeds I would love to plant that variety.
I would love some swiss chard seeds! Keep up the great videos!
Didn't grow it before, but got to try it this year. Hope to grow some next year. Free seed would be nice.
I must have hit the jackpot, cause a bunch of mine went to seed! 😄 This season was really hot in Wyoming though.
I have mine seed easy, i have had the same plants going from the original ALDI pack. We call it Silver Beet over here in Australia, and yes the seed is easy to harvest by running your fingers down the stem.
Swiss Chard seeds for the win!
Wonderful video! Once I have the seeds, how do I save them for a year or two? Do I need to first dry them in the sun for 2 days and then put in a ziplock bag and then in the refridgerator? Thanks.
I had swiss chard in 2 seperate beds that I planted in spring last year. They did really well and got HUGE. However during the winter I decided to clear one of the beds to grow garlic in. So I moved the massive plants and they more or less immediately went to seed in their new home. Not sure if that is normal however...
never tried but I'm growing it hopefully it's yummy.
Do i have to wait until they dry while still planted or can i cut the seed stems off and hang them to dry?
Good question. Hope someone knows.
Try growing your Swiss chard under some cheap LED lights like I do with my spinach and lettuce! This is a great way to keep things going in the winter on a small scale! Each one of my lights is only 36 W, and I have three of them. This covers a 18" x 4' rectangle of space! This is perfect for Lettuce and leafy green!
ooohhhh that looks very nice! I wouldn't mind getting some of thosefor indoor planting this coming year. :D
Fun! Love your videos.
Thanks, just what I was looking for. :-)
Luke is it necessary to wait for them to brown? I have millions of seeds I'm getting tired of waiting on lol. The chard is lasting into summer now and it's been 118 in vegas. I want to plant some peppers in the chard space
Sorry folks, but this is not good advice. Swiss chard is a Biennial. The flowering and setting of seed in chard is triggered by a period of vernalization. A chard plant set out early in the spring may go through a period of cold nights and "think" that it has experienced a winter. This may cause some of your chard plants to set flowers and seed. This is not a characteristic that you want to encourage in a chard plant. The ability of the plant to go through its first season without bolting to seed is a desirable characteristic for swiss chard. If you save seed from plants that bolt to seed in their first year you are selecting for that trait. Future generations will be more likely to bolt. Also, in this video it appears that only one plant has bolted and he is claiming you can save seed from that plant. If you save seed from only one plant it is likely that very little or none of that seed will be viable. If the seed is viable it will make weak plants. This is due to inbreeding depression. Chard is an outbreeding plant and should have a population of 20-50 plants to maintain a strong healthy line. Some plants such as peas can produce viable seed when you save seed from only one plant. But that is not the case for many other plants, including chard. Seed saving is a great endeavor but the devil is in the details.
All I kept thinking about was Carol Deppe's book when I was watching this and I was shaking my head the whole time. Your advice is spot on.
I planted beets for the first time last year … none of them went to seed.
I left three of them in the ground over the winter … they bolted and went to flower this spring. I am waiting for the flower/ seed cycle to complete so that I can harvest those seeds … so, I guess it takes a long time to collect seeds from Swiss chard, and patience must be a requirement 😅
I have chard from Winter that I let get HUGE and bolt. Unfortunately, I pulled most of them before the seeds had turned from green to brown, stacked them up out of the way.
Was not smart.
I am now saving those millions of seeds. They are tiny compared to those turning still in-ground.
Are those others viable that I pulled too early?
I tried to grow Swiss Chard this past summer, and I keep wondering why it would not grow. Come to find out my dog loves eating it too. So I need some more seeds to plant for the two of us to eat.
Is Swiss Chard self pollinating or will I need several Swiss chard plants growing together for the seeds to be pollinated?
good to know,but to make the seed grow should I freeze the seed to make it think it went threw winter?
great video. been interested in swiss chard. right now though, i am trying coffee, thanks to your recent video,
Yay!
I would love some seeds.. I have never grown swiss chard and would be a pretty cool plant for next season to try out!
I am trying Swiss chard for the first time right now in my fall garden should I have started it in the spring I live in NC zone 7/8. Also put me in for the drawing.
i, have 4 plants that are seeding right now, seeds are green. Would I mess things up if I transplant these mature plants somewhere else ? Reason being I want to plant some more veggies in the spot the swiss chards are seeding.
I'm letting my rainbow chard bolt. Should I continue to water it? We planted it in July 2019 and harvested the last chard in middle of May 2020. It is May 22. The plant is about 8 feet long and very green. Water or not? Thank you.
thx! this really helped😁😀
So glad it helped! Are you growing swiss chard this year?
MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living already did!
love swiss chard... would totally use free seeds too
I went to harvest my ruby red Swiss chard, and the seed pods were already so dry, that all the seeds came out. Will these still grow you think? All I’ve ever planted was entire pods before...
I find your seed saving videos are very informative and educational. I wonder if these swiss chard giveaway seeds will produce green, yellow, or red leaves.
Thank you! We are thrilled that you love the videos and I hope they can continue to help you out!
That's awesome, there's so many seeds! :-)
It is so amazing that 1 seed can produce thousands isn't it?!? Just blows me away.
This is my 1st time gardening & I’m super late with this video but I would love some chard’s seeds.
Also I can’t find a video on saving beets seeds.
I have a question where do you guys get all of your seeds for the squash zucchini cucumbers and everything else?
I'm wondering if you know about collecting seeds to use for growing sprouts during the winter. I am trying to make some sprouts from Rutabaga seeds I grew but they are slow sprouting.
count me in on the seed giveaway! Love what you do Luke :)
Can you use the root of Swiss Chard to start another plant?
I have four there altogether bolting and one of the stocks is over 6ft tall right now
I would love some seeds! We just bought a new house in the PNW and we can't wait to start a raised bed garden!
garanandmelissa don't be desperate, just buy some seeds and grow them indoors for the winter! You will have a much better time than waiting around for him to give you some! Don't get me wrong, I love this channel, I'm just saying! If you want it you can have it
Hahaha I fully intend to buy my own seeds-- I'm not waiting for free seeds. I just thought it would be fun to try some of these, too. I'm definitely not desperate ;-)
garanandmelissa i'm sorry, I did not mean to call you desperate at all. I was just making a general statement about most of the comments that I have seen. I hope no offense was taken.
Hi Luke. When you were talking about saving chard seeds, it occurred to me that I stop watering mine because we have such a water shortage here in California. The plants then bolt. Might be the lack of water causes them to go to seed.
Also, do you package and sell all your own seeds. I bought some of your kale seeds and they're doing great, except for the icky green worms I pick off.
Hi I just buy seed of Swiss chard I hope can grow well in my country
Are all of those balls of seeds... one seed each per ball? Or are they clusters of many seeds in each ball you need to break apart?
Thanks. Mine went to seed a month ago but they are still green. Can I cut them and dry them to speed up the process. I can’t find anything online about this. I’m worried they are not mature enough yet.
Wow, the seeds look so much bigger than the ones I've gotten in packets!
They really are very large!
Did I hear seed give away!! Woot!
You will laugh but I have never ever tried Swiss chard before! Getting free seeds will give me great incentives to plant and eat it. Pick me pick me! 🤓
alice nakajima it's not hard to get seeds
Is swiss chard self fertile? I have one plant that overwintered and it is flowering, I don't want to have to keep watering it if it isn't going to produce seed.
I think I cut the seeds off too early, they aren’t brown yet. Will they still ripen inside a brown bag ok?
Loved the video! Would love some Swiss chars seeds!
Hello there. I live in Texas and I had a problem with my Swiss chard. I directly sowed them outside, they germinated but got very leggy. I am not sure why. Any tips?
Swish chard goes to seed to easily here in the UK and the same with spinach, it can be a pain in the neck, but what can you do?
Swim chard...yummm
How did you know I was about to look for a video on seed saving for Swiss Chard? What awesome timing. How about one on beets?
Well....... We would have one on beets if... Just watch the video "they took them all"
MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living WOW! That's messed up! Sorry about your loss.
Do I still water the plant while seeds are forming
Wow! Seed give away...Grrreat! I'm in!