Swiss chard ‚Bright Lights’

Ripening

mittel

Harvest

Week 26 to 44

Vigour

mittel

Growth habit

Stielmangold, bunte Stiele (gelb, orange, pink, rot, weiß)

Origin

Neuseeland

Introduced

1998

Open-pollinated

Yes

Use

Salat, Frisch, Kochen

Disease resistance

Schossneigung: mittel

About this variety

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The ‚Bright Lights’ variety offers a colorful mix that produces stems in yellow, orange, pink, red and white, each plant surprising you with a different color. It is a showstopper in the garden and fits just as well in a perennial bed as in the vegetable plot. Young leaves go raw into salads, larger ones you steam like spinach. It is self‑seeding, so you can replant the best plants next year.

Mild and fresh, the young leaves are pleasantly tender. Taste-wise hardly distinguishable from single‑colored varieties, here the eye matters most.

Care and diseases

Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.