Swiss chard ‚Hunsrücker Schnittmangold’

Ripening

mittelfrüh

Harvest

Week 24 to 44

Vigour

stark

Origin

Hunsrück, Deutschland

Open-pollinated

Yes

Heritage variety

Yes

Use

Kochen, Frisch

Disease resistance

Schossneigung: gering

About this variety

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An old landrace from the Hunsrück, grown purely as a leaf chard: slim stems, but plenty of tender, dark green foliage. You harvest it as a cut-and-come-again chard, leaf by leaf from the outside, and the plant keeps regrowing from the centre. It is tough, hardy in mild locations and shoots early again in its second year. Open-pollinated and undemanding, a proven variety for the self-sufficiency garden.

Mild yet hearty in flavour, fuller in the mouth than the fine stem chard types. Steamed it tastes like spinach, only with a little more bite.

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.