Bright Lights

Back on the 20th May, I mentioned I had planted some seeds of Chard Bright Lights. I put six seeds in one of the deeper fruit boxes and that now seems about right. One seed produces a few clumps of leaves, each with a different vibrantly coloured stem.

Take a look!

I cook the leaves like spinach..

..and eat the stems raw in salad.

I'm really pleased with how they're doing, in fact, I can barely get through it quick enough to keep up. I started off eating the leaves raw as a salad leaf, but found them, as a friend in work so delicately put it, rather hard to digest! Now I mostly just get through the stems, which add a good splash of colour and crunch to my daily lunch of Roof Top Salad.