Swiss chard

I've grown what I thought was OK Swiss chard in the past. Certainly, I've managed to enjoy the harvest enough to post about it.But this year's cool spring and abundant rain has produced leafy robust red chard that's been amazing.  Now maybe the extra mushroom compost (the real thing) along with...

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Swiss chard

I wish I had a photo to go along with this post! I harvested lots of chard from the mountain beds earlier in the week (they were starting to bolt).We had part of it (the harvest) cooked a couple of days ago, but I included the final harvest in a chard salad to take to a local foods potluck this evening.  Yum. I'd not made a fresh chard salad before, amazingly, but chard (chopped finely)...

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