SC - Another Chard Name

[Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir]

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From: David Dendy <ddendy at silk.net>
To: SCA Cooks <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: 19. október 1999 16:37
Subject: SC - Another Chard Name


Francesco Sirene wrote:
>Lucullus is the name for the green (as opposed to the red-veined) variety
of
>chard, at least in the US and Canada.


Jane Grigson says in her Vegetable Book, under the heading Swiss chard and
other leaf-beets, that "in the seakale beet, the stalks are even larger and
more pronounced, as its name suggests, than in Swiss chard" - so the names
do not seem to be synonymous. She also mentions spinach beet leaf in the
same paragraph.

And some more varieties - information found at this site :

http://www.nfarley.dircon.co.uk/thomas-etty/vegtables/greens.html

Leaf or Seakale Beet

Perpetual Spinach
Introduced around 1790. Valuable on dry soil where true Spinach runs to
seed.

Lucullus
Introduced into cultivation in 1914.

Silver or Seakale Beet
Noted in 1845, and probably around much earlier, with many of the major seed
houses offering 'Improved' varieties by the 1870's.

Rhubarb Chard
A red stalked variety looking very attractive in a vegetable flower garden
setting. Possibly dating from as early as 1857, when a Ruby Chard appears in
a contemporary listing.

Fordhook Giant
Known in the colonies since 1750, this is still one of the most widely grown
varieties. Resembles Perpetual Spinach but with darker green leaves.

Nanna

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