SC - Another Chard Name
Lorix
lorix at trump.net.au
Wed Oct 20 19:19:40 PDT 1999
Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir wrote:
> >snip
> 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.
>
>snip
When I had asked previously at shops for chard I got some very strange looks and
"never heard of it". Thanks to Kylie Walker (and know you) I had found that in
Australia, it is sold as Silverbeet.
Thanks Everyone for their help,
Lorix
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