For veggies that look good and taste great, add Bonnie Plants Swiss Chard to your garden. Start with a live plant instead of seeds to add an instant burst of color and texture to veggie gardens. You'll enjoy it in meals sooner, too! Colorful gold, pink, purple, red, or orange stems contrast with dark-green or bronze crinkled leaves of this cool-season plant. The unique, pretty plant brightens garden spaces, so grow it where you can enjoy the view. Use highly nutritious Swiss Chard like spinach or beet greens: harvest young leaves to eat fresh, or add any size leaves to quiches, casseroles, stir-fries, or smoothies. For a long harvest, start by snipping the outer leaves first: the plant continues to produce new leaves. Plant Swiss Chard in full to partial sun, 12 to 18 inches apart. It appreciates some shade in hot climates. Swiss Chard grows 18 to 24 inches tall and matures in 45 days. Be sure to water your plant when the top inch of soil feels dry. Bonnie Plants live plant varieties are designed for your gardening success, whether they're disease-resistant, heat-tolerant, space-savers, or produce abundant harvests.

• Create a rainbow in your garden with Bonnie Plants Swiss Chard; called 'Bright Lights', the plant has multi-colored stems that contrast beautifully with dark-green or bronze leaves, adding a burst of color in beds and on plates
• As tasty as it is pretty, Bonnie Plants Swiss Chard grows great in cool weather, providing a long harvest; slow to bolt, the large leaves with colorful, flat, prominent mid-ribs grow in an attractive upright rosette; frost tolerant
• Swiss Chard grows great in patio containers, windowboxes, raised beds, and in-ground veggie gardens; plant this pretty veggie alone or with cool- season pansies for a lovely show
• Use Swiss Chard much like spinach or beet greens; eat young leaves fresh in salads, or harvest mature leaves to create culinary delicacies like Swiss chard and mushroom galette, frittatas, chard and bacon linguine, or vegetarian lasagna
• Swiss Chard grows 18 to 24 inches tall and is ready to begin harvesting in 45 days; snip the outer leaves first, and the plant will continue to grow and produce new, delicious leaves for use throughout the season