Description
Fireworks makes a beautiful addition to your garden (vegetable or ornamental) and a very nutritious addition to your plate. You can 'eat the rainbow' by growing just one variety! It's a celebration of colour and diversity. You'll find stems in icy white, canary yellow, zesty orange, and cerise red with leaves ranging from verdant green to deep burgundy.
Say goodbye to uniformity and say hello to diverse form and colour. This is a diverse interbreeding population of plants rather than a single variety. If you dig up a seed cluster as its germinating and you'll see different coloured shoots stretching out of a single cluster. Each cluster is made up of several individual seeds, each with their own unique genetics. What a joy.
- Sow: April (undercover) & July (outside or undercover) for continuous supply.
- Plant: 4 weeks after sowing, or sow direct.
- Harvest: Baby leaves in 6 weeks, big leaves in 8-10 weeks. Harvest outside leaves.
- Kitchen: Eat baby leaves raw and cook older leaves - steam, sautee, or braise. Cook stems a little longer than leaves. Pairs with acid (lemon, balsamic vinegar, lime), fats (goats cheese, walnuts, coconut milk, butter), salty (olives, feta, parmesan), aromatics (chilli, nutmeg, dill, fennel, thyme).
3g (approx 150 seeds) We pack seeds by weight, the number of seeds in a packet is an estimate.
Beta vulgaris var. cicla
Germ Rate: 84% Sept 25
