If you're a leafy green lover but you've been having trouble growing it in the

summer well that's pretty natural because most of our leafy greens at least

wilt in the heat and really have a hard time on these hot long days. But if you still

want to do it for fall, then I have the crop for you and that of course would be charred.

I love charred. I didn't before I started gardening. In fact I

probably didn't actually know what charred was before I started gardening but now

first of all you don't even have to like it to grow it. It's a fantastic beautiful ornamental because you can grow rainbow charred

Oreal orange Ruby red. There's all sorts of different colors and the stem color is what's so striking even pink charred charred, that actually, believe it or not, persists down into the roots.

And so if you rip it out of the ground, if you're ready to harvest it, take a look at the roots.

They have a color that is very similar, if not equivalent to the color of the stem.

So fantastic, fantastic crop just for the beauty, but of course also one that you should be considering as an edible.

It is a close relative of the beat. You'll notice that

those two seeds look effectively the exact same and it's one of the more

tolerant greens that you can grow. I've grown mine throughout the summer in fact but also in a

milder climate you don't have to worry about covering it too much in the winter.

It seems to hold up pretty well and it honestly is quite a nutritious crop. Okay let's talk about how to

sew it and grow it in the fall. You can direct sew I would recommend direct sewing you

can soak the seat a little bit if you want to, but the

chart seed actually is more than one seed. It's a compound seed, so you'll have more than one in one of those

seed balls that you plant into the ground. Just make sure you give yourself about 50-ish days

before first frost.

But again, like I said, if you have a frost coming up

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