I have had the same problem with bright lights. My first planting and only two germinated. I called Johnny's and they told me it might be the heat so I will reseed and move the containers where they get partial shade and hope for the best. I am doing the same thing with my summer lettuce varities. I hope that I can get them all growing as all the other has bolted.

Glad you enjoyed it! Mmmm - that sounds yummy!! If your in the Westminster area soon, got tons more of it for a little while longer ;^D Marj

This post on chard got me hungry for it soooooo... I picked a bunch of Chard today and made rollups... Filling: 2 cups Chicken broth 1 cup rice Boil until waters is gone but don't cook completely. While rice is cooking: Fry 3/4 lbs ground beef 1 med onion cut up fine 2 cloves garlic chopped up fine add rice to meat when done... add 1/4 can of diced tomatoes. add 1/4 tsp Cheyenne pepper add 1 tablespoon basil take 12-15 large chard leaves, cut off the bottom of the stalk. place in a sieve and pour boiling water from kettle over chard to blanch it. take mixture off of heat and add table spoons of Parmesan Cheese. Lay a leave of Chard out and fill using tooth pics to hold together. Place in Pan... Take the rest of the dice tomatoes and put a frying pan with 1 cup of water, 2 tablespoons of sugar 1 tsp basil 1/4 Tsp of Cheyenne pepper 1 glove chopped garlic. bring to a boil for a couple of minutes and then pour over the chard rolls. Bake at 375 for 35 minutes. At 25 minutes sprinkle with parmesan cheese. MMMMMMM GOOD!

Swiss chard is apparently poisonous to me. Although I grew up eating it, if I eat it now I get to experience a very violent, painful total system purge similar to the effects of food poisoning. Sure that it couldn't really be the healthy Swiss chard I'm growing organically in my garden that was causing this food poisoning reaction, I sautéed some chard for supper last night. Suffice it to say, it was a long, most miserable night, and sadly I have crossed chard off of my list of veggies I enjoy.