Spotlight on Silverbeet

Thanks Jade and Inaya for sharing about silverbeet. It's great to know that our extended PCS family (Jade's rabbits) are also enjoying vegies from our garden.

Silverbeet is really easy to grow. It is ready is eat at around 6 weeks after planting and grow in almost any soil type.

Silverbeet is fab because it is  a cut and come again plant, which means if you are careful when you harvest, you can continue to harvest for an entire season, if not more. If it does start to flower you just cut it right back to the base and usually it will recover and sprout again.

You can eat the dark green glossy leaves or the wide cream stalks. They are really tasty just lightly cooked in a saucepan with the just the water on them from washing and a little butter. If you add silverbeet to cooked potatoes in a hot frying pan and add lightly beaten eggs, you can make a tasty frittata.