Silverbeet

When your silverbeet starts to go to seed, just chop them off at the base and they will literally re-grow from the roots. Charleen Baker, Auckland Every year I let a couple of my silverbeet plants go to seed. When the seed dries on the plant, I shake it over the garden and heaps of plants pop up. I haven’t bought silverbeet seedlings for many years. Katrina McNab, New Plymouth

30 Money Saving Veges


Get two years of nutritious greens from a single sowing of hardy silverbeet. Given the fashion for gourmet greens, it’s easy to overlook the old standards such as ‘Fordhook Giant’ silverbeet yet these are stalwarts for steaming and stir-frying. The...

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