chard plant

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chard plant - beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks

Beta vulgaris cicla, chard, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard

chard, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard - long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves

beet, Beta vulgaris, common beet - biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop

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The result generally showed about 50% drop in height of Swiss chard plant at 100% leachate irrigation compared with the distilled and tap water irrigated treatments which recorded 37.7 cm height at eight weeks after transplant.

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Between the vines, lizards flit around through the tall grass, fennel and mint, stray zucchini and chard plants. Occasionally, parsley springs from the crook of a vine and when a vine dies, it's replaced by a new one, leaving old and new next to each other.