Bed recipe · field-tested

Swiss chard + Turnip

Mangold + Majrova

Illustration
coming

How the bed is laid out

A double black raised bed. Turnip in the row along the long side, colourful chard in the innermost row.

Chard's deep roots and turnip's shallow ones stay out of each other's way.

In this bed

The season, month by month

MarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct
Swiss chard sown indoors S
Turnip direct-sown S
Sow — indoors or direct, per row note Transplant Harvest

A friendly reminder: every garden plays by its own rules. Zones, soil, weather and a hundred small things decide what works — so this is how I did it and what worked for me, not a promise. Try, learn, adjust, try again.. that's half the fun anyway.

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