Are you looking for a simple way on how to grow some Swiss chard in
containers? In this video, I'm gonna show you how to grow Swiss chard in container
Hi this is Jeremy Starke here from Green Thumb Gardner here to give you some tips
tutorials and reviews for all your garden needs in today's video I'm gonna
show you a very simple way on how to get some so Swiss chard into your into
containers for your garden this is part of our our Victory Garden series there's
a link right up above of all the other videos in the series that you can take a
look at but today I'm gonna focus mainly on Swiss chard these are some these
Swiss chard plants that I've had growing from seed but you can you can start
these from from seed anytime you can also you can also start these from just
getting plants at the store I think they have these similar to these six-pack I
always save these when I get stuff from the store but you can get out of these
six packs or maybe they come in like four packs something at the store
they're already ready to go so some of the main things that you want to you
want to keep in mind when you grow in Swiss chard is you want to have a good
spot for it whether you grow this in your garden or in a container you want
to have a nice sunny spot where these can grow these world tolerate a little
bit of shade but these will actually do much better and full Sun or at least
five to six hours of Sun sunlight throughout the day this will give it a
good shot and these things you've never seen Swiss chard before they're actually
a little very beautiful plant so you can I'm actually gonna plant these right in
my front yard like right up in my stairs coming into my front house so I thought
I'd just show you before I get these in the ground and the container you know
just kind of some tips for you on making sure these are successful so the spot I
have in front of my house and I'll show you in just a moment it's
very sunny and the container I have is it's a fairly large container but you
can you can actually use a much smaller container if you didn't have the same
size that I have it doesn't really take much either as far as kind of nutrients
so you may be just a balanced soil balanced NPK and if you're not sure what
that is that's the nitrogen the phosphorus and the potassium that kind
of makes up the the soil composition the only thing I think you have to do a
little bit of is the is the the phosphorus which is which is
good for the the roots of the of the actual plant so these things will cool
if you make sure you put that in there and I'll show you what some of the
amendments that I put in when I first plant it but really you
don't have to do much once you get it into your container there's really not
much you have to do other making sure that it's watered it doesn't like a lot
of water but it you know it does need some regular water that you can that you
want to keep at it so just don't let the the soil that it's the container that's
in that's right now another tip to when you're doing anything in a container it
just speaking of the watering is make sure that you have some drainage holes
on the bottom of the container because some containers they actually don't come
with them so just make sure there's at least one hole in there so you do water
this drain and if it's raining out it's not gonna get completely soaked but
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started with this but as I said you can start out with you can either do this by
seed you want to plant these at least I don't know maybe three or four weeks
before I'd be actually gonna put them on maybe five weeks I put a couple if
you're using something similar to this I put a maybe like two or three seeds in
here and then you can leave maybe one or two of them in here
you want them to be somewhat fairly to get a little bit a little bit large
doesn't they don't have to be this large to eat a plant tomorrow these one just
happen to be you know this large mine got around to plant these out but you
can um you can actually transplant them with a little bit smaller you're gonna
get them from the store they're gonna probably be close to this size maybe a
little bit larger or so so there's different varieties of them these ones I
think it's a special II don't remember the exact one but I'll uh I'll put it in
the show notes I'll put what this one is I can't remember
I look at my seed package two twenties or but I know it's the colorful one if
you've never had switch try before it tastes really great but it also looks
beautiful so what I like to do is for any kind of
container that I have my mix is is fairly simple is I do peat
moss and I also add in some manure compost my own compost I make I added
some warm compost and then I also add in a little bit of perlite and whatever
called vermiculite most of it is perlite you can see those are little white
little balls that you might see now if you don't have if you don't really want
it to be you know mix you can get just a regular potting soil
I would just try to get the one without the fertilizer in it you don't really
need it and it's just it's you know it's up to you but you don't have to put that
in there if you did if that's the one when you have that that's fine that you
know this point like I said it's not really too finicky what I like to do is
just kind of loosen up the soil a little bit if you've already have a container
going so just get it loosened up a little bit and then some of the
amendments that I always put in for most of my containers you have to put you
have to put some some different amendments in because you know this is a
party thing so it's not going to absorb anything for the ground so whatever's in
here is what they're gonna get then the nutrients from so the main thing that
that this plant loves is is our phosphorus and this this actually is is
a good blend it also has calcium in as well this is called bone mill this is
actually ground-up I think I believe it's actually grown up bone you know so
that's that's what they call for the name so I'm not really too scientific
when it comes to thing I try to keep it easy you know we like to just have a
victory garden here so I just take maybe one or two small handfuls because you
know this is just a small little container there's not really anything
big maybe maybe three and I put that in there and I do add just a little bit of
blood meal to maybe just a little bit like a little like that and then this
stuff is uh this is a rock dust as you might guess this stuff to actually takes
a little while to break down but I just always added in every year because I
know I added in some last year for this so that one spot was trying to break
down now but either way I just I also do is I make sure the soil at the top
just kind of nice it's really these these roots do go down a little bit they
don't they don't get too deep in the pot but you want to have maybe good I'd say
about a good six seven inches below the surface you know for this to really grow
the bigger that you have you know that the better it is but if you just have a
small one that's fine too so I just kind of mix it up a little bit and make sure
the soil is nice and loose and then when I do if you're transplanting it from
here you also you want to make sure that you that you watering it before you
actually put in this so I kind of just give it a nice soaking right and so what
I'm gonna do for this I actually got two pots and there's six plants so I'm going
to do three in each one so depending on the size you have your pot you know you
don't want to overcrowd it too much but if you add if you did put like four or
five of them in here it's still going to grow it's not you're not gonna grow but
I would keep it probably in this size container and I think this is maybe
about a foot a foot across I'd probably stick with just three or
four at the most so if you ever never used one of these
things before you just take the little packets you squeeze the bottom of it and
then eventually it's gonna kind of wiggle out you want it to be gentle you
don't want to break the two stem off you just kind of break it up on the bottom
here and then in your soil what I do is just kind of just do like we're gonna
plant them so maybe a little triangle and this one since I'm gonna plant three
of them and I just want you know enough so that I can stick this in
so I actually loosen up the dirt a little bit cuz that if it's been in the
pot for a little bit too long am i you might have a lot of roots at the end but
this one's pretty healthy so and all they do is just stick it right in here
and then I put the driven around it and I press it down okay
I'm gonna do these three is welcome so what are you doing you just squeeze
the bottom of it you don't want to just pull it right out because like I said
you could damage the root but this is pretty hard even if it just kind of
pulled off a little bit break it up a little bit right there these are gonna
look fantastic - this is ready at the beginning of my door so whether you
start getting really big this is a really good spot because it's got a Sun
you're gonna be very colorful and I think this is a rainbow one so there's
you have this yellow on red so it's gonna be pretty colorful and you can
actually eat this do it straight all right so this one looks like a little
loop mount so if you did to see yeah it's got a little more roots kind of
coming out of it I'll stick this from the other hole right here and once I get
it kind of pressed up what I'd like to do is you know this thing will
eventually kind of stand up on its own but I kind of like borrow the soil up a
little bit so that it's it's kind of scanning up that way there it gets the
maximum Sun it has and then if you want I mean you can really fill this in a
little bit if you need it too as well if I wanted to add a little more dirt in
here and I might do that as well and then once some once you get it in there
you just want to make sure you water it really good and it's gonna need some
some watering it's not gonna you don't need a water slick every day but just
when the when the soil does start getting dry if this is this is a really
sunny spot so you know as it gets warmer and stuff I might have to water this
every day but for the most part I'm just gonna
check it and if it's it's still a little moist then I'll do it I'll do it the
next day or later on the day or something that's it that's all that's
all there really is to to planting Swiss chard and a container and you know this
is one of those things you know you know with any kind of planting with a a
victory garden that you want to have is that you want to be creative with what
you have and what you have to work with so if you just have containers then then
just make a beautiful garden or just contain with containers I mean look at
this this is right in front of my house right in front of these flowers and and
right every people gonna see this as soon as they walk in and this is
beautiful gonna grow into this nice bounty of
Swiss chard and you know I'll still be able to eat this as well so hopefully
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