Q. One of the crops I love to grow in my garden is Swiss chard; I love to stir fry it in olive oil with garlic and pine nuts. Although every year I battle some insect (I suspect earwigs, but I'm not ...

How to Plant and Grow Swiss Chard originally appeared on Dengarden. Swiss chard is a member of the beet family and is easy to spot in a garden due to its colorful, prominent midribs and large petioles ...

Some of my favorite cool-season crops are beets, spinach and Swiss chard. They all belong to the same plant family, Amaranthaceae, so they have the same cultural needs and potential insect problems.

Question: For some reason, this year, my beet and chard leaves are being eaten up by some insect. They don’t take bites out of the leaves. Instead, it seems like they burrow inside the leaves, leaving ...

I don’t know whether it’s due to the close companions (bush beans) or just that no attractant has been planted in that raised bed before, but I’ve had at least three flushes of beautiful Swiss chard ...

Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are a major agricultural pest, especially of crops grown under glass or other shelters. Nematicides are expensive and increasingly restricted on environmental ...