The day after rain is best time to pick slugs off the plants; they're so small but do quite a bit of damage. I got at least ten off the chard patch today. The leaves are big enough though, even with cutting out the parts that have holes there's still plenty. I wash them extra with a bit of soap.
This one plant has started bolting. I don't think I can save chard seed; I just learned that chard and beets are in the same family (one we eat the leaves, the other the root) so they would cross.
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