A very valuable green culture, used as an early salad culture for cooking borscht, salads, sandwiches, as well as a very valuable forage crop, young leaves have a delicate spinach flavor.

Barese can be grown for exceptionally tender baby greens, or it can be grown to maturity for an early crop of a unique type of Swiss chard. Can be harvested and sold as whole plants, much like pac choi.

Arguably the best tasting Red Chard with a mild, juicy flavour and, unlike many Red Chards, has no harsh aftertastes. With excellent tolerance to downy mildew, Chard 'Fantasy' is ideal for successional sowings through the spring and summer.