This swiss chard plant was a huge success.  There have been many pounds worth of swiss chard harvested from here.  Unfortunately our earthworms were the main benefactor as we found we didn’t eat it often enough to keep it in the aquaponic grow bed.  Also unfortunately, our two year old oscar fish who was powering our aquaponic grow beds with nutrients died a while back, and Crackle, the replacement fish is still quite small.  We have a green pepper plant that is starting to bare fruit, but the leaves are yellowing which is most likely from lack of nutrients.  Therefore these two main factors made me reach the conclusion that this mature swiss chard plant must come out.

Can you believe the size of this stalk/root system?!