![]() ![]() You can leave the roots in the soil to harvest through autumn but it is best to lift them, screw off the leaves and store them, unwashed, in moist compost in a shed for winter use. From an April sowing you should have some baby beet by August with the remaining getting bigger and bigger till autumn. ![]() As soon as the roots start to swell you can pull some roots along the row, leaving the remainders to become bigger. Keep the rows weedfree and keep them watered in dry weather. If you can water the night before so much the better. As with any thinning, choose a dry day, preferably not too hot, and water immediately after thinning to prevent wilting. These young seedlings can be used as salad leaves. When the seedlings are large enough to handle, with a few leaves, they should be thinned to about 5cm apart. I need to investigate how useful the colour is from a nutritional point of view since, in my experience, often with great alarm, I find that the colour passes through the body unchanged!īeetroot can be sown from March (if the soil is warm) though till June. Because the colouring in beet is part of the point, and nutritional benefit, I can’t see a lot of point in white beet. Maybe it is just me but I found that, when eating yellow beet raw, I found they made my throat sore – strange. I would argue that there is not a huge difference in the flavour of most of the reds though the yellows are suggested to be sweeter. Though initially odd, the cylindrical kinds, which grow partly above the soil surface are a good idea, especially if you are going to slice and pickle them – lots of evenly sized slices! The long-rooted kinds with tapering roots are the least common. You can then choose from round beet or cylindrical and long-rooted kinds. Monogerm varieties produce just one seed per fruit so eliminating this problem – obviously an advantage for commercial growers – hence their devlopment. When these germinate the three or four seedlings need to be thinned quickly. ![]() When you sow beet seeds the thing you actually sow is not a seed but a fruit or nutlet that contains several seeds. When buying seeds you have a choice of F1 hybrids, which tend to be vigorous and more uniform, ordinary hybrids, and then some that are called ‘monogerm’. We are most familiar with red beetroot but there is also yellow or golden, white and striped beet. Beetroot is basically the same plant as leaf beet, perpetual spinach and Swiss chard, all forms of the native sea beet. Ignoring the nutritional riches that they contain they are more adaptable than used for just pickling.īeetroot is easy to grow, has few pests and has the advantage that it can be eaten at almost every stage.īut first the basics. Although I don’t share this aversion I understand their thinking because the roots are sweet and earthy and rather strange as a vegetable. I find this remarkable because, when I talk to people, so many people say they dislike, or even hate, beetroot. I am not sure if sales have altered, but a few years ago beetroot seed was the most popular vegetable seed sold. You are here: Home » Growing veg: Beetroot Growing veg: Beetroot
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