Crop Focus: Beets
Average yield per 30″x25′ bed: 75 lbs. $300 per bed.
Sold at $4 per pound or .75 lb bunches at $3 each. (no greens)
Direct seeded at 4 rows per bed using the Earthway Seeder (chard plate)
Transplanted at 4 rows, 3 inches apart.
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You bet I refer others to your vids! Always good information with a Great presentation!
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Thanks for sharing, didn't quite understand how you distinguished with the 'ready to harvest' beets from the 'not ready'.
Nice looking beets! Too bad you can't encourage the restaurants to use the tops also. They are delicious just boiled, drained and topped with butter!
Great videos, I love the POV cam. About how long does it take you to grow a beet that size? Feels like they take a long time to get to that size for me.
Curtis, love the crop focus videos. It helps to see the size and quality of the crops your harvesting and how you are selecting them. Keep ' em coming. Thanks!
Curtis, love the crop focus videos. It helps to see the size and quality of the crops your harvesting and how you are selecting them. Keep ' em coming. Thanks!
What beet do you use?
I love your Crop Focus vids
Two questions about transplanting beets seedlings:
1. My leaves have become large and no longer hold there own weight in the started trays. Will they grow upright again as they mature once transplanted outside?
2. How deep do you usually plant beet seedlings?
Love seeing some random persons front yard a farm. Norm violations amuse me. 🙂
Gday Curtis, Noticed a previous vid about not thinning crops – presuming you've just moved on from thinning and removing it from your routine? Thanks heaps
Hi Curtis!
Why not to cut the beat greens first and then crop?
Thank you!
When you say, "4 rows directly seeded and 4 rows transplanted," are you saying that you did 8 rows in that 1 bed?
I noticed there is no fabric in your beet beds. How are you managing the weeds in your fabric-less beds? I have a several acre garden that my wife and I till and tend each year. it is back breaking work and the weeding is endless. Our evenings and weekends are consumed with weeding. I am looking to convert to this method. But crop variety seems limited.
Hi Curtis, I have seen some of your video's mentioning you are using beet greens for salads, is this the same crop? Are you harvesting the greens when the beets are young and then allowing them to mature for the roots?
I think the idea behind restaurants wanting to leave a bit of green on root veggies is it gives a better representation of freshness. Typically in a grocery store, the greens are totally stripped which makes sense in a way because the greens won't last as long as the root anyway (so that bag of beets or carrots could very well be a month old, or shipped from "who knows where") but if you serve root veggies in your restaurants, having this bit of green showing, the customer KNOWS it was recently picked, likely local & many feel good about this, since they are supporting local markets.
Hiya Curtis. Could you share how much seed you use per bed for direct seeding beets? I can't find it in your book. Also, do you still do your first planting of beets as transplants from the nursery?
hey Curtis, How you planted the Beets?
direct seedling and cover seeds or not cover with soil?
when you bunch your radishes how many are in that bunch
please tell me u eat the beet tops .. they're better then the beets
Do you direct seed or transplant your beets?
Where can you find those totes?
Curtis, do you fertilize them and what do you give them, how often? I put down bonemeal and amended the soil with some aged the manure at planting time.My beets look beautiful but after 60 days the root is still about 1”. I do harvest among them, thinning and use the tops in salads. I am aware that they can get tough and fibrous if they are in the ground a long time. I give them plenty of water so it’s not that.