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Beets (also known as Beetroot) should be a staple of every vegetable garden. They’re really easy to grow from seed – and you don’t have to wait long ’til harvest time.
Beets have quirky seed that produce multiple plants, so they need special aftercare to avoid overcrowding.
In this short video we explain some simple guidelines to help you harvest a bumper crop of beets this year.
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Beetroot chocolate cake is delicious, I highly recommend it.
Hey Ben, I sowed my beet seeds about 3 weeks ago and they have germinated but have not grown any true leaves.Any suggestions?
Great video, thank you. I would love to find out more about the planting app or software you showed please!
very well explained
What are the fertilizer requirements?
One tip is to NOT THIN. I planted like a raised bed four feet wide by twenty feet with beets. You’re right they push each other. I made four rows and planted seeds every inch or two. Not thinning helped I believe in my case because when you have hundred degree weeks and the city or town only allows you to water twice a month for irrigation having those extra leaves and fairly dense it reduces evaporation. It was packed full of beets. There were some small and a few gaps but they were fairly close together. Of course we only planted them once at the start june we didn’t do several crops.
I make some rather intense green drinks and I always add 2 beets into the mix. Which confuses family and friends that taste it because it's never green.
The fresh uncooked greens are fabulous in salads!
Great tips thanks. I'm not sure what happened to my beets this year, I followed the same process as last year. I started my seeds as normal in early April in my large container, then kept them in my greenhouse until the end of May when I transferred them to the garden. The leaves are very big & impressive, but the actual beet has not grown? They are long & thin instead of bulbous & round, which has meant the leaves have lost the ability to stand up & are now lying on the soil. Where did I go wrong?
Eat to much and you'll have the runns
Beets are my favorite vegetable. I eat everything. The stems and leaves are so good for salad and juicing.
Thanks for the great video! I should also say that you very mildly resemble another important beet grower Dwight Schrute 🙂
Thanks!
I use dolomite. Would that be organic matter or synthetic matter?
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Hi Ben! Another great video, but I have a different problem with beets.
Growing up in southern Michigan, beets were sliced purple things that came in cans or jars and tasted like dirt. Now, as an adult in Florida who loves to garden, i'm surrounded by family who love beets, so some years ago I started growing them.
I'll never forget that first taste of homegrown beetroots, oven roasted with a little olive oil and some salt and pepper…
like little sweetened clods of dirt. Yuck. I do love the tops, raw or sauteed, but definitely not the root part!
I still grow them, only because my wife and kids love them.
Next harvest, i'm going to try pickling some, so please wish me luck,
or please give me a better idea/recipe!
Wonderful video, thank you!!!
i have been trying to grow beets and it doesnot work out well .thanks fir the tips let me try out this time
am in uganda, what could be the best varieties to be grown in uganda
Mix one gram of boric acid in a liter of water and mist the leaves occasionally to prevent ugly leaves. Beets need boron, but you have to be careful. It doesn't take a lot of boron to reach toxic levels.
My beets always grow nicely, but when it's time to harvest them I find that something (mice?) has been eating the tops that are above the soil. How do I prevent that from happening in the future? I almost never get a harvest because they've all been eaten away at the top before they're ready.
Harvest the seeds of bolted plants
Where do I get the beet seeds off the beet to make this sustainable?
Hi I’m new to all this how do I get your garden planner
they are called beetroot in English and beets in Simplified American English, either way, they are delicious raw, freshly boiled, roast or pickled.
I don't sow mine in rows, I sow as a crowd in a raised bed which negates the need to weed.
I start harvesting as baby beetroot, which naturally thins out the remainder.
These things like a lot of water.
leaves are edible too, use them as salad greens.
Make a soup with garlic and balsamic vinegar, a little flour for thickening and serve with pyrogi, spuds and/or meatballs….a little fried onion to garnish…delicious