Detroit Red Beet/ exposure courtesy of seedsavers.org
Just like with Swiss chard , now is the fourth dimension to imbed common beet . beet ( or sugarbeet ) take around 60 days from seed to maturity and should be leave a blot in the garden where it can have time to spring up because it takes some fourth dimension to ripen . You should plant them now in the spring and if you replant them in gloaming you may let them overwinter . It is a biennial that we develop as an annual to reap the root . For more flavourful beets , grow them in nerveless circumstance . There are many dissimilar case and coloring of Beta vulgaris from Golden , Bulls Blood Red , Chiogga , Detroit Red , Early Wonder and Cylindra to name a few . Bulls Blood Red is grown mostly for it ’s beautiful red leaves that many masses practice in their salad greens .
I have to confess . Until a few years ago , I was n’t a big common beet fan . Perhaps it was because my mom yield us pickled beets or tasteless cooked beets from a can while I was a child ( sorry mom ) . In her defense , we lived in a desert and back then it was hard to get smart anything . So I was n’t very enthusiastic about growing them . Then two affair bump to change my mind about beets .
Detroit Red Beet/ photo courtesy of seedsavers.org
THING # 1 : One day a friend had me over for luncheon and put roast common beet in with a wampum salad and I was hooked . beet get really sweet when roast in an oven on low heat . They sorta get caramelize and are piddling nugget of sweet .
THING#2 : Two ally from Australia who are vegetarian came over for dinner party one night and grind a natural beet and carrot on top of a lettuce salad . It was so bright and colourful and the tender beet had a tremendous savor . We sprinkled feta cheese and helianthus come on it and dress it with a balsamy vinaigrette . I get laid it .
Growing Instructions :
-Beets like alkaline soil - pH scale between 6.7 to 7 which is great around here . They wish a caboodle of organic cloth added to the soil . They require ordered wet level but can tolerate soils that are broken in fertility .
-Beets can be come out inside if you like or lineal seed in other spring .
-Plant seeds every 1 inch , thin to about every 4 inches after they are 4 - 5 inch tall to give them room to produce . Snip off the cuttings instead of pulling them to not disturb the remaining roots .
-For good flavor , beets like direct light and cool growing conditions which is arrant for a spring crop and fall craw . Put pale yellow around base of plant in summer to keep roots cooler if you still have them .
-When harvest , cut off the tops to within one in and keep in refrigerator .
