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Beta vulgaris
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Beet
Beta vulgaris
WD
Also known as
beetroot (EN)
table beet (EN)
garden beet (EN)
red beet (EN)
golden beet (EN)
How to sow beet: Direct seed into soil. Thin to 7cm apart when seedlings are 5cm tall.
Sun requirement for beet: Plant in Full Sun
Typically grown for its round or cylindrical taproot, the leaves of the beet are also edible. Leaves resemble Swiss chard on a smaller scale and are good sautéed. The taproot, or beet, ranges in color from deep red to gold, orange, or white and red striped. The beet has a delicious, earthy flavor with a touch of sweetness to it when roasted.
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- seed packets
Growing beets
Annual
living and reproducing in a single year or lessMedian lifespan
21 weeksFirst harvest expected
20 weeks after plantingLast harvest expected
18 weeks after plantingHeight
25cmSpread
10cmRow Spacing
10cmGrown for
whole plant harvested 6 timesHow members grow beets
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Varieties of beet
Chioggia beet
Beta vulgaris
cylindrical beet
Beta vulgaris
Early Wonder Beet
Beta vulgaris
golden BX mangel beet
Beta vulgaris
golden BX manglebeet
Beta vulgaris
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What people are saying about beets
Planting outdoors & fruit trees
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Coming together
by shawnacscott,
This weekend I had two full days to really focus on the yard, and I made the most of it. With the intermittent help of several others over the course of the weekend, I got both easement planter boxes filled with compost and soil, cleaned up and weeded the alley, got the stump pulled from the coni…
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Getting ready for spring!
by maco,
I've got seeds either on-hand or ordered for just about everything I'm starting from seed this year. I've been working out what I want to plant, and this is the plan I've come up with for the 72 square feet of my backyard raised beds:
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State of the Spring Garden
by black_hound,
Finally some seasonably warm weather.
The peas are shooting up rather quickly. The lettuce has sprouted. Beets are up. Turnip are getting their second set of leaves so I will be thinning them out this week. Radish going strong. And I believe I…
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Inception!
by melannen,
I HAVE SPROUTS!
I'm way too excited about this for somebody my age.
There are a lot of beets coming up. In fact, way more sprouts than seeds I planted?? Do "beet seeds" actually each have more than one seed in them? Am I going to have to figure out how to thin them earlier than…
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Seeds!
by maco,
All the seeds I ordered this year have shown up. I've got seeds for 7 kinds of dye plants, though I won't be planting all of those. Some of them get too big for the space I'm allocated.
I got Burpee's heirloom seeds for summer squash, purple-top white globe turnips, chioggia [b…
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Growing Status
by black_hound,
I have been concerned about my pea planting because we had some unseasonably cold weather after I planted them. But I see a few sprouts from the Cascadia and Mammoth Melting snap peas. The Green Arrow shelling peas have no sprouts so I replanted them today.
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Who's planted beets
- aszuul Garden
- CloCkWeRX 6 - Rosewater Backyard Right · Rosewater, South...
- CloCkWeRX 8 - Rosewater Backyard Right · Rosewater, South...
- CloCkWeRX 9 - Rosewater Backyard Right · Rosewater, South...
- CloCkWeRX 5 - Rosewater Backyard Right · Rosewater, South...
Beet harvests
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CloCkWeRX harvested 4.
almost 2 years ago
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milki harvested 10, weighing 0.93 kg.
almost 3 years ago
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milki harvested 10, weighing 0.085 kg.
about 3 years ago
CloCkWeRX harvested 4.
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- abbz will trade nationally.
- shawnacscott will trade nationally.
- pazinjanka will trade locally.
- pazinjanka will trade locally.
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Beta vulgaris L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Caryophyllidae Caryophyllales Chenopodiaceae |
|---|---|
| Optimal temperature | 15 - 25 °C |
| Absolute temperature | 4 - 35 °C |
| Killing temperature | growth: 0 °C, rest: -3 °C |
| Optimal rainfall | 600 - 800 mm/year |
| Absolute rainfall | 500 - 1000 mm/year |
| Optimal soil pH | 6.0 - 7.0 |
| Absolute soil pH | 5.5 - 7.5 |
| Crop cycle | 160 - 240 days |
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | biennial |
| Habit | acaulescent (or rosette plants) |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | heavy, medium |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | long day (>14 hours) |
| Optimal light | very bright to light shade |
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