Beet Beta vulgaris

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

Beet has been planted 80 times by Growstuff members.

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.

Predictions

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

20 weeks

First harvest expected

20 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

18 weeks after planting

Height

25cm

Spread

10cm

Row Spacing

10cm

Companions

spring onion

collard greens passion fruit

sweet potato

watermelon radish

Photos

Beet crops

Open Farm photo

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Open Farm photo

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Photo by Stuart via iNaturalist (Copyright Stuart)

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Photo by Stephen James McWilliam via iNaturalist (Copyright Stephen James McWilliam)

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Beet plantings

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Beet

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Beetroot

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Beet harvests

Beet roots

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Beet roots

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Beet root

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Beet seeds

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Sunniness

Planted from

Harvested for

Varieties

Early Wonder Beet

Beta vulgaris

Golden Beet

Crop Map

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What people are saying about beets

Planting outdoors & fruit trees

by maco,

Today I transplanted the cabbage and onion seedlings outside and planted seeds for: arugula, garlic (well, cloves, not seeds–forced in the fridge), mesclun salad mix, kale, cauliflower, and …

cabbages onions arugula garlic kale cauliflowers beets apples peaches almonds plums

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:

![garden plan](http://mackenzie.morgan.name/tmp/garden_plan…

arugula basils beets cabbages cauliflowers cucumbers eggplants garlic kale lettuces onions oregano parsley Hungarian wax peppers bell peppers zucchini yellow summer squash butternut squash sweet potatoes tomatoes super sweet 100 tomatoes chamomiles

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…

lettuces turnips radishes Swiss chard beets

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 …

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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 …

turnips beets tomatoes

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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