How to Grow Beets?

Beets can be called a multipurpose vegetables at many stages of growth. If you have seedlings that are two to three inches tall, they are a good addition to your spring salad. Now, when the greens are six to eight inches tall you can steam up a mess of greens. Do not touch the beet part because it has just stared to develop. the beets taste good by themselves when they get about an inch and a half in diameter.

To get the best tasting beets they need to be able to grow fast, so they need to have rich soil and plenty of water. Beets have a long taproot and it is best to put them in a  deeper container, at least 10 to 12 inches deep, if you are going to use a container.

You will need to put the seeds1/2 inch deep in the soil. The seeds needs to be planted three inches apart in the container that they will live in. the first planting can be done a month before the last frost, along with small succession plantings every two weeks. Beets like to grow in cool weather, but they do germinate best in fairly warm soil. The way to preheat your container soil is done by covering it with black plastic or by using red plastic mulch.

Each beet seed is actually a cluster of seeds, so it does not matter how carefully you are in planting them, they will come up as a clump of plants, You can thin some of the plants to give more space to the other plants, but beets are used to grow in clustered conditions, and they do fine if you do not thin them, especially if you harvest some of the crop early for greens. If you thin some of the beets, do this with scissors, clipping the unwanted plants at soil level the roots of the beet plants will be intertwined, and if you decide to thin them out you will disturb the roots of the plants that you want to save.



To eat the baby beets and greens or just the greens, you will need to just pull the plants in clumps. After the greens are no longer tasty and the beets are mature, you will need to pull the beets and trim the tops to about an inch long.

To eat the baby beets and greens or just the greens you will need to just pull the plants in clumps. After the greens are no longer tasty and the beets are mature, you will need to pull the beets and trim the tops to about on inch long.
Beets are easy keepers and if they get a lot of water, they are unlikely to be bothered by pests or diseases.

Beets come in many different colors such as red, golden, white and deep purple. Some of the beets when sliced open, are striped, alternation with rings of pink and white or light and dark red.

Here is a video on how to grow your own beets.