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Beet Harvest
Beet Harvest
Picked the remaining squares of beets at our SFG in the community garden...lots of nice tennis ball sized roots...ready for roasting or pickling.

Found some more beauties hiding in the garden...I think these are Black Krim but I need to dig my planting diagram out and verify...(I've planted 16 different varieties this year). Hopefully it will continue to be a good tomato year.


Found some more beauties hiding in the garden...I think these are Black Krim but I need to dig my planting diagram out and verify...(I've planted 16 different varieties this year). Hopefully it will continue to be a good tomato year.

landarch- Posts : 1147
Join date : 2012-01-22
Location : kansas city
Re: Beet Harvest
Beautiful beets!
I didn't know Black Krim were so heavily lobed. I've got to try one sometime.
I didn't know Black Krim were so heavily lobed. I've got to try one sometime.
Marc Iverson-
Posts : 3638
Join date : 2013-07-05
Age : 56
Location : SW Oregon
Re: Beet Harvest
Those look great. Makes me want to try beets next year for sure. I love them pickled.
FeedMeSeeMore-
Posts : 142
Join date : 2014-05-06
Location : Georgia
Re: Beet Harvest
My beets are very small... not much top at all. Planted from seed, almost 2 months ago. Wondering what I did wrong.
giant_trainer-
Posts : 56
Join date : 2013-01-23
Age : 63
Location : Memphis, TN
Re: Beet Harvest
I find beets can be tricky...I've read that beets can be stunted with inconsistent watering, tight spacing, too much fertilizer, etc...but I get confused when I have both really nice beets and really poorly developed beets in the same square.
I've even read that some years are good for beets and some bad (temps, rain, sun, etc.). Fall is supposed to be prime for beets in our area, however last fall I could not get a beet to form whatsoever, even with successive seedings.
I've even read that some years are good for beets and some bad (temps, rain, sun, etc.). Fall is supposed to be prime for beets in our area, however last fall I could not get a beet to form whatsoever, even with successive seedings.
landarch- Posts : 1147
Join date : 2012-01-22
Location : kansas city
Re: Beet Harvest
My planting diagram says they are Black Krim...or possibly Carbon. A quick check of images for Black Krim and Carbon show both smooth/round and lobed forms...so who knows. My first thought was that one of my little ones could have messed with a few plant labels before planting.
Here's a list of tomato varieties I planted this year:
Black Krim
Hillbilly
Carbon
Green Zebra
Cherokee Purple
Pink Brandywine
Jetstar
Rutgers
Better Boy
San Marzano
San Marzano Lungo No.2
Indigo Apple
Thai Pink Egg
Early Pink
German Johnson
Black Cherry
Here's a list of tomato varieties I planted this year:
Black Krim
Hillbilly
Carbon
Green Zebra
Cherokee Purple
Pink Brandywine
Jetstar
Rutgers
Better Boy
San Marzano
San Marzano Lungo No.2
Indigo Apple
Thai Pink Egg
Early Pink
German Johnson
Black Cherry
landarch- Posts : 1147
Join date : 2012-01-22
Location : kansas city
Re: Beet Harvest
How do you know when they are ready to harvest?
giant_trainer-
Posts : 56
Join date : 2013-01-23
Age : 63
Location : Memphis, TN
Re: Beet Harvest
I can usually see the top of the beet root above the soil...when it looks big enough go ahead and pick it. I've read that if beets get too big or grow into the heat of the summer they can get tough and woody.
landarch- Posts : 1147
Join date : 2012-01-22
Location : kansas city
Re: Beet Harvest
I have read on some beet seed descriptions that it is their nature to grow at different rates. They try to sell that feature as a positive: it's a naturally occurring staggered harvest. But I find that the laggard plants in a square never develop properly, so I prefer to pull them too when I harvest the big ones, and then re-plant the square.@landarch wrote:I find beets can be tricky...I've read that beets can be stunted with inconsistent watering, tight spacing, too much fertilizer, etc...but I get confused when I have both really nice beets and really poorly developed beets in the same square...
I can't find the right combination for a dependable crop either. For me, they're a bit like radishes: sometimes they grow fast and beautiful; sometimes they don't develop.
boffer-
Posts : 7392
Join date : 2010-02-26
Age : 65
Location : yelm, wa, usa
Re: Beet Harvest
Laggard is a great word!
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
http://squarefoot.creatingforum.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
http://squarefoot.creatingforum.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
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