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Beets Growing in your Vegetable Garden
Beets are delightful vegetables to eat across much of the year. Many home gardeners enjoy success growing beets, so follow these tips and join their ranks.
Beets like rich, sandy loam just like beans. They like a soil pH of 6.2 to 6.8. Fertilizers and lime are best applied using soil test results as a guide. A fertilizer with the analysis of 5-10-10 can be applied at the time of seeding and again when the plants are about three inches high. Fresh manure worked into the soil is fatal for beets, as it is for many another crops
If nothing but fresh manure is available for your garden preparation for beets growing, work this into the soil with great care by digging a trench about a foot deep, spreading a thin layer of manure in this, cover it with soil, and planting above this. By the time the main root strikes down to the manure layer, there will be little or no damage.
Beets growing should not include their transplantation. If the rows are one foot apart there is ample space for cultivation. These seeds may be planted whenever the weather is really settled. Young beet tops make wonderful greens and as nutritious as the roots.
Beets can manage warm weather but prefer a cooler climate. The best temperatures for beets are 60-65 degrees. Because they manage quite cold weather beets are a long lasting crop.
After plants are well established mulch should be applied to maintain soil moisture and help minimize weed growth. Make sure that cultivation of beets is very shallow to avoid damage to the beet roots.
For the best quality beets growing, cultivate them consistently. Add nutrient supply to plants and keep them moist. Additional watering may be necessary during dry spells.
Regular inspection of the crop can help deter a major pest infestation of flea beetles, aphids or leaf miners. Row covers at an early stage deter flea beetles and leaf miners.
Take great care when handling beets. When beets are to be boiled, if the tip of the root and the tops are cut off, the beet bleeds. This means a loss of good material. The best method of handling is to pinch off the roots and tops with your fingers not too closely to the beet itself.
If you are a farmer you may care to enjoy the benefits of large coarse members of the beet and cabbage families called the mangel wurzel and ruta baga . These are raised to feed to cattle.
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