yellow beetroot
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:08 pm
Anyone got experience of growing yellow beetrooot?
I thought I'd try it this year because if it tastes the same and doesn't make all your salads red, that would be a good thing. I brought them on in modules and planted them out beginning of May. Bam the things were eaten by pigeons. Never had this with red beetroot so they weren't protected. So on goes the netting, but they have been so slow even recovering a few leaves and still no sign whatsoever of a root. In the meantime the traditional red ones have grown and half have been eaten.
I thought I'd try it this year because if it tastes the same and doesn't make all your salads red, that would be a good thing. I brought them on in modules and planted them out beginning of May. Bam the things were eaten by pigeons. Never had this with red beetroot so they weren't protected. So on goes the netting, but they have been so slow even recovering a few leaves and still no sign whatsoever of a root. In the meantime the traditional red ones have grown and half have been eaten.
..took ages to germinate, then got eaten by pigeons...never happened before (why this year??). Resowed and now have just three fairly long , fairly sparse rows! Last year we had a different variety (wish we had made a note of it 
) which grew huge but were still edible when the size of melons!! Did not go woody at all. So if anyone can suggest the variety, we will try them next year. Might have a go at yellows but I am sentimental about all that red staining!! 