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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 17:35:37 GMT -5
Last fall I planted some "new to me" beets in a raised bed, alongside my old reliable Detrpot Darl Red/ I don't even remember the new beets variety.
Those new beets made tops like weeds, central stem. branching leaves, nothing that looked like an edible beet green. Today I pulled some and tossed the rest=---tough stem llike a weed, beets the size of eggs or smaller. Old reliable still out there looking good, beet greens in the offing.
LOL, I also found an overlooked spinach plant that wil be eaten in a few days.
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Post by paquebot on May 28, 2021 21:53:16 GMT -5
You planted them in the fall and over-wintered them? Beets are biennial. They are now going to seed. That's why there is a central stalk. At this point you are right in that they are not even good as greens.
Martin
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2021 20:45:17 GMT -5
Martin--they did not make in the Fall, either. Never looked like a beet plant should (to my way of thinking)
The D. dark are looking good and have nice greens waiting to be picked.
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Post by paquebot on Jun 6, 2021 22:03:23 GMT -5
They were probably planted too late in the fall to make a large root. Didn't matter how big it was to go into winter, the plant said that this was a new year and that means seed time.
Martin
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2021 9:30:46 GMT -5
You are correct, of course./ Here, until late, the leaves do not freeze snd we can strip them for cooking. These never reached that point, though the DD Reds did. I pulled all but a couple of the tall ones, missed them, and they look like little trees out there among the DD Reds. (I put in a Spring crop of the DD Reds)
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Post by paquebot on Jun 7, 2021 10:38:07 GMT -5
If you let one of those beet plants get to seed stage, it may be 3' tall and 3' wide. Probably would not recognize it as a beet plant.
Martin
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