Don’t Stop The Beet

In a way, it’s a sad day – I’ve harvested the last of the beetroot for this year. We’ve never grown them before, but they’ll definitely be here every year from now on. They’re really easy, very tasty and you get loads. As well as eating the root part (roasted is good) you can eat the leaves, which are great as salad leaves but even better cooked like spinach.

The second picture is an earlier harvest in July, probably some of the first, so it’s a long harvesting season as well. One root has had a small hole burrowed in it by some creepy crawly kind of thing, but all the
rest have been completely pest free, above and below ground. I don’t want to spoil things for next year by saying this, but it seems like you can’t go wrong with beetroot.

Finally, from the beginning of July, here’s a picture of them happily growing away. They were all planted in early April, so only about three months before they’re ready to eat and five before you get your patch of vegetable patch back, although I planted spring onions in the gaps between the beetroot rows a couple of months ago anyway. Next year I’ll probably just put the beetroot closer together.