Pulling a huge baseball-sized beet (Beta vulgaris) from the earth is one of the most satisfying moments in gardening. Unfortunately, many backyard gardeners settle for a less-than-stellar harvest — ...

70 days growing beet from seed to harvestable root. Each of the beet seed cluster contains 2 to 5 individual seeds. From our sample batch, one cluster developed into 2 plants. I had to remove one to e ...

Beets are a versatile, tasty and nutritious root vegetable. Apparently, like cilantro, some people have a strong aversion to beets. You can eat both the root and greens of the beet. Beets are ...

Root crops that were spring planted have already matured or are maturing. Some are at their peak in size and flavor in summer months but if there is a best time to harvest root crops, that depends on ...

Beets (Beta vulgaris) are one of those vegetables ideally suited to the late-summer garden for harvesting in the fall. While we plant them now in August to mature before the first frost (somewhere ...