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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Beets!

We have been enjoying the delicious tops all summer but I had given up on any sort of beet actually forming. I was surprised today, when I went to get some greens for dinner, to see purply red roundish roots protruding above the soil! They aren't going to win the price at the county fair but they are here just the same!

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3 comments:

Erin said...

They are beautiful! We have been devouring our beet greens all summer, I just decided to stop planting lettuce and just plant beets instead since I keep passing the lettuce up anyway! I find that the beet greens don't get as many bugs, are heartier, more tolerant to less water, and we just like the texture better.

Mine take a loooong time to form an acutal beet too. The crop we have been eating the greens from for months are at least 2 months old and nary a bulb on them! Maybe because we keep eating the tops? haha :)

September 21, 2008 at 7:10 AM
Thembi said...

oooh! Don't let my girls see those! Nina would probably walk cross country for beets!

September 21, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Marlyn said...

Oooh, that's all I have to do to get her to come??????

September 21, 2008 at 6:52 PM

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