Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: Kleftiwallah on November 29, 2017, 13:54
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I do not have any dry/moist sand but I do have some oak chippings & oak sawdust. Will this do for beetroot storage overwintering for the use of?
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Cheers, Tony.
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I don't bother with that stuff. Don't have the space. So I cook then freeze them. They are then ready for use without any more preparation. Everyone says they taste just cooked.
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No room, no room
That's why I'm asking about sawdust & wood chippings. Damp or dry?
Cheers, Tony.
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They would need to be damp to prevent the beet dehydrating, but I'm not sure if damp woodchip may encourage rot and also impart a flavour
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No room, no room
That's why I'm asking about sawdust & wood chippings. Damp or dry?
Cheers, Tony.
We use very slightly damp old spent compost, so I feel sure sawdust would be OK. The roots keep in good condition for months, although they do throw out some leaf stalks sometimes
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I don't bother with that stuff. Don't have the space. So I cook then freeze them. They are then ready for use without any more preparation. Everyone says they taste just cooked.
Are they ok when they've been frozen. I tried this once, but when I defrosted the beetroot they seem slimy. Did I do something wrong?
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I cook them, skin them then cut into 2cm size pieces and freeze. Never had any that were slimy though. ???
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I cook them, skin them then cut into 2cm size pieces and freeze. Never had any that were slimy though. ???
I boiled them, skinned them, but then I froze them whole. Perhaps that's where I went wrong, and the pieces were too large.
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I pickle a lot of my beetroot.
Picked a load last week.
But do freeze them after a boil and a slice. I use a crinkle cutter to slice them, they look so good that way. I layer them in a tub and a quick shake when you need them, individual ones come out easy and taste perfect.
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we do both pickled beatroot and freezer beatroot we found that freezer beet doesn't seem to keep that long where pickled beet last's much longer
we sometimes have beetroot as a second veg never put beet in sand or sawdust so don't know how it keeps surprisingly we still have beetroot down the allotment in a razed bed pulled some the other day and it was fine cooked ok no problems
grew two varieties a round type and a cylindra type both cropped very well in a razed bed
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I used freeze mostly cooked, but like you - no room in the freezer! So they are in dry compost and are keeping fine. They do throw up leaves, but I pick them off and use in salads as a bonus crop. Seems to work ..
PS no market for pickled beetroot here. :(