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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Jeanieblue on September 23, 2007, 12:10

Title: beetroot
Post by: Jeanieblue on September 23, 2007, 12:10

I'm allowed one daft question a day, and this is it!  I've a small crop of beetroot, some are almost sitting on top of the soil, is this normal? I'm wondering if I ought to have  earthed them up like potatoes. Or are they they really fat little red triffids, getting reddy to march?  Jean

Title: beetroot
Post by: gobs on September 23, 2007, 12:27

must have clay, them roots swelling upwards, cannot blame them, less resistance...

Title: beetroot
Post by: muntjac on September 23, 2007, 12:36

if they golf bal size pull em up.n eat em .if not pull some soil around them to just half way up the bulb press it down around it ,this will stop any rot getting in the root :wink:

Title: beetroot
Post by: Jeanieblue on September 23, 2007, 13:06

Not sure about the clay, I dug it two spits deep. hey ho. I think I'll go pull them up. Can feel some chutney coming on !!!