[chickpeacurry]

I have lots of beetroot bit only seem to get a pound at a time.  Allot seems quite small.  Beetroot queen seems to be getting lots and other people.   Do people feed their beetroot. 

[compostqueen]

Small, golf ball sized beets are the best size 
You could feed them with manure pellets

[m1ckz]

just the usual horse manure dug in  at autum time

[maxie]

I feed everything about once a week with comfrey water except my taties,it seems to pick things up when their struggling a bit

[Goosegirl]

Read somewhere that they are very partial to a seaweed feed.

[Jabberwock]

Read somewhere that they are very partial to a seaweed feed.

Yup, I feed mine with a seaweed feed about once a fortnight and they seem to love it.  This is the 1st year I have used it on them and I don't know if it's just that it's been a great year for beetroot but I'm getting the best crop I've ever had and they seem to be growing a lot faster than normal too.

[Steveharford]

Same here. Great year for beetroot. They sat around for ages until I got round to thinning them then they really started going. Have given them two feeds of comfrey tea in total since then and have been harvesting for about a month.

[GrowinGrowinGone]

I have never fed mine, and I am on heavy clay.  I have always had great crops of beetroot.  I am sure I recall reading somewhere they prefer poor soil anyway.

[AlaninCarlisle]

Read somewhere that they are very partial to a seaweed feed.

Yup, I feed mine with a seaweed feed about once a fortnight and they seem to love it.  This is the 1st year I have used it on them and I don't know if it's just that it's been a great year for beetroot but I'm getting the best crop I've ever had and they seem to be growing a lot faster than normal too.
 

It's a good year for beetroot, mine have never been so good and that's the Chiogga as well as the Boltardy


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[Headgardener22]

Maybe you sowed them too thickly?

I have two lots of beetroot, some I sowed 4 inches apart and some I just sowed in a line. The ones 4 inches apart are much larger than the ones in a line which I forgot to thin out.

[WulfrunFrank]

Agree that beetroot is great this year, growing Boltardy and Sanguina. Neither have been fed, just a little watering when the heatwave hit. Big crop and fast growing.
Occasionally I have used seaweed feed in the past - seems to work..