Beet
Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops
Plantingmonths: Year-round. Spacing: Sow seed one inch apart. Rows spaced one to two feet. Thin to four inches. Special Tips: Use hoe handle to make straight row. Cover seeds with one-inch fine compost potting soil and pat down.
Harvesting: 55 to 60 days. Best eaten between tiny and golf ball size.
Recommended Varieties: Sangria, Bulls Blood, Chioggia, (has red and white rings).
NOTE: If you are growing vegetables year-round there will be some carry over of cool-season crops into warm weather, for example artichokes, which can be put in from transplants in March and harvested in June, or globe onions, which are planted from seeds in November and harvested in late May or June, and strawberries which are also planted in November and harvested throughout spring into early summer.