In My Seed Box - Beetroots

We do love our beetroots, fresh and pickled, and we supply our daughters and the rest of the family with pickled beetroots each year. I normally start them off early in vending machine cups in the space saver greenhouse or the greenhouse on Mill Green allotment.

This year however Mill Green is not really accessible during the day Monday to Friday due to the construction works for watering and the greenhouse has not gone up yet on the Spencer Road allotment plot.

That said as soon as there is space in the space saver greenhouse at least two trays of beetroots will be started off, according to the Sowing & Planting Plan they are due in the 4th Week of March

The plan this year is to use the Onion Beetroot weed membrane to reduce the weeding, and yes I know it's exactly the same pattern as the Onion sheet. Now planting via a weed membrane sheet isn't going to work when I finally get around to using the seed tapes, but it's ideal for the beetroots started off in the vending machine cups. I will just have to have an additional bed that needs weeding.

Review of Beetroot Seed Stocks in Zippy Bags

Action F1 - baby type (Ready in 10 weeks)

Bettollo F1 x 2 packs - Sarah Raven Collection - sow by 2017

Review Of Seed Stocks in Packets Sow By 2016

Cardeal F1 Hybrid x 2 packs (75 Seeds/pack) - Thompson & Morgan Urban Garden Collection

Detroit 2 - (275 Seeds) - Wilko

Detroit 6 - (200 Seeds) Thompson & Morgan 

Pablo F1 Hybrid x 2 packs (250 seed/ pack) - Thompson & Morgan

Wodan F1 Hybrid (200 Seeds) - Thompson & Morgan

Review Of Seed Stocks in Packets Sow By 2017 +

Alto F1 Hybrid (300 Seeds) - Thompson & Morgan

Boltardy (350 seeds) - Thompson & Morgan

Boltardy x 4 packs (90 seeds/tape) no information on how long the tape is - T&M

Monorubra - Sarah Raven Collection

Post 2017

Cardeal F1 - (200 Seeds) - unwins - Sow By 2019