The modern beet as such was not apparently hump in ancient times . There is a floor that when the Greeks pay homage to Apollo they served him beetroots on a silver disc , but the first recorded specific reference to beets is in the third century in Rome . They were advert in 1390 in some old English cookery recipe . Beets are natives of Europe and North Africa and were in the first place found near the ocean in southern Europe and around the coasts of the Mediterranean as far east as the Caspian Sea and Persia . The name beetroot come from the fact that when the seed pods swell up they look like the Grecian letter genus Beta .
About this Plant … Family:-BetaGenus , species:-vulgaris .
Suitable Climate
Varieties
Albinia Verecunda , Brupee ’s Golden , Cylindra , Detroit Little Ball , Detroit Lora , MacGregor ’s Favorite , Mammoth Long , Monogram , Monopoly , Red Ace , Regala
Soil Conditions
common beet require swooning , well drained grunge which has not been freshly muck , and open positions .
Planting Time
Seed should be sown in February or March and plants thinned to around 2 inch aside .
Sowing Instructions
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harvest home
harvest home is merely a matter of pulling the beet out of the ground . When you remove the tops , leave an inch or two attach to the root so that it will not bleed . The former beets should be harvested when they are small , 1.5 column inch in diameter or at the most not more than 2 inches . When they are any enceinte , the taste is undesired . The late beet are sometimes allowed to get as heavy as 3 inches in diam and beets for storage are allow to stay in the ground until just before heavy rime .
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Pressure Canning
jam hot beets into hot jar , leaving 1/2 in headroom . Cover with simmering water , leaving 1/2 inch headroom . adapt lid , and process in a insistence canner at 10 pounds pressure sensation ( 240 F ) . Pints – 30 minutes , Quarts – 35 minute
Freezing
Freeze only very vernal , tender beet , as the texture and flavor of larger single change during freezing . Prepare as for canning . pall and backpack inclined beets into freeze container , go out 1/2 inch headroom if sliced or cube . No dynamic headroom is required for whole Beta vulgaris . Seal and freeze .
depot
former beet can be stored successfully during the wintertime under right conditions . However they keep best at temps around freeze , and the temps should never outmatch 40 F. Also they must be kept moist , with littleair circulation . These conditions involve a especial storage way in the cellar or an extraneous memory board elbow room , or if neither is usable an outside storage colliery . The maximal storage menstruation is 4 - 5 month .
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