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How will I know when beetroot is ready to harvest?
A full-sized beet is about 2-3" in diameter. Generally, the top of the root is visible above the soil, and you can guesstimate the root's size based on what you can see. It is OK to pick them smaller, ...
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Carrot & Beetroot seeds not sprouting
Any chance slugs ate them ? What you can try is plant some of the seeds you got in for example clumps of 4 in the module trays and then transplant outside when they are big enough this is the safest ...
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How will I know when beetroot is ready to harvest?
In addition to the great response from @michelle, if you planted these from seeds or bought them in the store, they typically have a harvest time on them. That along with the tips from @michelle is a ...
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What could be eating my beet greens?
Looks like rabbits to me. Where is it you live? What animals have you observed? This is how rabbits eat; they leave the tougher main vein and eat the leaf completely.
PNW is famous for slugs. ...
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What is the result of "unpredictable" cross-pollination of beets?
I've had both beets and chard naturalize in my garden, and the resulting hybrid is always more chard-like than beet-like. The chard grows like a weed, and is hard to stamp out, but the beet is more ...
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Do different cultivars of a species have different growing conditions?
Although both sugar beet and bulls blood beet are varieties of Beta vulgaris, the point is that you're intending to grow your bulls blood variety as a microgreen - the growing method for that is ...
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What to do with 2nd season beetroot?
I think its too late to eat them - they're on their way to flowering, which is what they do in their second year, using the 'beet' or storage organ at the base to grow on in this way. They should ...
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Carrot & Beetroot seeds not sprouting
So it turns out that I probably had a bad batch of seeds.
After replanting from a new seed packet, under essentially the same conditions, I have some thriving carrots!
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Beet plant - leaves turning yellow-brown
Leaf miners for sure, 100%. If you feed your beets well with good quality fertilizer they can outgrow miners and have an awesome crop still, of both leaves and roots. Liquid seaweed, compost tea, a ...
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Beet plant - leaves turning yellow-brown
Beets are relatively unharmed by bugs and disease. It could be
linked with overwatering them: they grow too quick for the available minerals.
From the research I did, this is called Brown beets ...
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Beet plant - leaves turning yellow-brown
The pictures show that there is not enough water. You can see cracks in the soil all near the plant.
10 minutes a day 3 times a week is not enough on a dripper system. Most drippers are 0.5-2 ...
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What is the result of "unpredictable" cross-pollination of beets?
I use often my seeds, and usually you get good results. The specific characteristic are maintained.
Just that you bought a certain variety and you will get possibly an other form. I found that ...
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What is the result of "unpredictable" cross-pollination of beets?
Using one's own seed from their vegetables will always be iffy. I don't know about chard and beets, I'd say that would be iffy and I'd go look up a lot more information. Doesn't affect the plant ...
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Beet leaves bubbling
Could be spinach leaf miners - they're a pest on beets as well. The blisters are caused by the tiny maggots inside the leaf, that's likely what the black bits are that you can see now you've popped a ...
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Carrot & Beetroot seeds not sprouting
I have experienced similar problems before as well. I now use a seeding mix when I plan seeds directly in the ground. That seems to be working for me since this year I got both carrot and beet seeds ...
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