Tiny beetroot

[Marb67]

Well I have had some beetroot at least but after following the Charles Dowding method of planting in small clumps and harvesting them one by one, giving a chance for the others to mature it hasn't worked. I fed with BFB but got tiny, thin wispy roots to golf ball size at the biggest, What went wrong as I made sure they were well watered. The yellow variety seem to have done so much better than boltardy that...er....bolted in some cases.

I will also say that the yellow ones are very sweet and delicious.

[veggiechicken]

They look good to me!! I always pull them small as I think they're nicer that size. Bigguns can be tough and woody.
If they were mine I'd be patting myself on the back and saying Well done.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Same as onions more BFB.............................

[Marb67]

Will the small ones grow a bit more before the season ends if I feed them BFB ?

[Potstubsdustbins]

They well might.

But I use an old saying 'If it can't do harm it can only do now't or good' we know it can't do any harm so it's worth a try.

[Greenleaves]

Perfect size for roasting Marb, i no longer grow Boltardy as a main crop because I find them unreliable...Titan is a good alternative

[Small pumpkin]

You need to stop worrying Marb.
This morning I pulled up these octopus. They are obviously ready for a fancy dress party dressed as cousin it



It's still a growing success because they are edible


Tiny beetroot are great for pickling

[Mark_Riga]

Those look really ugly.

Marb. I've used a similar method. I've put 2 'seeds' in each of 40 very small pots in trays. I think they were from Aldi but a few places sell them. When they germinated, I planted them out about 2" to 3" apart, sometimes splitting if several strong in one cell. So ended up with double row of about 12'. I've been using the thinings now for quite a few weeks and the rows still look full. Latest pickings from 1st Aug pictured on an upside down small wash basin. The root system never seems as sturdy when transplanted but they seem to grow perfectly OK.



I generally just use compost from our compost heap. These are from a new raised bed (first I've ever made) that was put on an very stony area (that grew big weeds though) and was filled with stuff from the compost heap so was very fertile. I'm expecting the row to stay looking full for a long time yet so no reason why yours should not grow quite a bit yet. I like detroit variety they are nice and sweet and last year I had some weighing more than 1kg in the end that were perfectly edible (once cooked). When I have used fertilizer on anything (mainly greenhouse crops) I alternate between comfrey water (a 200l water butt stuffed full of comfrey leaves then filled with water and left a couple of weeks) and miracle grow. The comfrey seems to strengthen the plants while the miracle grow seems to give them an overall growth spurt.

[Bigmallly]

You need to stop worrying Marb.
This morning I pulled up these octopus. They are obviously ready for a fancy dress party dressed as cousin it

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It's still a growing success because they are edible


Tiny beetroot are great for pickling

I knew I'd seen those Beetroot before: