Beetroot ‘Boston’ is an excellent improved Boltardy selection. Uniform and refined, it produces excellent crops of smooth-skinned red globes with excellent flavour. Slow bolting, it is ideal for early sowings, this maincrop variety can be sown from early March right through to late August.
Detroit 2 Crimson Globe or Rote Ruben is a popular improved Detroit globe beetroot. It is a classic, main-crop beetroot which produces excellent quality, smooth skinned beets with strong skin and ox-blood flesh colour. It is recommended as a good cultivar to use for succession sowings.
“The old Egyptian turnip or flat-rooted beetroot has the best flavour but is scarce.” Bob Flowerdew. Beetroot ‘Flat of Egypt’ is a very old heritage variety that produces smooth skinned roots, often heart-shaped, with a deep red, tender and flavoursome flesh.
‘Golden Beetroot’ are an absolute delight. they have a slightly honeyed taste and don’t stain the dishes. After all, at the end of a long day, the last thing you want to do is get your hands dirty. Organic Seed.
Barabietola di Chioggia is a globe-shaped heirloom Italian variety, grown today mainly for its unusual colouring, but it has a mild and sweet flavour. It can be sown from very early in the season until late and can be grown in raised beds or containers all year round. Organic Seed.Popular and productive, beetroot ‘Forono’ forms a uniform, elongated, dark-red root that has a fine, smooth texture with little fibre and maintains its sweetness and tenderness over a long growing season. Awarded the RHS AGM. Organic Seeds.
Neat and globe-shaped, with smooth orange skin and rich golden flesh Beetroot ‘Burpee’s Golden’are full of sweetness with a mild, gentle flavour. Cooked, they deepen to a warm turmeric gold, while eaten raw, they bring colour and sweetness to salads. Even the foliage is handsome, with light green leaves beautifully traced in gold.
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