Growing Beets - First Garden Effort with "Detroit Dark Reds"

Beets and beet greens are wonderful with just butter and salt...

Vincent  Summers

Growing beets for the vegetable and the greens is fun and easy as well as tasty.

Published by Vincent Summers

My secular expertise includes 23 years of experience at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, with a share in NASA's extended Voyager 2 effort. I formerly wrote for Demand Studios, Bukisa, Suite 101, Exa...  View profile

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  • Michael Segers6/24/2010

    Nice work - photos and garden. My father used to have a lot of luck with beets. Now, time for borscht.

  • Vincent Summers6/22/2010

    Pulled my two first beets this evening. How lovely.

  • Lois Lunsford6/22/2010

    They do look yummy.

  • Julia Bodeeb6/19/2010

    Good luck w/ the beets Vince!

  • Richard Banks6/18/2010

    My wife loves pickled beets. She has no green thumb however. You plants looks amazing! Great photos.

  • Danielle Olivia Tefft6/17/2010

    I never knew the greens of beet plants were edible, too!

  • Fern Fischer6/17/2010

    Looks good! We eat most of our beets mixed with salad greens.

  • Debra Gavazzi6/16/2010

    I love garden foods.

  • Rue Cooper6/16/2010

    Yum! That looks like some good snacking right in the garden :)

  • Bonnie Doss-Knight6/16/2010

    Ick beets! The leaves are pretty though.

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