Description

Beetroot ‘Burpee’s Golden’ is an heirloom first introduced in the 1820s. It has a sweet, golden root and has a milder flavour than red beetroot. This is a great variety for baby beets. Use roots raw in salads or cooked by steaming or roasting. Green tops can be used as spinach, either raw or cooked.
Soak seed overnight before sowing.
Beetroots are the same species as silverbeet and chard; they can all be cross-pollinated with each other. Being biennial, they set seeds in the second year. If collecting seed, ensure that only one variety is flowering. However, beets are wind pollinated and need more than one plant of the same variety for pollination. For best results, hand‑pollinated early in the morning when flowers are wide open.