Description

Sugar Beet’ has large, white roots to about 1.4kg. This variety is very sweet; the sugar content is about 20%. The sweetness increases when roasted. Use grated in cakes, desserts or other baked goods. This is the variety widely grown instead of sugar-cane in cooler climates to make sugar or molasses. Roots can be harvested from about 10 weeks (70 days) and used as a root vegetable or to sweeten smoothies. Edible leaves can be eaten raw or cooked as spinach.
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.