Posted by greenbeanman in Kansas on April 21, 2009 at 15:06:19 from (99.151.38.238):
In Reply to: OT Beets posted by pat sublett on April 21, 2009 at 10:29:04:
What kind of beets are we are we talking about? Table beets or sugar beets?
If table beets buy a monogerm variety of beet meaning that it only has one seed in the seed pod (case) whereas most beets have multiples.
Solo is one such monogerm variety.
To give a better example of multiples in table beets a book called "The New Seed Starters Handbook" provides a table called "Percentage of Normal Vegetable Seedlings Produced at Different Temperatures". The chart shows that at 32�F temp beets will not produce any seedlings. At 41�, 114% from one seed planted; at 50�, 156%; at 59�, 189%; at 68�, 193%; at 77�, 209%; at 86�, 192%; at 95�, 75%; and at 104�, 0%.
I don't like thinning vegetable crops either. It is tedious work and I don't like to destroy plants. I will be seeking out and planting monogerm beets from this year forward EXPECT when I want an odd variety such as those that produce white, golden, yellow, or bulls eye interiors.
Remember all of those pickled beet stains that always managed to get on the Sunday dinner lace tablecloth? Next time let momma make her pickled beets out of white beets, hence no stain to show. Sounds good but I understand they may not quite have the taste of red beets. Too much texture like a sugar beet I've read. Oh well.
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