Beetroot Varieties

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Great Beetroots to try

Barbabietola di Chioggia Beetroot

An old traditional Italian beet with unusual white rings when roots are sliced.
Requires less cooking than normal beets and has a lovely mild flavour.

Boltardy Beetroot
- Beetroot Boltardy is the most popular choice for early sowing, good resistance to bolting.
- Produces medium size globe shaped roots of superb deep red with no rings. Good resistance to bolting.

Bulls' Blood Beetroot
- Although primarily grown as an ornamental plant for its dark red leaves, it is now mildly used in baby leaf salads.
- It provides almost crimson colour leaves with a sweet taste to add to any salad.
Cheltenham Green Top Beetroot
- Long tapering roots of slightly rough texture, excellent flavour and good for the show bench.

Crimson King Beetroot
- Kings own variety, selected from crops on their Essex farm.
- Medium to large round roots of deep red with fine flavour and texture with no rings.
- Ideal for winter storage..
Cylindra Beetroot
- Half long stump rooted variety, perfect for slicing, excellent flavour and very good for winter storage.
- Slower to maturity than globe varieties.
Detroit Globe Beetroot
- Introduced nearly a century ago and still one of the favourites for main crop sowing.
- Deep red flesh, marvellous flavour and stores well.
- Easy to grow and much more tasty than fresh shop bought beetroot.
- It should be harvested just at the right time when the size of a tennis ball.
Detroit White Beetroot
- A Tender pure white root.
- An unusual variety with a rounded slightly conical shape.
Forono Beetroot
- An improved variety of half long stump rooted type, selected for its flavour.
- Produces large roots which store well and are excellent for slicing and pickling.
Golden Beet Beetroot
- Yellow/orange flesh, globe-shaped.
- Does not bleed when cooked.
- Good Flavour.
Moneta Beetroot
- A monogerm variety producing single seedlings at each sowing instead of the clusters from normal seed.
- Medium sized roots which are slow to bolt.
Pablo F1 Beetroot
- This excellent deep red beetroot can be used as a baby beet, or grown on as a main crop.
- Perfect for any salad with its globe roots and sweet tasting smooth flesh.
Wodan F1 Beetroot
- Delicious medium size roots which rarely become woody.
- Pick young as baby beet or leave to mature.

Category: Recipes

Aubergine Parmigiana

This simple aubergine parmigiana recipe from Italy makes a cosy mid-week meal. Serve this cheese, tomato and aubergine bake as a vegetarian main dish, with some wholewheat garlic bread or a peppery rocket salad, or you can also make it as a hearty side for for a meat dish.!

Fagiolini in Umido

This is a great dish to use some of the abundant Green Beans that should be available in the summer months Fagiolini in Umido is an Italian dside dish simply means Green Beans cooked in Tomato.

Oca or Potato Homity Pie Recipe

Homity Pie

Homity pie is a traditional British open vegetable pie. The pastry case traditionally contains a filling of potatoes and an onion and leek mixture, which is then covered with cheese. It has a history that dates back to the efforts of the Land girls of the Second World War and the restrictions imposed by wartime rationing.

Category: The Growing Season

Jobs to do in April

Spring should be here but watch out for frosts!

Sow seed outdoors
Vegetable growing really takes off this month. Chit and plant out second early potatoes in the first half of the month, maincrop potatoes in the second half. It's also time to sow seed outdoors in well-prepared soil.

Jobs to do in July

Harvest should be bountiful and the allotment is in full swing

Now is the height of summer, the days endlessly long, temperatures usually at their peek and you should be reaping the rewards of your hard work in the preceding months. Watering in this month is crucial to stem off premature bolting, tomato blossom end rot and splitting skins.

Jobs to do in October

October is the month when it feels like the season is about to turn, the days start to shorten and the sun appears lower in the sky, the leaves change colour and fall to the ground and temperatures drop. The first frost are likely too, which will be the end of many of your crops out in the open so if you still haven’t harvested frost sensitive crops now is the time before Jack Frost gets them!

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