A beet seed is capable of sprouting into as many as eight seedlings. This is bad news for gardeners who carefully space each seed within its row. Most table beet seeds, unless the variety is listed as ...

Beets are commonly grown for their bulbous roots, but their tops can also be harvested for greens, and they are an excellent source of Vitamin A as well as calcium. Beet juice is sometimes used in ...

Probably one of the most difficult chores in the garden is thinning the seedlings, and therefore, it is the most often neglected task. If you are like me, you hate to destroy anything good growing in ...

Years ago I received a letter — yes, I wrote this column in pre-email days, too — from a reader who wanted me to know she had planted some very special beet seeds, as each developed three or four ...

Ah, the first weeks of summer! This is the time of year to thin out those vegetable crops that you started directly from seeds right in the garden. Unless you were exceedingly careful and deliberate, ...

Some of my favorite cool-season crops are beets, spinach and Swiss chard. They all belong to the same plant family, Amaranthaceae, so they have the same cultural needs and potential insect problems.

Beets (Beta vulgaris) are one of those vegetables ideally suited to the late-summer garden for harvesting in the fall. While we plant them now in August to mature before the first frost (somewhere ...

A. Gradually is best if you have time to return to the garden every couple of days as the plants grow larger. Thin them so that the leaves from a single plant barely touch neighboring leaves. The ...

Beets (Beta vulgaris) are one of those vegetables ideally suited to the late-summer garden for harvesting in the fall. While we plant them now in August to mature before the first frost (somewhere ...