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Early Wonder Beet
A variety of beet
How to sow Early Wonder Beet: Direct seed into soil. Thin to 7cm apart when seedlings are 5cm tall.
Sun requirement for Early Wonder Beet: Plant in Full Sun
Typically grown for its round or cylindrical taproot, the leaves of the beet are also edible. Leaves resemble Swiss chard on a smaller scale and are good sautéed. The taproot, or beet, ranges in color from deep red to gold, orange, or white and red striped. The beet has a delicious, earthy flavor with a touch of sweetness to it when roasted.
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Early wonder beet facts
Lifespan
Grown for
whole plant harvested 1 timeCrop cycle
Optimal light
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For Early Wonder Beet, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 4°C and a shortest growing cycle of 160 days at its best temperature, about 2560 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your Early Wonder Beet will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing Early Wonder Beets
- Dig the bed fine and stone free 1 week before sowing
- Water regularly at sowing every week
- Thin the seedlings 3 weeks after sowing
- Weed between the rows 4 weeks after sowing every 2 weeks
- Start pulling young beets at first harvest
- Lift the rest of the crop 6 weeks after first harvest
How members grow Early Wonder Beets
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Plant Early Wonder Beets with
collard greens
passion fruit
sweet potato
spring onion
watermelon radish
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Who's planted Early Wonder Beets
- milki SFG 4x4 · San Francisco Bay Area
Early wonder beet harvests
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milki harvested 1, weighing 0.072 kg.
about 2 years ago
milki harvested 1, weighing 0.072 kg.
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Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 160 to 240 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Beta vulgaris L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Caryophyllidae Caryophyllales Chenopodiaceae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: 0 °C, rest: -3 °C |
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | biennial |
| Habit | acaulescent (or rosette plants) |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | heavy, medium |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | long day (>14 hours) |
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