Sowing growing and harvesting beetroot (Boltardy)
Watch our animated guides to to sowing, growing and harvesting your beetroot.
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Get sowing
Get growing
Harvest time!
Grub's up!
Tip of the day
Great beetroot news! Little weeding should be required because the foliage of beetroot is thick, so keeps most weeds at bay.
Further Links
- BBC Gardening Basics: Growing beetroot
- BBC Gardening: Growing vegetables
- BBC Gardening: Growing in pots
- BBC Gardening: Seeds and gardening with children
- Woman's Hour: How to cook beetroot
- BBC News: Beetroot may cut blood pressure
- BBC Food: Warm roast beetroot and goats' cheese salad
- Royal Horticultural Society: Sowing, growing and harvesting beetroot
- Love Beetroot: All you ever wanted to know about beets
- The Guardian: Beetroot growing advice
