2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Good beets must be juicy, tasty, strong and beautiful, in addition, high-quality root crops can also boast of the ability to be stored for a long time. As for the taste of beets, it can be as varied as you like - fortunately, there are a great many varieties of this culture today. However, sweet varieties are still considered the most popular - they never lose their relevance! What are these varieties, and why are they really worth paying attention to?
Valenta
Excellent in all respects high-yielding mid-season variety! Such roots are always clean, smooth and boast a rich dark red color, and their delicate and surprisingly juicy pulp is covered with a rather unusual pattern of weak rings. In addition, these fruits are very rich in vitamins PP and group B. And the excellent dessert taste of this beet will be remembered immediately and forever! Ripe root crops are always easily pulled out of the soil, and they can be stored for a very, very long time, and without the slightest loss of their presentation. And the Valenta beets are also endowed with the ability to withstand fairly severe cold, however, a decrease in temperature is often fraught with a decrease in yield.
Cylinder
The very name of this variety clearly indicates that these root crops are characterized by a very unusual shape, and this is really so - oblong cylindrical dark red root crops, equipped with a small, but at the same time, clearly defined "waist", simply cannot but attract Attention! The variety is medium-sized, practically not susceptible to all sorts of ailments, which allows you to get quite solid yields. There are no whitish circles in ripe root crops, such beets are cut without much effort, and they can be safely added to a wide variety of dishes - their great sweet taste makes them especially suitable for adding to salads or borscht, as well as for preserving!
Mulatto
Outwardly, this beet is practically no different from most of its other relatives. These root vegetables can boast of the correct rounded shape, and during their ripening they invariably acquire a characteristic maroon color, and their flesh is very much appreciated by gardeners not only for the absence of rings, but also for its unsurpassed taste. The Mulatka variety boasts a rather impressive yield, while any additional or special care for this crop is not required at all. And such beets are superbly stored in the winter season!
Bravo
One of the most fruitful, most mature, as well as the most delicious and extremely unpretentious varieties, which will not be difficult to grow in any territory, from the Ural Mountains to Moldova itself! Dark red rounded roots with not too large spectacular heads are always surprisingly smooth, and their juicy, but at the same time dense pulp is devoid of ringiness and is colored in light burgundy tones pleasant to the eye. This variety is also good in that after sowing, up to 98% of the total number of sown seeds almost always sprout, in addition, these plants are much less likely than any others to be affected by beet flea, as well as by the troublesome cercospora.
Mona
Behind this name is a one-sprout mid-early variety, characterized by dark red strong roots of a rather attractive cylindrical shape. And their juicy and very sweet dark red pulp literally melts in your mouth! And caring for growing crops is incredibly simple and pleasant: during cultivation, these beets do not require additional thinning, but they are watered only as needed, however, when a drought is established, the frequency of watering is temporarily increased. And so that the plants are not afraid of all kinds of ailments, they are regularly pampered with good feeding and systematically loosened the soil in which they grow!
Bordeaux 237
Bred by talented Soviet breeders back in 1943, Bordeaux 237 is currently one of the most studied and most popular mid-season varieties. True, this culture is very thermophilic and quite demanding on lighting, but it boasts impressive drought resistance! The shape of the root crops can be either round or flat-round, and the color of their delicate pulp is always deep burgundy. Despite the extremely high sugar content, such beets are stored for a long time, and at the same time their amazing taste qualities are not lost at all during storage. Yes, and the variety is also very resistant to various diseases, but occasionally this beet can still be affected by peronosporosis or cercosporosis.
Without a doubt, sweet beets will be appropriate on any table and for any occasion, so be sure to plant them on your site - with such beets, all your dishes will sparkle with new, hitherto unknown shades of taste!
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