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Seeds Organically produced in Cornwall. Wintersonne is a round, golden beet with healthy, upright foliage. Golden skin and yellow flesh with delicate white rings. It is uniform with smooth skin and has a notably sweet and aromatic taste and does not bleed on cooking. Ideal for fresh salads and bunching. Beetroot is colourful, good for us and surprisingly versatile. It is also very easy to grow.
Sow direct into a well-prepared planting site from March until July. Use a good Top Soil product if you want to add a fine soil to your bed pre planting. Make shallow drills and sprinkle the seed about 2 cm apart. Cover with fine soil. You should allow about 30 cm between rows. Thin the seedlings to about 8-10 cm apart. Succession sow throughout the season to keep you well supplied. You can start beetroot off in modules inside in a good Seed & Cutting Compost, and they can be multi-sown. To do this put a pinch of seed in each module and plant out as a bunch taking the whole plug of starter compost with the bunch so as not to disrupt the roots.
They will grow happily together, pushing out from the centre, although the individual beets will be smaller. Harvest baby beets at the size of a golf ball and main crop ones at about tennis ball size. Any bigger and they are likely to get woody.
Pests and diseases: Beetroot is very trouble-free and not particularly susceptible to any pests or diseases.
