Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Beets

 
I've never really been a Beet person. I haven't purchased them in the grocery store and have only used them once in preparing a meal, simply because I grew one. However, the more I study organic gardening the more I excited I've become about Beets.

According to me 2013 Bountiful Gardens catalog "A real self-sufficiency crop, beets provide baby greens for salad mix, mature leaves for cooking, and sweet roots for cooking, canning, and winter storage."

The are entirely edible, the leaves to the root. I didn't know this when I grew them last fall, so I only used the root. They are especially tasty diced, mixed with other root crops like carrots and potatoes, drizzled with olive oil, lightly salted and baked. Yum.

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