Will Growing Golden Beets Be The Next Big Pattern?

In the previous few years, I’ve seen a rise within the availability of so-called specialty greens in my native grocery shops. From purple carrots to black cherry tomatoes, these attention-grabbing veggies have popped up on the cabinets and tempted me to take them house. I’ll admit, typically I succumbed to the temptation.

Are Multicolored Carrots a Advertising Ploy?

As a gardener, one factor I’ve bother understanding is how retailers can cost two and typically thrice as a lot for these veggies. Does it actually value that rather more to develop purple, purple, yellow or white carrots? I needed to search out out for myself, so I made a decision to grow rainbow carrots in my veggie patch.

Now, I would be the first to admit that growing carrots shouldn’t be my calling. My drawback is the weeds at all times germinate sooner than the carrot seed and crowd them out. To not point out, crawling on the bottom at my age to tug weed seedlings shouldn’t be a simple endeavor.

Nonetheless, I sowed a number of packets of rainbow carrot seeds and patiently waited for them to germinate. Like conventional orange carrots, they had been no roughly fast to sprout. They didn’t seem to develop any sooner or slower, nor had been they any roughly tormented by pests.

The Soiled Little Secret About Rainbow Carrots

My rainbow carrot seeds produced an array of purple, purple, yellow and white carrots that had been nearly as good as any orange carrot varieties I’d grown previously. In different phrases, I discovered no distinction rising rainbow carrots as in comparison with the extra conventional forms of orange carrots.

Which is sweet new for house gardeners who wish to experiment rising connoisseur and specialty produce. We are able to have these untraditional colours of greens with out sacrificing extra of our priceless time, power and assets to develop them.

This has opened up a complete new manner for me to consider my backyard. Not solely can I develop these assorted colours of carrots which I’ve seen within the retailer, however I may experiment with veggies which aren’t available but. There’s one root veggie particularly that I’ve been contemplating as a part of my specialty vegetable backyard subsequent 12 months.

My Next Big Journey with Specialty Root Veggies

Along with the standard purple beets listed in my favourite seed catalogs, I’ve additionally seen they provide golden beet seeds. I’ve been desirous to strive them, however for a unique cause than the one which prompted me to develop multicolored carrots. You see, I like beets. They’re one in every of my favourite meal time veggies.

I discover beets straightforward to develop and this veggie does properly in my backyard. (Significantly better than carrots!) But, I don’t develop or use very many backyard beets for one quite simple cause – they stain. My arms, my garments, my dishes, you title it and beet juice will flip it a darkish purple.

I discover it a lot simpler to open a can of store-bought beets and forego the mess. But, like most gardeners I develop my very own veggies so I’ve wholesome, recent, natural produce for my dinner desk. Thus, I’m questioning if rising golden beets will give me the recent beets I want with out the mess?

As I look ahead to planning my backyard subsequent 12 months, I hope so. And who is aware of, perhaps I’ll be driving the crest of the wave regarding the subsequent pattern in specialty produce!