Vegetable Seeds - Beetroot
Beetroot are easy to grow. The globe-shaped beetroot are the most common but there are also cylindrical varieties which are often grown for show and have the benefit of evenly sized slices. Most beetroot are suitable for close spacing and container growing For help in growing beetroot check out our guide here: Grow Your Own Beetroot
Beetroot Seeds
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Beetroot (Organic) Seeds - Barabietola Di Chioggia
Old traditional Italian beetroot. Rosy pink skin, flesh white with concentric pink circles. Can be grated raw but is tastier cooked.
From Dobies Price: £2.49
Beetroot (Organic) Seeds - Barabietola Di Chioggia
Old traditional Italian beetroot. Rosy pink skin, flesh white with concentric pink circles. Can be grated raw but is tastier cooked.
From Suttons Price: £2.49
Beetroot (Organic) Seeds - Rhonda
Delicious sweet flavour due to its naturally high sugar content. Uniform, intense red globe shaped roots, retaining a smooth texture grown to full size, but also suited for baby beet. Good disease and bolting tolerance.With over 15 million organic gardeners in the UK and the number growing year on year, were keen to support growers to produce the varieties they love, organically. Part of our range of organic seeds, Beetroot Rhonda looks as good as it tastes.
From Dobies Price: £2.49
Beetroot (Organic) Seeds - Rhonda
Delicious sweet flavour due to its naturally high sugar content. Uniform, intense red globe shaped roots, retaining a smooth texture grown to full size, but also suited for baby beet. Good disease and bolting tolerance. With over 15 million organic gardeners in the UK and the number growing year on year, we?re keen to support growers to produce the varieties they love, organically. Part of our range of organic seeds, Beetroot Rhonda looks as good as it tastes.
From Suttons Price: £2.49
Beetroot Seed - Bulls Blood
Produces extremely dark and juicy roots, with deep green/purple leaves which make a great baby leaf, but also work well in a mixed border to show off lighter coloured flowers. Sow April-July. Harvest April-October.
From Dobies Price: £1.50
Beetroot Seeds - Action F1
A superb garden performer, producing a good crop of high quality, smooth-skinned, deep red roots. The strong tops make it easier to harvest too. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.TOBY'S TIPS: Twist off rather than cutting when harvesting - to prevent roots 'bleeding' juice.
From Dobies Price: £2.49
Beetroot Seeds - Albina Verduna
A pure white, fairly smooth round heirloom beet from Holland. Its super-sweet white flesh is unusual and tasty and the greens are also good to eat. This beet is so sweet it can be used for making sugar, and they?re great for kids. Plus there?s no staining or mess when cooking!
From Suttons Price: £2.49
Beetroot Seeds - Alto F1
A customer favourite! Early-maturing variety with delicious, cylindrical roots which hold extremely well. Best harvested at the stage as pictured above, roots left on our trials grew huge yet stayed in good condition. A real belter of a variety which also stores well. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Maturing 12-16 weeks from sowing.
From Dobies Price: £2.49
Beetroot Seeds - Boltardy
Beetroot Seeds - Boltardy RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Beetroot Boltardy is perfect for exhibition. Being deep red in colour and smooth skinned, this beetroot is ideal. Being a winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, the beetroot boltardy will certainly be a favourite in no time at all. Recommended for early sowing.? Suitable for organic growing. Recommended for freezing. Twist off foliage when picking, as cutting will make stems bleed sap.HEALTH BENEFITS: Roots rich in potassium and folate plus some vitamin C, and known to improve the immune system. CULINARY TIPS: Tops of young roots can be used as spinach.
From Suttons Price: £1.75
Beetroot Seeds - Boltardy
Boltardy is a unique beetroot that's resistant to bolting (running to seed). It's got a rich colour, is of superb quality and can be sown earlier than any other beetroot. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Globe variety. Maturing 12-16 weeks from sowing.
From Dobies Price: £1.49
Beetroot Seeds - Boltardy
Resistant to bolting (running to seed), of rich colour and quality and can be sown earlier than any other beetroot. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Globe variety. Maturing 12-16 weeks from sowing.
From Dobies Price: £2.99
Beetroot Seeds - Bulls Blood
We love this dual use beet because you can eat the leaves and root. This reselected strain takes the yummy homegrown beetroot back to its true colours and produces those deep red leaves that you just don?t see enough of these days. Beetroot Bull?s Blood can be used for baby leaf salads or use the larger leaves as an alternative to spinach. And then there?s that tender root? Height 30-40cm (12-16); spread 10-20cm (4-8).
From Suttons Price: £2.99
Beetroot Seeds - Burpee's Golden
A superb, yellow-fleshed beetroot, providing great colour in salads or pickles. Leaves can be cooked like spinach. Row 4.5m (15'). Globe variety. Maturing 12-16 weeks from sowing.
From Dobies Price: £2.99
Beetroot Seeds - Burpees Golden
A superb, yellow-fleshed beetroot, providing great colour in salads or pickles. Leaves can be cooked like spinach. Row 4.5m (15?). Globe variety. Maturing 12-16 weeks from sowing. No staining, juice doesn?t run when cut. A good source of fibre, potassium and calcium. ?
From Suttons Price: £2.49
Beetroot Seeds - Chioggia
A striking Italian beetroot with ball-shaped light red roots which, when sliced, reveal highly ornamental rings. They are very sweet-tasting and ideal in salads or as a hot vegetable. Young leaves can be used in salads or cooked like spinach/chard.
From Suttons Price: £1.75
Beetroot Seeds - Chioggia Pink
We now have further seed supplies of this popular Italian beet, so are pleased to re-introduce this unique variety. Round in shape and with a light red outer skin, the main feature of this variety is its unique internal structure with concentric rosy-red and white rings.
From Dobies Price: £1.99
Beetroot Seeds - Cylindra
Cylindra?produces delicious, high quality, dark crimson, cylindrical roots which have a long storage period. Late ripening, slow to bolt, and shows good disease resistance.
From Suttons Price: £1.75
Beetroot Seeds - F1 Action
Good crops of high quality, sweet, smooth-skinned roots to harvest at golf ball size. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Ready to eat in just 6-12 weeks. Ideal for small spaces. These excellent 'baby' vegetables are bred to be at their sweetest and most nutritious whilst still small in size. They are ideal for small spaces such as the patio. SMALL SPACES made easy! Are you feeling left behind by the ?grow-your-own? revolution because you live in a gardenless apartment or have a postage-stamp-sized patio? Don?t worry: Anyone with a sunny windowsill, patio, or balcony can cultivate home-grown vegetables. In fact, choosing plants that are nutritious, delicious, and attractive is the ultimate way to maximise limited space. We?ve tried and tested these varieties suitable for small spaces and know they?ll succeed, but that?s not to say there aren?t other vegetable seeds that you could try! ?
From Suttons Price: £1.99
Beetroot Seeds - F1 Bolder
A superb elongated round golden beet, with sweet, juicy yellow flesh. Ideal for salads or for juicing. And, unlike red types, there's no danger of staining. ?
From Suttons Price: £2.99
Beetroot Seeds - F1 Pablo
An excellent item for both table and exhibition use. The exceptionally uniform, round, smooth skinned roots have an attractive rich red internal coloration and stand for a long period without becoming 'woody'. Very tasty. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.
From Suttons Price: £2.79
Beetroot Seeds - Globe 2
A popular round beet for table and exhibition. Crisp, dark crimson roots of excellent texture. (Also available: Fourfold Packet = Four standard packets at a special reduced price.)
From Suttons Price: £1.55
Beetroot Seeds - Globe 2
A popular round beet for table and exhibition. Crisp, dark crimson roots of excellent texture. (Also available: Fourfold Packet = Four standard packets at a special reduced price.)
From Suttons Price: £4.35
Beetroot Seeds - Rainbow Mix
Brighten up mealtimes with this superb mix of round-shaped beets that comes in a host of colours (including the striking Italian variety Chioggia, with its internal rings of dark pink and white). They're sweet and flavoursome, particularly if harvested as mouth-watering baby beets. An easy way to add both visual appeal and flavour to all those home-grown salads - and the kids will love them! Tom says: A mixture of our favourite colours and flavours, from the earthiness of the striped Chioggia to the super sweetness of the white Albina Verduna.
From Suttons Price: £1.99
Beetroot Seeds - Rainbow Mix
Unique attractive colour mix. Adds a new dimension to the salad plate, either raw or cooked, and great for making crisps too! Stems and leaves can also be used as salad ingredients. For window box, pots or garden.
From Dobies Price: £1.99
Beetroot Seeds - Rouge Crapaudine
Also known as Toad Beetroot, this variety is the oldest still in existence (estimated at 1000 years!). Crapaudine translates as female toad in french. Its not surprising then, that the skin is very rough and cracked, almost like tree bark. The carrot-shaped roots are extremely sweet and very dark, almost black in colour and the stalks are red tinged and are great in salads. Renowned for its superior flavour, Rouge Crapaudine is sought after by chefs around the globe. Dobies are proud to offer you the chance to grow this exquisite heritage favourite.
From Dobies Price: £3.00
Beetroot Seeds - Solo F1
Like Moneta, this first-class monogerm variety produces one strong seedling per cluster so much less thinning out is needed, compared to ordinary varieties. Its a fast maturing variety whose roots have a high sugar content, making them ideal as a baby beet, or left to mature. British bred, it shows good resistance to bolting, leaf spot, downy and powdery mildew. Row length per pack: 4m (13).
From Dobies Price: £1.99
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