Touchstone Gold Beet - Organic
100 seeds per packet approx.
Matures in 55 days.
Improved Burpee’s Golden type. Touchstone Gold offers very uniform root shape and vibrant interior colour with almost no zoning. Its seedling vigour and germination is much better than Burpee’s Golden. The strong, medium green tops have contrasting petioles. Seed is clean and sized. Tolerance to leaf diseases.
Sow 1cm (½”) deep, 5-10cm (2-4″) apart in rows 30-45cm (12-18″) apart.
Growing
Ideal pH: 6.0-6.8. For uniformly sized beets, thin carefully to 7-15cm (3-6″) apart when seedlings are 5cm (2″) tall. Eat thinned plants, roots and all. root size is controlled by spacing and variety.
Harvest
Harvest at any size, but for the best flavour, pull the beets as soon as they have reached full-size. Eat the greens too. Store in the ground, or in moist peat or sand just above freezing.
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