A Little Tip

Will do John. I will also trial it again.

 

I can remember years ago Geoff Hamilton saying sprinkle salt along beetroot rows.
I've never tried it, but its apparently a coastal plant from N. Africa, as I remember, and grows in salt air.

 

And it works.

 

I think a lot of people are put off by the "conventional" way beetroot is often presented, especially doused in vinegar (although I love it).

Instead Dai, try it grated raw with chopped orange as a salad. Tastes completely different.

Chris

 

Beet & Celery are both descended from Seashore plants & still grow wild there.

There were 2 cannisters in the shed, one marked Sodium Chloride, the other Sodium Chlorate.... Oh bother:DOH:

 

I've got one of Peter Seabrookes gardening books that I bought in the 1980's when we first started allotmenteering and he said the same thing about salt so I gave it a go and it did make the beetroot a much brighter colour but don't know about improving the taste as I can't stand the stuff as I was forced to eat it at school dinners and it put me off for life.

The variety we always grew in theose days was Bolthardy but I don't know whether it was the variety it's self that taste ok but Mr K nevr complained.These days though he preferes his beetroot cooked and eaten straight away with just the odd jar pickled for xmas

 

Now if we had a tips page, perhaps month by month or some such format...little gems like this would not get "buried" in old/achived forum threads.

Steve...

 

That's a great idea Steve. Perhaps it could be incorporated with 'old medicinal remedies' too. I used one just a couple of hours ago.

 

Oh not the piles again Sheal

 

No not those ziggy. My instant cure for those confounded itching gnat bites!