You are more than welcome, hope you have great success and lots of lovely salads, borscht, pickles, sweetfire and all the other wonderful things you can do with beetroot
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Thank you. I am actually growing them in my flower beds. I came up with this amazing idea that as I dont have a vegetable patch and i dont want to give up flower space as i love flowers, I would grow some vegetables amongst my flowers. Turns out this is actually a thing that people do and have done for years. This totally passed me by. There was I thinking I had invented some new gardening method 🤣🤣
Well, if you had never heard of that style then you did invent it!
Weirdly I was watching my much loved DVDs of Geoff Hamilton last night (missing the TV gardening shows now) and one of those is called Cottage Gardens - just the sort of thing you describe. If you can find a copy I think you would love it.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I was going to say, from what I've read, that describes the original cottage style to a tee, flowers and veg all jumbled in together.
If you can find it, the series Alys Fowler did on BBC I think might also be interesting. Her whole garden was dedicated to veg, mostly, but planted in such a way as to be ornamental as well as edible.
I sowed beetroot boltardy for the first time around 2 weeks ago into cells on a sunny windowsill and many have germinated. I think they are going leggy. What do I do to prevent them getting leggy? I do not have a greenhouse. When do I thin the seedlings? TIA.
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And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
hello amberspy.i to start my boltardy beets in modules never had any probs re planting in to veg plot always got a good crop.hope hope you do to good luck peter.
I watched an old episode of GW episode where monty said he sometimes plants them in clumps of 3 or 4 and harvests golf ball sized beetroots which taste better. I also sowed some beetroot for the first time but didn’t realise they didn’t like root disturbance so I’ll just plant all my seedlings out together and see what happens.
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Weirdly I was watching my much loved DVDs of Geoff Hamilton last night (missing the TV gardening shows now) and one of those is called Cottage Gardens - just the sort of thing you describe. If you can find a copy I think you would love it.
If you can find it, the series Alys Fowler did on BBC I think might also be interesting. Her whole garden was dedicated to veg, mostly, but planted in such a way as to be ornamental as well as edible.
I will look it up @Latimer
beetroot for the first time but didn’t realise they didn’t like root disturbance so I’ll just plant all my seedlings out together and see what happens.