Beetroot - planting

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Beetroot provides a tasty ingredient in salads, stews and soups. It likes well-drained, fertile soil although tolerant of most soil types. It definitely doesn't like recently manured soil, which causes the beetroots to become mis-shapen

Here's a video tutorial on planting beetroot

Beetroot

I always so my beetroot in individual seed sowing trays, that way I can plant them out when they are established and do not need any thinning.

Beetroot

hi i tried growin beetroot last year but although i had beatifull leaves the root never fattened up and then went a bit squidgy when winter started any ideas why? before i try again this year

Thanks