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Originally Posted by imp
I like beets many ways, but a summer fav is either sliced beets or baby whole beets and some green salad with a dab of cottage cheese .
Don have you ever tried the golden or white beets if you don't like the red mess ( I always bake mine, so it's not much of a mess for me).
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I had some beet seed packets last summer that I bought off some seed rack in some store. I thought they were all Detroit Red beets. When I harvested and baked a few the other day, I was surprised to find two or three varieties including orange and multicolor and red. The skins were all the same color, but after cooking and peeling them, they were very different and the orange variety was sweeter.
I plan on planting more beets next spring, but I will be more deliberate in selecting varieties and caring for them. I didn't put much effort into growing them this year other than planting some seed to fill in some empty spots in my garden.