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Big Buck
Blend Sugar beet seeds are easy and fun to grow. They are an excellent crop to
grow for wildlife feed and for their great tasting greens.
Mature
sugar beets get up to 1 foot long, weigh 3 - 5 pounds and produce an average of
3 teaspoons of sugar.
Sow
sugar beet seeds ¼
inch deep in well drained soil 50 to 85 degrees F. Plant 2-3 seeds every 3
inches or so. Keep seeds moist, sugar beets need to stay moist, never let them
get dry. You will start to see sprouts in 14 -
21 days.
Thin sugar beets to 4" apart when
plants are 3" tall. The sugar beet seedlings that get removed can be cooked and
are very similar to spinach. You can also leave the marble size root attached to
the greens.
Sugar Beets have extremely
shallow roots so you will need to hand weed them early and frequently. Sugar
Beets compete poorly with weeds. Keep watered regularly, do not let dry out. By
mid summer sugar beets will have leaves that are 1-2 feet tall.
Sugar beets mature in only 45
days. Dig or pull when the roots are 2 inches or bigger. You can harvest sugar
beets for greens any time.
These beets are adaptable to most
soils and are frost tolerant. Great for deer feed and bait.
Packet contains 1 teaspoon sugar beet seed.
Approximately 250 seeds.
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Millington
Seed packets come complete
with growing
instructions on each packet. The seeds are in small reusable Zippit
bags.
