These two beetroots have been baked and their young leaves used in a salad. There are half a dozen plants waiting to be pulled out and I should do it soon before the tubers grow too mature. They are so easy to grow in rich friable soil. I bought a punnet of seedlings and that was sufficient for my needs. I grew them in one of my vegetable boxes. When they are all harvested I may put in lettuce seedlings which I am finding in different parts of the garden. If you look carefully at the picture below you will see a lettuce gone to seeds and in the background some beets doing the same.
Tidiness is not in my nature. The plants have a way of self sowing. I pull out the excesses and chop them for mulch and for the compost bin. I don't think I will ever produce neat rows in my garden. I will find that too dull.
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