We ate food from our garden tonight! Woo! Three beautiful beets that Georg roasted and added to a salad with nice greens, sugar snap peas, red peppers, pickled onions, mild goat cheese and leftover roast chicken. It was so yum. I read that beets should be picked no larger than 2 inches in diameter; any bigger and they start to get woody and tough. These were a bit smaller, maybe more like 1.5", and they were so tender and sweet. We saved the greens to have another night.
Unfortunately that's it for the first beet harvest. I must have done something wrong early on (maybe planted too early?), because only 3 beets came up from that first row. The second row was planted two weeks later and all of them came up. And I planted another row every 2 weeks after that. So we'll have wonderful yummy beets again, every 2 weeks for the rest of the summer. Yay!
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