From my youth back in the early holocene, I remember picking beets late in the year. My Grandmother would supervise and picked out all the salvageable beet greens. They would promptly be made into soup, rough chopped, added to kielbasa water. whole peppercorns were added along with a few whole cloves and dill pickle juice right at the end. Topped with sour cream, and homemade Polish dark bread on the side. Looking back, we ate like kings, although it was peasant food.
Cool! Talk about procrastination, picked up about 20 or so beets, not as big as ones you got, from under the pile of fall leaves in my garden yesterday. Will pickle them today. Haven't really grown beets for the roots yet, maybe next year, but we are huuuuge consumers of the beet greens. Sautéed with garlic is the best!
Put your beets layered with peat moss in plastic bag put into a 5 gallon container. Can do this with carrots and parsnips. Lasts most of winter in my basement.
Definitely a mild fall....here in the Mojave desert I have had way better results from my tomatoes, November through yesterday, lots of tomatoes, but the plants are taking a hit. In the summer we didn't get any tomatoes, lots of worms, 30 a day, and mice and squirrels eating them...but once it got cooler, they all went away... Got our first freeze last night.
Looks like a good harvest I'm going to try my hand at doing beats next year. I am not going to do any type of cucumbers or anything from that family next year. Here in Indian Brook #14, I got an invasion of cucumber beetles last year.
On another topic, I know everyone says not to clean your root vegies before storing so I tried it with carrots I harvested this summer before putting them into the refrigerator. They got soft fairly quickly by doing it that way for me. The next batch I harvested I scrubbed all the dirt off with water and let them dry and then put them in the refrigerator and they lasted much longer. Not sure why that method works better for me but it does.
Doesn't make any sense. They go soft because they dehydrate. The skin is the means by which the root maintains its water. By scrubbing the skin you weaken the skin and decrease the carrots ability to maintain moisture. I think your carrots stayed good longer despite the fact that you scrubbed them, and that there was some other reason that the dirty ones went soft. It's simply not the kind of thing that works for some and not for others. It's physics and biology.
I worked at a local commercial carrot barn in my teens and they always washed the carrots before long term storage. Then they were heaped into the carrot barn, up to about 10’ deep and we bagged them all winter for local sales. I’ve also noticed the same, my carrots seem to last longer when washed before storage. I assumed it was due to adding more moisture right before they got stored but really never thought much about it.
@@arlisswirtanen7794 yes I was thinking the same thing. The carrots I left dirty I put in a paper bag but the ones I washed I put in a sealed plastic bag so it must have been the moisture that allowed them to store better.
yes procrastination .... it's my specialty too
From my youth back in the early holocene, I remember picking beets late in the year. My Grandmother would supervise and picked out all the salvageable beet greens. They would promptly be made into soup, rough chopped, added to kielbasa water. whole peppercorns were added along with a few whole cloves and dill pickle juice right at the end. Topped with sour cream, and homemade Polish dark bread on the side. Looking back, we ate like kings, although it was peasant food.
That soup sounds awesome!
@@maritimegardening4887 She would have freaked out with the greens being left behind!
These days peasant food is the most sort after food in top end restruants, ordinary folk cant afford. So yes, we did eat like kings!
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Cool! Talk about procrastination, picked up about 20 or so beets, not as big as ones you got, from under the pile of fall leaves in my garden yesterday. Will pickle them today. Haven't really grown beets for the roots yet, maybe next year, but we are huuuuge consumers of the beet greens. Sautéed with garlic is the best!
Lol, if I did have any beets I'd need a jackhammer to get them out.
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Put your beets layered with peat moss in plastic bag put into a 5 gallon container. Can do this with carrots and parsnips. Lasts most of winter in my basement.
Never put off until tomorrow what can wait until the day after.
Still have a couple beets going that I'd been just using for greens lol.
Hey ✌️from Cape Breton,Nova Scotia
You have rain . We had a tornado ! Love beets too but have a hard time growing them.
Thank you! That's me today :)
Nice late harvest! Procrastination for the win! Haha
Definitely a mild fall....here in the Mojave desert I have had way better results from my tomatoes, November through yesterday, lots of tomatoes, but the plants are taking a hit. In the summer we didn't get any tomatoes, lots of worms, 30 a day, and mice and squirrels eating them...but once it got cooler, they all went away...
Got our first freeze last night.
Looks like a good harvest I'm going to try my hand at doing beats next year. I am not going to do any type of cucumbers or anything from that family next year. Here in Indian Brook #14, I got an invasion of cucumber beetles last year.
On another topic, I know everyone says not to clean your root vegies before storing so I tried it with carrots I harvested this summer before putting them into the refrigerator. They got soft fairly quickly by doing it that way for me. The next batch I harvested I scrubbed all the dirt off with water and let them dry and then put them in the refrigerator and they lasted much longer. Not sure why that method works better for me but it does.
Doesn't make any sense. They go soft because they dehydrate. The skin is the means by which the root maintains its water. By scrubbing the skin you weaken the skin and decrease the carrots ability to maintain moisture. I think your carrots stayed good longer despite the fact that you scrubbed them, and that there was some other reason that the dirty ones went soft. It's simply not the kind of thing that works for some and not for others. It's physics and biology.
I worked at a local commercial carrot barn in my teens and they always washed the carrots before long term storage. Then they were heaped into the carrot barn, up to about 10’ deep and we bagged them all winter for local sales.
I’ve also noticed the same, my carrots seem to last longer when washed before storage. I assumed it was due to adding more moisture right before they got stored but really never thought much about it.
@@arlisswirtanen7794 yes I was thinking the same thing. The carrots I left dirty I put in a paper bag but the ones I washed I put in a sealed plastic bag so it must have been the moisture that allowed them to store better.
In zone 4 everything is frozen solid
Good harvest. Some big enough for beet burgers!!
You got that right!
What are beet burgers?
@@edwardclark7385 Instead of a meat patty, on a burger, use a slice of roasted beetroot.
Nice size beets, which was not the case for me.
Last half hour of sunlight.... so 4pm? LOL
That's about right
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Funny how the ground bugs don't bother your beets like they do your potatoes if you leave them in the ground too long.
I agree - makes no sense - especially when you consider the higher sugar content in the beet. I guess those pests are specific to the potato
How long take it
They should be good for up to 6 months