Growing Beets from Seed, but we couldn't save it!
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- In this video, we're going give you great tips on how to grow beets from seed, then this happened and we couldn't save it! Thanks for watching!
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I have been gardening for three years now. When I began, I started watching your channel and have learned so much. This year we have had the most bountiful harvests and are eating well. Thank you for helping us be successful!
That is awesome!
I love how they manage to garden in the ground while taking care of their backs especially at this age.
We typially harvwst our beets at that size. I wouldnt see it as a total loss since young tender beets are delicious
😝😝 I can attest that beets taste like dirt! 😂 But, my family loves them and so they get to go into the garden. Now, Hollis, we get to teach you something. Direct sow to start with. When your soil is ready, use a soft ball to make a slight dent in the ground. That's your beet spacing. 1 seed in the center and just give it a tiny poke into the ground. Now, do NOT thin your seedlings! There are a few veggies that actually do better when they have a friend. Beets come in pods because that's the way they need to grow together. You can start 'thinning" when they reach close a little larger than a quarter for baby beets, and then let the rest go. You can usually get 3 pickings from beets doing it that way.
Hi Nancy Hi Hollis! Just wanted to say that that was one of the most beautiful videos ever especially the long-shot over the garden to the cross in the background! I had a seventeen-year-old daughter that passed away 2 years ago I know what that's like.
I learn how to garden when I was young from my grandparents and when they say a freeze is coming we would cover everything with plastic. I still do that today I've even went to the Dollar Tree in bought cheap clear plastic shower curtains and cover my garden so I wouldn't lose it
I love how you do your videos showing every step of the way from start to finish. Great job and you are so neat and tidy.
May go broke buying bone and blood meal! Haha
I was today years old to learn I could thin seedlings by just nipping off the ones I don't want. Thank you for this lesson. I hope you and the family are safe and your homestead survivied Idalia with little to no damamge.
Hollis, I learnt back in the late 1980s/1990s early, to adapt my taste for something i did not like. My first try was with pumpkin. I knew pumpkins were good for you, just like beets are good for you, so I started by cooking a very small piece fir dinner, and when cooked cut off smaller pieces & ate this. I did this until the whole of the pumpkin was gone. I would follow this extra small piece with something else on my plate that I liked. I repeated this until the pumpkin was all gone, about 3 - 4 bites. I would repeat this with my next 4 - 5 meals. Then I would increase the amount of the pumpkin and repeat the process. As I persisted with this my taste for pumpkin gradually changed and now I absolutely love pumpkin. I would encourage you to do the same with your beets. Beets are very good for you. You can boil, simmer, chip them, fry them, bake them. They can be added to a health drink, gratef raw into salad, and made into cakes & deserts. Beets are more versatile than most people know. It is worth a try. 👍
🌺So glad to see all is well after that hurricane!
Yes, thank you
@@HollisNancysHomesteadIndeed. Glad y'all seem to be OK, Mr. Hollis.👍
I’m surprised you guys don’t have frost blankets to cover some of your rows. One thing we do in Maine is if we r gonna get an early frost, we’ll cut the tops off the beets and hill the bulbs to cover them. Once it warms up again they’ll produce new growth and continue to grow.
There is a school of thought about not thinning beets because they tend to push apart anyway as they grow and you just harvest the bigger ones and let the smaller ones to keep growing. I tried the golden beets and my husband who doesn’t like beets likes these golden ones. I am going to try the no thinning method.
Lot works great .I live in the uk and we usually don't thin them out as they do push each other outwards as they grow .I do thin mine sometimes and I transplant the thinning and they grow on very well
Weird, those beets (pronounced kiojja) are grown here in northern Italy all year long and they usually survive the frost. Some leaves will do what you have seen, but the plant will continue to grow if you leave them in the ground.
I love your channel! You and Nancy do a great job from beginning to end and success and failures! NANCY HAS GOT TO DO A VIDEO ON THAT PEPPER STEAK!
Hollis and Nancy, you have such a beautiful view. Sorry about your beets. Praying that the hurricane passed you by with no damage.
I was just thinking about this. You're on your knees planting the baby plants anyway - would it not be just as easy to direct sow the seeds instead of having to up-pot them in between? Most farmers I watch don't cut off the extra seedlings and let the beets grow in clusters, pulling the largest so the others have room to grow. Beets are delicious roasted, and I also love them boiled with butter, salt and pepper. Harvard beets are especially good, too, but maybe not if you're watching your sugar intake. They're a super healthy food, so I hope you enjoy them now!
Thank you for this video. It really helps newer gardeners like me when we see that things don’t always work out even for the most experienced gardeners. I just planted my beets last week and they are sprouting. I’m very excited. I wish you better luck with your beets this year. I wouldn’t have eaten something that purple as a kid without holding my nose. However, as an adult, roasted beets & sweet potatoes are something I look forward to every year.
I'm looking forward to Part 2! Thank you for sharing the ups and downs of gardening. Blessings to you and Nancy and Bing Bing!
Hope y’all didn’t have problems from the hurricane
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I have been trying to plant beets for a while now I know how to then them out from watching your videos, I thank you for the opportunity to be a mentor to those who just starting out I thank God jehovah for you and nancy may the blessings of the lord be upon you ✝️✝️😇😇😇😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🫶🫶🫶🫶
Mama knew your taste buds would change, too. That is why she exposed you to a variety of tastes in your youth.
Aren't Mothers GREAT⁉️
Yes they are
I direct sow beets. Tedious, but I painstakingly drop them every couple of inches. I love to wash them, boil them like potatoes, slip the skin off and butter, salt and pepper! Delish! I also pickle them
They would have bounced back if you had left them in the ground. I had a similar thing happened when I planted my onions out too early (2 months before our last frost). I thought they were 90% gone but when it warmed up, most of the ones that looked dead suddenly sprang to life. Beets are just as hardy as onions and as long as the root is still alive, they will be fine. And my onions were still baby seedlings; your beets were much bigger when they were hit by the frost. And the peculiar part was, the onions that suffered multiple freezes where doing amazing vs the ones I replanted closer to and after our last frost, thinking the first batch was gone.
Good rule of thumb to remember is: roots grow better in the cold and green tops grow better in the heat.
Blessings to you and your wife. I enjoy your very informative videos. Thank you!
I love, love the golden beets. I shred them and roll them into spring rolls. Delicious 😋
You amaze me how you grow produce! Love beets!!!
Oh goodness, i can't grow beets for nothing. Thank you for the information and I shell try once again 😊.
Hope you guy's are well do to the hurricane. God bless 🙏🏻
Just wanted to let you know that the golden beets are much more milder than the red. I don’t like the dirt flavor, but the golden has less of the earthy and bitter flavor. They are better when roasted as well. There is more of something in the red than the golden beets that give them the strong earthy flavor. I learned this from a homesteading channel I watched. I can’t remember which one though. Just thought you might like to try it.😊
I love beets, they're a classic in New Zealand. We pickled and put serve them up in burgers (kiwiburger). The earthy, sweetness of the beets complements the saltiness of the patty.
Thanks for all the great gardening videos. Someday I hope I have a seed starting station. 😅❤
Try using a gallon jug over your beets. Should help with the frost.
How disappointing, well hopefully next year will go better! Hope you are all doing well after the hurricane! God bless both of you, Bing Bing and Nancy’s mom ✝️🙏❤️
Hollis, i dont think i've ever seen any birds near or on your property why not?
That freeze you got was the same time we got a big snow storm here in Arkansas that we dont see either. Knocked the huge tree in my yard down across my tiny garden. Still cleaning it up.
we eat beets those size Hollis - I would have cooked those small beets when they froze:)
I love your videos. I have to say, even if I get sidetracked and the video runs and I am doing something else, I love listening to the music that you have in the background. You play some great music!
Hollis, I’m 74 and I can’t believe how limber and strong you are. Admittedly both my shoulders are bad and the KNEES!, well I don’t want to have replacement surgery because anaesthesia can bring out Alzheimer’s symptoms early, and it’s in my family history. I just ordered a 🤬plant tower to try out for stuff like radishes & leafy greens.
Isn’t rain & even lightning beautiful !!??!!
I love beets. One of my favourites. I plant them every year. 🥰
Nancy is right about taste buds changing, I couldn't stand pea soup when I was younger, but now I love it
Oh my goodness... maybe I'll wait to start my beet seeds when temps go down... Pray all is well at the homestead after the hurricane... God Bless!
It’s sad to lose such a beautiful crop but you’re right, all you can do is move ahead and learn from the experience.
Have you considered switching to raised beds? It’s a lot easier on your body for planting and maintenance and makes it easier to protect crops from weather if you need to.
Beets are fantastic I have grown like 300 this year so far with more in the ground I can grow them 12 months out of the year.
Way to go Nancy😊 I love beets.the only one in the family. So i do not get to have them often.
I understand
That’s a shame about the beets! They looked so promising! Always great to learn from you both! Hugs to Bing Bing! BTW-can totally relate to disliking beets! Years ago I really didn’t like them! NOW I LOVE THEM! Too funny!
Best to All!
I love all of your advice and very informative knowledge of gardening. I just want to add on to what you mentioned about saving your back: raised beds. I don’t mean your typical raised beds of edging with soil. I’m talking about the tall raised beds. They really help your back, and just make the whole experience much easier. I know because I also have a large traditional ground garden, not as large as yours 😅 I keep my tall raised beds close to the house for the greens, and root veggies that I harvest regularly.
That rain was very relaxing. 😊. I’m following your directions in planting my garden this year & can’t wait to see the results. I love the seed to harvest videos. ❤
I have watched you get your ground ready for the last couple yrs and wow the dirt looks really good, all that tender loving care🤗🌺 thank you so much for sharing all your information, I learn something every time. The one thing I really appreciate is seeing how you start your seedlings, no greenhouse, everything is started outside, so I did that and it works, and I will from now on, my seedling stems seem to be stronger than in grown with heat mats and lighting, anyway that’s what I have noticed, I am doing it again with my fall plants here in VA. I will use my greenhouse for hauling the potted ones inside should weather get bad. Thanks again
Love this message this is a lot easier doing them in the trees then in the ground my back is killing me
This is interesting, I have always heard that beets don't like fertilizer, but you have proved otherwise. I will need to try beets again with fertilizer.
I hope you try these again. Young beetroot leaves are delicious in salads and the juice of young beetroot is sweet, a good alternative to red food colouring and well researched and documented medicinal properties esp for lung health.
I live in central coastal Florida and these last couple of years of fall gardens have been so disappointing. And this hot dry summer has me wanting to give up. But, hope is eternal, and I have trays and trays of seedling coming up.
I love all that your sharing please keep sharing because i'm learing so much from you and your knowledge. Thank you for sharing. 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
So glad our videos are helpful for you. Yes, we are trying to continue making videos. We are having to cut back on our garden due to age and health issues. We are trying as long as our bodies are able❤️
As a good explanation it’s easy to remember what you talking about
I love your channel been watching since before Florida. But you don't have to thin beets. Can multisow them and harvest the ones around as the season progresses and let the last final one get really large
It’s still in the hundreds here in Texas. I didn’t realize it froze this early in Florida. 😮
I feel your pain - went through the same thing in central Texas.
Hi ! The beets dont like the hot température. You said you dont like beets m'y husband was like you and I have tried the one your doing ,there milder then the Red one but à better one for someone like you both is the YELLOW BEETS. They are more than mild and they are delicius 😊
Charles Dowdling thins the beets when he can harvest the baby beets as an early treat! Then he has three harvests from one sowing and no thinking!
I pray the storm missed y'all.
Do you have a video on how to ammend your in ground garden. My garden has more sand then dirt and it did not produce well this year.
God bless you two and Bing bing
Wow, I didn't know you had frost in FL.
Good to see you again!!😀
We love to roast beets in the oven, but more than that, the beet greens are delicious! Our last crop was great, so we'll plant twice as many this time so we can pickle at least half.
Love love love roasted beets. Absolutely delicious.
Omg! I requested this video a while back. Thank you!!!!❤
Well that's too bad about losing your beet crop last year I hope this year will be better you just never know when it comes to weather like that and that is definitely unusual for Florida
beets with onions and potatoes smothered in a cast iron pot are very delicious.
Thanks so much for this. I live in your zone, so will start my beets this week. Love to Bing Bing🥰
Have fun!
The only reason I grow beetroot is to utilise the leaves for salads during our winter when we we can't grow any greens like lettuce. Same with Swiss Chard. Both great cooler weather greens. Great video as usual gang and regards from Australia 🦘🦘
Hollis, I have the same cultivator you have FG110. I can’t find the transmission grease they said required & wondered what you use. Thank you for any help you’d share. Bless you & Nancy.
That freeze last year was bad! We even lost some well established fruit trees up in GA from it! Better luck next time 😊
Roast them with a light garlic sauce, yum!
Tyvm I literally just planted beets for the first time ever today. I put 3 pods in each hole. Ugh. Ill be thinning them for sure
Thanks for sharing!!! Blessing!!!
I hated beets as a kid too. Recently I heard someone talk about sautaying the leaves so I gave it a shot. Game changer. Now I love beets. I sautay the whole beet with the greens...yum
Beet greens is like swiss chard and kale sauteed fantastic.
My mom made them that way. So good.
You have turned your sandy Florida soil into such a beautiful brown rich soil! I am looking at doing the same in Northern Nevada sandy soil next year. It's been great learning from you these past two years. I feel ready to tackle the job! Thank you
How did y’all fair the hurricane
Somehow, I cannot eat hot beets but cooked PICKLED beets especially in a chilled salad with green beans are great!
Beautiful gardens
May I ask what month you start your "fall/ winter" garden seeds?
Great videos...love tour discipline and work spirit
Zhave you grown any purple collards?.
Hope you got through Idalia alright.
I have had better luck direct planting but I’m only 63.😆 I got one of those rolling garden seats I hate bending over for long and my knees won’t tolerate abuse!
I wouldn't touch a beet until the last couple of years. They're good roasted in the oven. That Arctic blast was brutal to our Southern gardens.😢
Thx
Can i use the pete moss black kow and perlite mix for my seed starting also
Has the weather affected your plants this year? Besides these beets, what else didn't work out this year? Our cilantro has not grown well the past few times we planted. I think it has just been too hot.
I plant Beets for juicing
I love them but having trouble growing beets
It was so cold for days. 9 degrees in South Carolina. Brrr
Good luck next year folks. Not a fan of beets myself
Clean the beets. Cut off the ends. Let them sit and dry for a few hours. Then rub the skin with olive oii, coarse sea salt, pepper, oregano. Then wrap with aluminum foil, twice. Then put in oven at 200 degrees and roast all day. Roasted beets are fabulous!
Those beets would have reshooted and the bulb would continue to grow. It is a pity you didn't leave some to experiment to see what would happen. Maybe next time if you get another freeze.
I will be71 in 2 weeks still garden on my hands and knees , better than bending .
Personally, I put mine in the garden - some years back - in late July, I waited until like first frost, then I more or less pulled what was there. Can't say that I got around to eating them, but the carrots were good.
Love pickled beets with pinto beans
Darn. I love beets. Try ‘em roasted, in a salad😊
did you buy frost covers after that year?
No ma’am. Adjusted our planting schedule
@@HollisNancysHomestead thats what I do. do you have the plans for this year?
I only like beets PICKLED. 😊
❤Hey friends!!!
when did you flim this?
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oh so sorry quick question ...why didn't you cover them?