On 8 May 2003 20:09:13 GMT, wrote:

On Thu, 08 May 2003 09:54:01 -0400, Pat Meadows wrote:
On Thu, 08 May 2003 13:15:05 GMT, The Cook
wrote:

Shoot. That's not encouraging. I like beets very much and
would like to have more than two of them.

Pat


how's the soil ph and general condition...perhaps you need some
amendments

Don't think so. Everything else grows splendidly, including
chard, a close relative of beets, in fact it's a variety of
_Beta vulgaris_. And red beets were fine last year, I'm
beginning to think it's just the golden beets - which are
especially nice, darn it.

We've been amending the soil - replacing it is more accurate
- with lovely spent-mushroom soil. Our 'native' soil is
heavy clay.

The second batch of beet seeds I did in the house, in
soil-less seed-starting mix. 2 out of 12 germinated.
That's 2 out of 24 in all.

Pat