I just wanted to compliment your editing. The way you show shots of performing various tasks as you describe concepts is incredible. No other UA-camr pulls this off like you do. We either have to watch them talk or work in silence. Your videos are rarely silent, and always active. Really great work mixing things up like this. It makes for a very enjoyable experience.
@@lucyfyfe4563 I really like how you compliment the compliment of the complimenters’ complimenter. There are rarely any people being thoughtful like this 🙏🏼
Funny story., many years ago I tried roasted beets, it was the first time I had tried beets any other way than pickled. I loved them so much I must have eaten 4 or 5 of them, they're delicious. The next day of course I had forgotten that I had eaten them with dinner and while taking care if my "morning business" thought I had massive internal bleeding due to the color left in the porcelain.
Good day Mark. You forgot one more tip: beets prefer alkaline soil and therefore really like ash. I just put ash from wood burning around beets and they grow bigger and better then without it.
Italians put all their wood ash in the soil during the winter. It is speculated that they were rated as the healthiest in the world because of it ....... but Zi really think it is because of the pasta and bread 😋
As a chef, my tip is to leave a few centimeters of roots and stems on your beets. This reduces colour bleed when you boil or bake them. Unless you want the colour for some other purpose of course, then chop them off.
Yes, I've always done that but a lot of grocers sell beets that have the tops completely cut off, so they can sell the tops for more. I find these are old and like boiling rocks.
While this is true, if you let them callous over, they bleed a bit less I've found, but to be fair that's my personal very fresh produce that I also store for a bit. But I do like to keep the tips on, they're like fun little blood carrots! :)
@@jillhumphrys8073 Yeah I've never had a problem with it. In the last couple of years I've been experimenting with White Beetroot and Burpees Golden Beetroot. They taste different from the red which I still grow as well sometimes I cook the three and have them on the same plate I also use the leaves in stir fries and salads and with cooked meals . I don't cook the leaves I prefer them..... natural. As I stated at the start I've never had any Beetroot bleed
Stir fry the leaves with a chopped chilli, garlic and some chopped ginger. Turn down the heat and let steam for a couple of minutes. Food of the gods. Roast the beets on a bed of star anise, peppercorn fennel seed or whatever fragrant seeds you have, add some goats cheese once the beets are warm and drizzle over olive oil and balsamic; you need nothing else
Here in NWArkansas, USA, we like a like potatoes fried with onion. I like to dice beets and pan fry them with onions, salt pepper, and rosemary! They come out glossy and sweet! I also cook carrots that way!
Beetroot is loaded with the antioxidant lycopene, which is great for prostate health. Make a chocolate cake the way you would a carrot cake, swapping the carrot with beetroot. YUMMY! Borshch/borsht/barszcz is a great soup and there are more variants to it than a cat has hairs- with and without meat.
This sounds amazing! Would you mind linking me your source for effects of lycopene on the prostate? And I hate to tell you this but if you are after lycopene in your food beets are the absolute worst. There are 0 μg of lycopene in 100g of beets aka. beets have no lycopene.
So, I came across this video because my son has been begging to grow beets and I wanted to do research, and now I think he's going to get his beet and carrot garden this year. Gotta love when kids want to get in the dirt 🥰
Can I pick a few beet leaves off when they are still small if I just take a couple from each plant? They get a bit too tough for my taste when they get large. Thanks!
Here in Ukraine it's one of the staple veggies, grown in massive amounts. It's really cheap and is used in traditional cuisine. The one way we usually don't eat is pickling, haha.
I'm, NWArkansas, USA, we commonly fry diced potatoes in a skillet with onions. Some people call them home fries or cottage fries. I discovered that frying beets this way with onions, salt and pepper are so good! Give it a try! Eat them as a side dish to just about anything, but burgers or any kind of BBQ are the best. Also, I make a roasted root vegetable dish at Christmas and beeta are included. Just dice, toss them in olive oil, salt pepper and rosemary and roast in a single layer for 45 minutes at 375 degrees.
@@jillhumphrys8073 Thanks for the tip, I am going to try that! Overhere in the Netherlands I like to make a salad out of them. Boil the beets for about 40 min. and after that peel them en chop them into cubes. Then chop an onion into very little pieces add that to the beets and add some mayonaise pepper and salt to taste and some drops of worshestershire sauce. Very nice with a barbeque on a hot day!
No matter the video age, your bubbly personality always shines through! LOVE IT! And honestly, thank you for staying positive; you are a light in my dark day many times a week. Cheers Mate!
I grew up in a Mexican household eating beet like carrots. "Mexican household" meaning, we chopped them up and added lemon, salt and chilly powder (or Valentina sauce) then ate it with a fork like a salad. We also added chopped up carrots, jicama, tomato, cucumber, mango, celery, cilantro, etc. Basically any fruit or veggie we wanted and found in the fridge. 🙊 Beets are a bit harder to cut than carrots or jicama but they're just as delicious 😋 I have never seen "pickled beets". The only beet product I've seen in Tijuana is canned beets just like canned corn. Basically cut and cooked in a slighty salty brine. Never saw them again🤣
This is the absolute best video on beets on UA-cam! I’ve been searching on and off for info for weeks and finally someone (you) talks about Everything! TY! Please keep teaching us! We are so grateful Sir!
Hey Mark! I grew beetroot for the first time last year and the leaves were so shiny. It was as if someone came into my garden overnight and polished them. Your viewers should be warned that the difference between store bought and home grown beetroot is immense. We did dine out on the young leaves for a long time before accessing the roots. The roots of freshly picked beetroot are rich if they are not pickled. Hardly anything to complain about because home grown is best and a large pot is all you need to start. This season I am trying an Italian style of Beetroot with concentric pink/red and white rings when you cut into them. I think they are called Pioggia. Cheers!
@@gifgloria Mostly it is a very long To Do List of things that I do in the garden. e.g. What and when and how many seeds sown, transplanted, seedlings or starts purchased and when they were planted. What fertilisers, compost or other additives I add to the soil to improve soil health. How well each vegetable or fruit went in a particular season. Harvest dates to anticipate but the most important of all is Observation which includes a weather forecast. If you just get out and observe your garden, you can discover so many things, flowers, beneficial insects, pests, diseases, relaxation and pride in what you have accomplished. I think it kept me sane during the pandemic and it helps overcome the fear of not knowing what works well in your garden.
@@craigmetcalfe1749 Thanks so much, Craig, for the great list! As a new gardener I realize that I should keep a very specific journal and have started. Your list adds a few things I hadn't gotten to because I'm not far enough through the growing process yet. Just germinating seeds and up-potting a few seedlings so far. Also, I'm doing some soil experiments and am keeping track of those. I have lots of learning ahead of and do appreciate those who are willing to share their journeys and recommendations. Thanks again! Have a bountiful harvest this year! Mary
Love the colour of beets Mark as much as the colour of blackberries, don't forget that store bought beets can be planted and they will keep growing if you keep chopping their tops off for salad, a better place to store them is in the ground I have found instead of my fridge when I buy them from the farmer's markets with their roots and tops in tack, then I just pick at my own leisure to use...
You can't talk about cooking beets without mentioning Borscht, a delicious beet soup which is a traditional Ukrainian dish. Many other cultures have their own version of this soup. My grandma used to make the soup and added a cheap cut of meat, a great way to stretch your dollar. I also love the orange yellow variety of beets, cubed with a little butter and salt, placed on the bbq while you cook your meat; so delicious.
I enjoy beet root roasted but thus soup sounds delicious! I'll be looking for recipes and trying this in the fall. Nothing like a bowl of hearty soup as the weather turns cooler.
I always love Mark’s comments, like…..”ripper”. Mark thank you for what you do even on a bad day I can pull up your videos and they will make me smile.
We have two crops of beets a year - one in the early spring, and one in the fall. We will be harvesting our fall crop in a couple weeks. Can't have too many beets!
Beetroot really does benefit from a wicking bed. They can regulate their own water usage - they like the damp (ish) but not wet soil. I learned a lot from this though, particularly regarding planter the seeds as is.
The kids plucked one of our small (a bit bigger than a golf ball sized) beat, so I peeled the it, washed it, and thought, let me taste what it will be like fresh and raw like that, and remarkably, I never tasted a beatroot that juicy before and it also has a very plumb-like taste for that matter.
Very nice sir.I am fond of kitchen gardening.I also sown beetroots , after one week ,i shall pick them out.Its very easy to grow spinach,beetroot ,radish ,fennugreek and carrots.Its really enjoying to have these veggiez in our kitchen garden. Hats off you sir
I love the beet greens! I fry them with eggs, and add them with my other greens cooked in stock. I see all those greens on the ground and panic lol. Eat them too!
Love this, brother. I've always wondered about acting against nature by assuming beets (and chard, etc.) are just silly for keeping groups of seeds together. I'm gonna hedge bets and do both. Thanks for sharing your wisdom, man.
I use the root, stems and leaves in my borscht. Water, beet parts, onion, sugar, white vinegar, garnish with sour cream. Simple but _delicious!_ (If you like picked beets you'd like my borscht.)
I just discovered your channel last night and I'm so glad I did. I really enjoy your love for growing fresh veggies...you're like the Steve Irwin of gardening...your enthusiasm is contagious! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us.
You can plant tiny beets again, and just water them in real well. They just keep growing beautifully. I have done so with tiny store bought beets, that looked semi dry and crummy, and they grew beautifully, most bolted and gave me seeds too. The beet roots were still edible, and much larger too.
Perfect-sized beets. Great advice re: spacing. I grow beets tight too, but using Charles Dowding's multi-sown plugs. Next year I'll experiment your method, sowing in place. Anyway, as usual, a well-produced video with thoughtful editing, That's what makes your channel one of my top-2 gardening channels. Sometimes you're #1, sometimes #2... but this vid has you at #1 spot again. Thanks for the hard work. And cheers.
Lol! I watch you and Charles D all the time. Two reasons: you both are teachers. He talks about no dig and do lots of comparison but because I live in the north coast of NSW - I have to watch you. Awesome content and editing
Thanks for the info. Beetroot is a favorite with me! Living in Taiwan and this is the first time in my adult life I've had a challenge growing vegetables!
The "looking and seeing nature through her eyes" line really got me. That is a very profound way of looking at gardening and a very smart observation/theory of a plants seed growth/dispersion method and the reasoning thereof.
Mom is Dutch, and the lowlands love their mayo. I grew up with grated beets w/ a dollop of mayo, really easy way to get your kids to eat them because of the neon red color. Boil 4 or 5 medium beets until a fork can prick through the skin, maybe an 1/8 in. deep. Cool, peel and grate into rinsed out pot (1 pot dish) and return to stove over low heat. Mix in about (I don't measure, too lazy) 2 Tbsp cider vinegar and sugar and mix until sugar is dissolved. Plate and add a bit of mayo and mix.
Your youtube channel is Godsent. I cannot have a regular garden as a traveling construction worker and watching you and daydreaming is my favorite pastime. Thank you so much for making high quality common sense content without unnecessary hype and outstanding editing. God bless you, my good man.
When I cook the beets, I wash them really good and the water I use for my drinking daily instead of just throwing it or for my plants/vegetables, it’s replenish and hydrate ur body, the same when I boil my corn, I drink the water from boiled corn, I removed the husk of course or remove the layers that is dirty. It’s sweet and good for you. 😇👍👍
I love love beetroot! I never have enough beetroot leaves though as I love to add them to my daily salads as they‘re so yummy and nutritious. I eat low carb so the leaves are more important than the roots to me although I ferment the roots to lower the carbs in the roots so that I can enjoy them occasionally...
Italians eat a high carb diet, they are thin, health and live the longest...... so why they say to eat low carb diets? Because they want you to have low energy snd be sick........ oh but I avoid gluten / carbs and I feel better. ...... NO NO. You avoid junk you buy in the supermarket (which is imitation of real food) and therefore feel better. The body’s easiest food to process into energy is a carb. For Everything else it needs to use complicated system to get the glucose it needs.
Ive never tried roasted beets but I am for sure this year. Thanks for showing me that! You always teach me loads on your videos. I watch them over and over again
You can also ferment in a brine for making kvass. Delicious to drink and the roots taste great. Much less sour than pickled beets, with a more complex flavor. Extremely healthy and full of enzymes
This guy is the real deal. He loves what he does and he spreads the joy and therapy of gardening across the world. Please like and subscribe, there are too many popular gardening channels that are full of hype, poor advice and product placement. Please support this guy, people need to see this. Also, as a Russian, I consume tons of beets and what he says about the flavor is true. Try a roasted beet or a boiled and cooled down beet in your veggie salad. It is a superfood.
Just a tip for future reference, may help you put less effort into the beets however achieve same result. The size of your raised beds are enough to sustain beets for 3/4/5 seasons. They don’t need to be as wet as you’re seeming to keep them, understand the top inch dry doesn’t mean the whole raised bed isn’t moist the next 3 foot down, especially if you’ve added material to hold moisture. Overwatering will however cause you to need to add more amendments/nutrients within the next year or so as you’ll wash it all down through the raised bed, leaving only the drained sandy loamy ish bits of sand/dirt. So tip, understand what moisture is, then you won’t have the issue of needing to water BEETS everyday, as well as re amending your soil for BEETS, so often. My point here is that you’re growing BEETS, one of the easiest things to grow, simplify it a bit, it WILL actually save you time and effort with this
There is more than a few varieties. One I got, Chicagoga (probably not spelled right) or the Candy-Cane as one could call it, had red and white stripes that could liven up a salad - but you need to serve it raw for the effect to really work. Another, a yellow variety, is useful to keep the "red" juice from coloring everything else, as its juice isn't as obvious. Then another is more cylindrical than ball-shaped. Still waiting on them, as, based on a few that the deer/rabbits have pulled, they're still small. Same with the carrots, based upon a few I accidentally pulled while weeding, but they were tasty.
try a motion detector with a light bulb on one side, and a radio plugged into the other; when a deer gets close, the light and radio come on at the same time. the deer will split, i guarantee it! talk radio is best, i put the radio in a bucket; strap it in, and place it upside down on a pole of some sort.
@@dougreynolds2813 Would be useful, but my garden is like 100+ yards from my place, and the neighbor on my one side might not like hearing a radio playing - got enough issues with them, we just try to keep things civil.
Last summer in Germany it was very dry again. The areas where the beets grow tight in cluster works much better then in thin rows. They needed less water and grow much healthier and bigger. I harvested the every second beet, so that the remaining ones had the oprtunity to grow bigger without deformation.
When you pull beet from ground and take off the leaves, you should leave about 2 inches of leaf stem from the beetroot so when you cook the beet all the color stays in the beetroot. You will still have red bleed from the beetroot, but not as bad.
I love that Australians put pickle beets and fried eggs in hamburgers. If I go to Mt Magnet I always get a deluxe burger. Australian also call beets beetroot.
@@juneshannon8074 Never heard of it much less tried it but my mouth is drooling just by the sound of it. I shall look it up and make some because I have a bunch of broots I pulled out a few days ago.
@@tamaracoba hi. If you find a good recipe please let me know. I have searched the internet to no avail, so I’ve decided to be guided by ingredients listed on jar of Beerenberg Balsamic Beetroot Relish.
I grow and can many organic beets every year. They are nutritious, also the leaves are one of the healthiest things to eat. I mix some leaves in with lettuce and other herbs and things for a garden salad. I discovered that the goldfinch birds like to eat beets leaves and stems. They don't do much damage and are nice to have around. I have a few that I see daily in my beet patch.
I've said it before but say it again, MARK, YOU ARE GREAT. Just want to day, I peeled three big beets last week and grated them, RAW, and took a large onion snf sliced it very thin, put some vinegar litle sugar and bit of water in a pot, boiled it till the sugar melted and took it off of the heat and let it cool down.
the amount of beet puns in this video was un-beet-leavable! ;P jk love your videos and down to earth approach to growing and moving toward self-sufficiency. Always love watching your videos. Keep up the awesome work!
Wow Im looking to get some beets going for through the winter where Im at in the pacific northwest of the US. Super informative & helpful video thanks & btw ur homestead looks like a really cool place, impressive!
Every time i put a specific vegetable in the search bar, you have a video for it. With the increase in food prices at the moment, it's time to be self sufficient.
Beautiful Beets! I'm kind of shocked, though, at all the tops you left on the ground behind you, although you fed a few to the birds. Is there no way to chop and freeze them for future soups?
I just watched a video from MiGardener and he said the same about spacing but i love that you mentioned the logic of natures intention when making clumping seeds. 👍
I detested beets until my lovely young bride of 38 years bought fresh, boiled them until almost cooked, and served with butter. Yummy! Now I freeze dry the 'left overs' for later. Thanks for the video and information. Trying to grow my own for the first time.
Lol Beetroot, funny I grow them for the tops. I use the waste from my guinea pigs cage . They are vegetarians so it is safe. Agreed why would I thin them ,hell no I'm not going to pull up and kill something I planted. I work graveyard been up all day had to watch one more of your videos , I'm beet.
I wish you guys all the best of luck! Keep up the peaceful protests, many here can learn from y'all instead of all this nonsense going on here and protest for the right thing. ~With love from America~ Aussies are pretty cool people.
RVS was that the Victorian one? Looks like the police have been told to act like thugs there, thus shutting up anyone who is not sucked into believing what the media tells us. Best of luck from SA.
I love beets as a salad. 1. You boil the beets, then let them cool down. You can use beets taken from your Borsch. 2. Shred them using the large size grater. 3. Add some salt, sugar and citric acid (you can use lemon, but citric acid gives better taste). 4. Enjoy. You can store it in the fridge for a few days.
I love this man and wish I was a neighbor to chat with him .. social distancing of course .. but heck yea. Thanks Mark for all the info and fun you provide us. Wish I could smash that Like Button a thousand times for ya. Cheers!
Most people 🙄 I know, here in Ky, love pickled beets. They are more like a relish served with bean soup or on a salad. I'm very happy to have a jar in my refrigerator all of the time.
I’m hoping to grow a lot of root crops to help punch holes in and add organic matter to my compacted soil Just waiting for the roster to allow me long enough to germinate seeds without them drying out.
I just wanted to compliment your editing. The way you show shots of performing various tasks as you describe concepts is incredible. No other UA-camr pulls this off like you do. We either have to watch them talk or work in silence. Your videos are rarely silent, and always active. Really great work mixing things up like this. It makes for a very enjoyable experience.
I like how you worded this compliment. It flows.
@@rickovsky980 I really appreciated the way you thought to compliment the complimenter.
100% agree! And he’s just the coolest .
@@lucyfyfe4563 I really like how you compliment the compliment of the complimenters’ complimenter. There are rarely any people being thoughtful like this 🙏🏼
@@29duygu24 Y'all are so sweet and make this world a better place - especially nowadays 😉
Funny story., many years ago I tried roasted beets, it was the first time I had tried beets any other way than pickled. I loved them so much I must have eaten 4 or 5 of them, they're delicious.
The next day of course I had forgotten that I had eaten them with dinner and while taking care if my "morning business" thought I had massive internal bleeding due to the color left in the porcelain.
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I have to try that sounds good
It's like a little potato only better
Nothing beets a new video from Mark.
That was a phunny pun.
Beet it punk
Beets don't Kale my vibe!
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You got to the root of it!
Good day Mark. You forgot one more tip: beets prefer alkaline soil and therefore really like ash. I just put ash from wood burning around beets and they grow bigger and better then without it.
Thanks for advice dear first time going to plant beets
I have wood ash. I'm going to go out and do that right now. Thank you!
Italians put all their wood ash in the soil during the winter. It is speculated that they were rated as the healthiest in the world because of it ....... but Zi really think it is because of the pasta and bread 😋
Mark did mention chicken manure which is also alkaline.
Thanks for the tip!
As a chef, my tip is to leave a few centimeters of roots and stems on your beets. This reduces colour bleed when you boil or bake them. Unless you want the colour for some other purpose of course, then chop them off.
Yes, I've always done that but a lot of grocers sell beets that have the tops completely cut off, so they can sell the tops for more. I find these are old and like boiling rocks.
I have fried, baked, roasted and boiled beets and have never ever had the color run out of them.
While this is true, if you let them callous over, they bleed a bit less I've found, but to be fair that's my personal very fresh produce that I also store for a bit. But I do like to keep the tips on, they're like fun little blood carrots! :)
@@jillhumphrys8073 Yeah I've never had a problem with it. In the last couple of years I've been experimenting with White Beetroot and
Burpees Golden Beetroot. They taste different from the red which I still grow as well sometimes I cook the three and have them on the same plate I also use the leaves in stir fries and salads and with cooked meals . I don't cook the leaves I prefer them..... natural. As I stated at the start I've never had any Beetroot bleed
Awesome harvest and tips
Stir fry the leaves with a chopped chilli, garlic and some chopped ginger. Turn down the heat and let steam for a couple of minutes. Food of the gods. Roast the beets on a bed of star anise, peppercorn fennel seed or whatever fragrant seeds you have, add some goats cheese once the beets are warm and drizzle over olive oil and balsamic; you need nothing else
I never have eaten the leaves, but will try this soon! I screenshot it. :-)
Here in NWArkansas, USA, we like a like potatoes fried with onion. I like to dice beets and pan fry them with onions, salt pepper, and rosemary! They come out glossy and sweet! I also cook carrots that way!
Cheers...ill give that a crack!
Man that sounds good
I'm 49 and ate my first roasted beetroot only two years ago. Had been missing out for over 40 years. Best way to eat them.
Andrew S me too, lol. I am still amazed that they taste so sweet when roasted.
I have some in my garden right now. I'm going to try roasted. Thank you.
June Shannon even just boiled they are sugary
Heidi, I peal them and then just roast them the same as potatoes.
Heidi, yes I do them in the oven at 180C. I don't season my roast veg while cooking, but that's personal taste.
Beetroot is loaded with the antioxidant lycopene, which is great for prostate health.
Make a chocolate cake the way you would a carrot cake, swapping the carrot with beetroot. YUMMY!
Borshch/borsht/barszcz is a great soup and there are more variants to it than a cat has hairs- with and without meat.
This sounds amazing! Would you mind linking me your source for effects of lycopene on the prostate?
And I hate to tell you this but if you are after lycopene in your food beets are the absolute worst. There are 0 μg of lycopene in 100g of beets aka. beets have no lycopene.
A chocolate cake with beetroot, but no chocolate?
I have seen marshmallows made with beetroot powder. So pretty and sounds delicious!
@@bartolhorvat8459 Look up beet roots on nutritionfact.org, it's a plant based website with links to all the studies
@@ludicrousone8706 Everything I've looked up doesn't mention Beetroot at all for Lycopenes
So, I came across this video because my son has been begging to grow beets and I wanted to do research, and now I think he's going to get his beet and carrot garden this year. Gotta love when kids want to get in the dirt 🥰
My favorite is roasted beet salad with goat cheese, aged balsamic vinegar and sautéed beet leaves
Dot2Trot's Low Carb Living What happened to your videos we are waiting for more videos😀
wow sounds good
Omg that sounds delicious!! For sure making this 😁
Sounds great! This guy is a such an inspiration!!
Can I pick a few beet leaves off when they are still small if I just take a couple from each plant? They get a bit too tough for my taste when they get large. Thanks!
Here in Ukraine it's one of the staple veggies, grown in massive amounts. It's really cheap and is used in traditional cuisine. The one way we usually don't eat is pickling, haha.
I'm, NWArkansas, USA, we commonly fry diced potatoes in a skillet with onions. Some people call them home fries or cottage fries. I discovered that frying beets this way with onions, salt and pepper are so good! Give it a try! Eat them as a side dish to just about anything, but burgers or any kind of BBQ are the best. Also, I make a roasted root vegetable dish at Christmas and beeta are included. Just dice, toss them in olive oil, salt pepper and rosemary and roast in a single layer for 45 minutes at 375 degrees.
I only cook it and that's about it. Works for me (greetings from a former Zhitomir area beet-eater :))
@@jillhumphrys8073 Thanks for the tip, I am going to try that! Overhere in the Netherlands I like to make a salad out of them. Boil the beets for about 40 min. and after that peel them en chop them into cubes. Then chop an onion into very little pieces add that to the beets and add some mayonaise pepper and salt to taste and some drops of worshestershire sauce. Very nice with a barbeque on a hot day!
In Romania we use them a lot too. We make Borscht like in the Ukraine.
Do you guys drink tuzemak in Ukraine? I am also growing sugar beets this year. :P
Us apartment dwellers look at your bountiful back yard and can only druel over all those awesome vegetables! For us it's pots on the patio!
No matter the video age, your bubbly personality always shines through! LOVE IT!
And honestly, thank you for staying positive; you are a light in my dark day many times a week.
Cheers Mate!
Yes indeed!
I grew up in a Mexican household eating beet like carrots.
"Mexican household" meaning, we chopped them up and added lemon, salt and chilly powder (or Valentina sauce) then ate it with a fork like a salad. We also added chopped up carrots, jicama, tomato, cucumber, mango, celery, cilantro, etc. Basically any fruit or veggie we wanted and found in the fridge. 🙊
Beets are a bit harder to cut than carrots or jicama but they're just as delicious 😋
I have never seen "pickled beets". The only beet product I've seen in Tijuana is canned beets just like canned corn. Basically cut and cooked in a slighty salty brine. Never saw them again🤣
I end up chuckling while watching. Dad jokes. Love 'em.
Charles Dowding always says that you can multi-sow beets in clusters and it works really well too!
So does Monty Don... and they do seem to be happy with friends.
Anybody else always looking at the subscriber count wishing to see 1M Subs?
I was just about to post look how close he is to 1 million!
When he get's extremely close we should all un-sub for a week or so just to tease him a bit. :D
@@Mrbfgray If you can co-ordinate like at least 10K people, otherwise there's no point But yeah, good one.
I realised I hadn’t subscribed thanks for the reminder!
He’s above 1 mil as of my viewing😎
I love your sense of humor and the way you grow keeping Mother Nature and common sense in mind.
This is the absolute best video on beets on UA-cam! I’ve been searching on and off for info for weeks and finally someone (you) talks about Everything! TY! Please keep teaching us! We are so grateful Sir!
Hey Mark! I grew beetroot for the first time last year and the leaves were so shiny. It was as if someone came into my garden overnight and polished them. Your viewers should be warned that the difference between store bought and home grown beetroot is immense. We did dine out on the young leaves for a long time before accessing the roots. The roots of freshly picked beetroot are rich if they are not pickled. Hardly anything to complain about because home grown is best and a large pot is all you need to start. This season I am trying an Italian style of Beetroot with concentric pink/red and white rings when you cut into them. I think they are called Pioggia. Cheers!
Chioggia * :)
@@gifgloria Thanks Gloria. Yes they were Chioggia, now that I look back into my garden diary and look at the seed packet :-)
@@craigmetcalfe1749 wow you have a garden diary, that seems like such a great idea! What things do you write in it and keep track of, if I may ask?
@@gifgloria Mostly it is a very long To Do List of things that I do in the garden. e.g. What and when and how many seeds sown, transplanted, seedlings or starts purchased and when they were planted. What fertilisers, compost or other additives I add to the soil to improve soil health. How well each vegetable or fruit went in a particular season. Harvest dates to anticipate but the most important of all is Observation which includes a weather forecast. If you just get out and observe your garden, you can discover so many things, flowers, beneficial insects, pests, diseases, relaxation and pride in what you have accomplished. I think it kept me sane during the pandemic and it helps overcome the fear of not knowing what works well in your garden.
@@craigmetcalfe1749 Thanks so much, Craig, for the great list! As a new gardener I realize that I should keep a very specific journal and have started. Your list adds a few things I hadn't gotten to because I'm not far enough through the growing process yet. Just germinating seeds and up-potting a few seedlings so far. Also, I'm doing some soil experiments and am keeping track of those. I have lots of learning ahead of and do appreciate those who are willing to share their journeys and recommendations. Thanks again! Have a bountiful harvest this year! Mary
We've just harvested some Beets, We fermented it with Garlic and Chilli's - turned out real nice ;)
Love the colour of beets Mark as much as the colour of blackberries, don't forget that store bought beets can be planted and they will keep growing if you keep chopping their tops off for salad, a better place to store them is in the ground I have found instead of my fridge when I buy them from the farmer's markets with their roots and tops in tack, then I just pick at my own leisure to use...
As Charles Dowding would say "they quite like growing together,they enjoy the company"
Great video! Greetings from Argentina!
You can't talk about cooking beets without mentioning Borscht, a delicious beet soup which is a traditional Ukrainian dish. Many other cultures have their own version of this soup. My grandma used to make the soup and added a cheap cut of meat, a great way to stretch your dollar. I also love the orange yellow variety of beets, cubed with a little butter and salt, placed on the bbq while you cook your meat; so delicious.
I enjoy beet root roasted but thus soup sounds delicious! I'll be looking for recipes and trying this in the fall. Nothing like a bowl of hearty soup as the weather turns cooler.
I dont want to sound ofensive but borscht is Russian traditional dish in all official cookbooks.Even name is Russian.
I love the leaves because one serving contains 50% of the daily required potassium.
Holy crap! I'll keep that in mind. I am growing a ton of beets this year.
Good day please can you give advice how to cook leaves? Just I can add chillies or any spicy spices, as my husband have colon problems thanks
@@theresasweetman204 steam it and once cooked add lemon oil salt
@@theresasweetman204 eat them raw like salad too!
@@theresasweetman204 I just sautéed them in a frying pan with olive oil and a bit of garlic. Add salt. Even Better than spinach or chard!
I always love Mark’s comments, like…..”ripper”. Mark thank you for what you do even on a bad day I can pull up your videos and they will make me smile.
We have two crops of beets a year - one in the early spring, and one in the fall. We will be harvesting our fall crop in a couple weeks. Can't have too many beets!
Any tips on how to cook them? I just have not found any way I like them yet.
Wow, good job..beetroot are pick out when their left are dry..that's beet are grow biggest.. 🌰🥕🌽
Love this beetroot fruits so amazing magically color and healthy vege fruits to eat
Beetroot really does benefit from a wicking bed. They can regulate their own water usage - they like the damp (ish) but not wet soil. I learned a lot from this though, particularly regarding planter the seeds as is.
The kids plucked one of our small (a bit bigger than a golf ball sized) beat, so I peeled the it, washed it, and thought, let me taste what it will be like fresh and raw like that, and remarkably, I never tasted a beatroot that juicy before and it also has a very plumb-like taste for that matter.
They are sooo good roasted. 1" chunks coated in olive oil with salt and pepper 350...? 30-45 mins till can pierce with a fork.
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Very nice sir.I am fond of kitchen gardening.I also sown beetroots , after one week ,i shall pick them out.Its very easy to grow spinach,beetroot ,radish ,fennugreek and carrots.Its really enjoying to have these veggiez in our kitchen garden.
Hats off you sir
I had my first successful crop of beetroot - which I pickled! Thank you for the tips, my next crop will be even better, I hope.
Yes it is we too.greetings from sri lanka.
I love the beet greens! I fry them with eggs, and add them with my other greens cooked in stock. I see all those greens on the ground and panic lol. Eat them too!
Same, but they have so many, plus all their other veggies.😊🌺🌻
@@melodytenisch6232 If I have too many, I blanch and freeze them for later. They are so healthy.
Also any that go too long you can leave them to harvest seeds if there is time.
Love this, brother. I've always wondered about acting against nature by assuming beets (and chard, etc.) are just silly for keeping groups of seeds together. I'm gonna hedge bets and do both. Thanks for sharing your wisdom, man.
I use the root, stems and leaves in my borscht.
Water, beet parts, onion, sugar, white vinegar, garnish with sour cream. Simple but _delicious!_ (If you like picked beets you'd like my borscht.)
I just discovered your channel last night and I'm so glad I did. I really enjoy your love for growing fresh veggies...you're like the Steve Irwin of gardening...your enthusiasm is contagious! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us.
So true. He is Steve Irvin of the Australian Homegrowing World
Love baked/roasted beets kinda like a sweeter sweet potato
I was just searching for videos on how to grow beets! You’re an amazing mind reader!!!
We love beets and grow them every year - several varieties. The gold beets are my favorite I think. 😍
I absolutely love beets and this was the first year I actually grew them. I planted a second crop of them a few weeks ago in my fall garden.
4:46 Is why I love your platform....amongst tons of other reasons.
6:58 Those snowpeas look AMAZING.
Thank you! I have always thought that beets enjoyed growing together. I never thin them and get a great harvest.
You can plant tiny beets again, and just water them in real well.
They just keep growing beautifully.
I have done so with tiny store bought beets, that looked semi dry and crummy, and they grew beautifully, most bolted and gave me seeds too. The beet roots were still edible, and much larger too.
Perfect-sized beets. Great advice re: spacing. I grow beets tight too, but using Charles Dowding's multi-sown plugs. Next year I'll experiment your method, sowing in place. Anyway, as usual, a well-produced video with thoughtful editing, That's what makes your channel one of my top-2 gardening channels. Sometimes you're #1, sometimes #2... but this vid has you at #1 spot again. Thanks for the hard work. And cheers.
Lol! I watch you and Charles D all the time. Two reasons: you both are teachers. He talks about no dig and do lots of comparison but because I live in the north coast of NSW - I have to watch you. Awesome content and editing
Thanks for the info. Beetroot is a favorite with me! Living in Taiwan and this is the first time in my adult life I've had a challenge growing vegetables!
Don't listen to youtube farmer advises if their hands don't look like that 0:19
I also saw that. Loved it.
The "looking and seeing nature through her eyes" line really got me. That is a very profound way of looking at gardening and a very smart observation/theory of a plants seed growth/dispersion method and the reasoning thereof.
I looooove beets! This is going to be my #1 crop next season. I guess I must be a beetnik! Lol following up with your humor
beet humor, just can't be beet.
Mom is Dutch, and the lowlands love their mayo. I grew up with grated beets w/ a dollop of mayo, really easy way to get your kids to eat them because of the neon red color. Boil 4 or 5 medium beets until a fork can prick through the skin, maybe an 1/8 in. deep. Cool, peel and grate into rinsed out pot (1 pot dish) and return to stove over low heat. Mix in about (I don't measure, too lazy) 2 Tbsp cider vinegar and sugar and mix until sugar is dissolved. Plate and add a bit of mayo and mix.
You bring a lot of joy to my life, thank you for posting your videos!
Your youtube channel is Godsent. I cannot have a regular garden as a traveling construction worker and watching you and daydreaming is my favorite pastime. Thank you so much for making high quality common sense content without unnecessary hype and outstanding editing. God bless you, my good man.
When you peel beets for eating use their peels to fertilize tomatoes. Even water from cooking beets.
Thanks for the tip. I'd do just that.
You must preserve them and don’t give them all away. A great preserving group on Facebook is Fowlers Vacola users. It’s best for Aussies.
When I cook the beets, I wash them really good and the water I use for my drinking daily instead of just throwing it or for my plants/vegetables, it’s replenish and hydrate ur body, the same when I boil my corn, I drink the water from boiled corn, I removed the husk of course or remove the layers that is dirty. It’s sweet and good for you. 😇👍👍
Thanks 😊
I love love beetroot! I never have enough beetroot leaves though as I love to add them to my daily salads as they‘re so yummy and nutritious. I eat low carb so the leaves are more important than the roots to me although I ferment the roots to lower the carbs in the roots so that I can enjoy them occasionally...
Italians eat a high carb diet, they are thin, health and live the longest...... so why they say to eat low carb diets? Because they want you to have low energy snd be sick........ oh but I avoid gluten / carbs and I feel better. ...... NO NO. You avoid junk you buy in the supermarket (which is imitation of real food) and therefore feel better. The body’s easiest food to process into energy is a carb. For Everything else it needs to use complicated system to get the glucose it needs.
I've only just found this amazing human on UA-cam. Thank you Mark for your tips about being self sufficient.
I really enjoy Borscht soup with lashings of sour cream. Give it a go, I reckon you’d love it!
Sounds Romanian or Hungarian
Russian
Ukrainian origins, but very popular in Russia
Can you share some of the different beet recipes you talk about in the beginning of this video?
Ive never tried roasted beets but I am for sure this year. Thanks for showing me that! You always teach me loads on your videos. I watch them over and over again
Roasted beets with a sprinkling of salt are delicious.
@@openmind5973 roast beets, parsnip, carrots, onion, garlic with drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper. Sometimes I mix in white yams. Awesome dish!
I love the way you plant your beets I have learned a lot and the right way.thanks for sharing
You can also ferment in a brine for making kvass. Delicious to drink and the roots taste great. Much less sour than pickled beets, with a more complex flavor. Extremely healthy and full of enzymes
Beet kvass is fantastic, is often used as a tonic, and is easy to make. Hmm, have some in the fridge, think I'll head over there.
This guy is the real deal. He loves what he does and he spreads the joy and therapy of gardening across the world. Please like and subscribe, there are too many popular gardening channels that are full of hype, poor advice and product placement. Please support this guy, people need to see this. Also, as a Russian, I consume tons of beets and what he says about the flavor is true. Try a roasted beet or a boiled and cooled down beet in your veggie salad. It is a superfood.
Just a tip for future reference, may help you put less effort into the beets however achieve same result. The size of your raised beds are enough to sustain beets for 3/4/5 seasons. They don’t need to be as wet as you’re seeming to keep them, understand the top inch dry doesn’t mean the whole raised bed isn’t moist the next 3 foot down, especially if you’ve added material to hold moisture. Overwatering will however cause you to need to add more amendments/nutrients within the next year or so as you’ll wash it all down through the raised bed, leaving only the drained sandy loamy ish bits of sand/dirt.
So tip, understand what moisture is, then you won’t have the issue of needing to water BEETS everyday, as well as re amending your soil for BEETS, so often. My point here is that you’re growing BEETS, one of the easiest things to grow, simplify it a bit, it WILL actually save you time and effort with this
I love to grow the cylinder long beets instead of the round ones. Need less space and still can give a big crop and never had them turn woody.
There is more than a few varieties. One I got, Chicagoga (probably not spelled right) or the Candy-Cane as one could call it, had red and white stripes that could liven up a salad - but you need to serve it raw for the effect to really work. Another, a yellow variety, is useful to keep the "red" juice from coloring everything else, as its juice isn't as obvious. Then another is more cylindrical than ball-shaped. Still waiting on them, as, based on a few that the deer/rabbits have pulled, they're still small. Same with the carrots, based upon a few I accidentally pulled while weeding, but they were tasty.
try a motion detector with a light bulb on one side, and a radio plugged into the other; when a deer gets close, the light and radio come on at the same time. the deer will split, i guarantee it! talk radio is best, i put the radio in a bucket; strap it in, and place it upside down on a pole of some sort.
@@dougreynolds2813 Would be useful, but my garden is like 100+ yards from my place, and the neighbor on my one side might not like hearing a radio playing - got enough issues with them, we just try to keep things civil.
Last summer in Germany it was very dry again. The areas where the beets grow tight in cluster works much better then in thin rows.
They needed less water and grow much healthier and bigger. I harvested the every second beet, so that the remaining ones had the oprtunity to grow bigger without deformation.
Almost to 1,000,000 subs! I like watching your videos. Keep up the awesome work!
Oh wow! I didnt realize that! Go Mark!
Let's all start to temp. un-sub when he get's with in 5k just to mess with him a bit before re-subbing a couple weeks later to blast him thru 1M. :D
When you pull beet from ground and take off the leaves, you should leave about 2 inches of leaf stem from the beetroot so when you cook the beet all the color stays in the beetroot. You will still have red bleed from the beetroot, but not as bad.
I love that Australians put pickle beets and fried eggs in hamburgers. If I go to Mt Magnet I always get a deluxe burger. Australian also call beets beetroot.
Ezzy E yes we Aussies don’t call it a hamburger without egg and beetroot. Just got to have that red juice running up the arms, lol.
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I second that! That’s why it’s called an Aussie burger at Hungry Jacks. It’s got beetroot in it.
@@tamaracoba have you tried Beerenberg Beetroot Relish? It’s to die for. I’m going to try to make some myself this summer.
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Never heard of it much less tried it but my mouth is drooling just by the sound of it. I shall look it up and make some because I have a bunch of broots I pulled out a few days ago.
@@tamaracoba hi. If you find a good recipe please let me know. I have searched the internet to no avail, so I’ve decided to be guided by ingredients listed on jar of Beerenberg Balsamic Beetroot Relish.
I grow and can many organic beets every year. They are nutritious, also the leaves are one of the healthiest things to eat. I mix some leaves in with lettuce and other herbs and things for a garden salad. I discovered that the goldfinch birds like to eat beets leaves and stems. They don't do much damage and are nice to have around. I have a few that I see daily in my beet patch.
I experimented with a small garden this year. I had 3 beets. They went to seed. I collected them. The flowers were so pretty.
I've said it before but say it again, MARK, YOU ARE GREAT. Just want to day, I peeled three big beets last week and grated them, RAW, and took a large onion snf sliced it very thin, put some vinegar litle sugar and bit of water in a pot, boiled it till the sugar melted and took it off of the heat and let it cool down.
Nice and Great beetips..Loving the harvest outta Kenya.
Its 6:52 over here in Tobago West indies. A great start for me!
Yes it is 😊
the amount of beet puns in this video was un-beet-leavable! ;P
jk love your videos and down to earth approach to growing and moving toward self-sufficiency. Always love watching your videos. Keep up the awesome work!
Unbeatable!
😂 I loved those too
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Mine were not doing too well last year & an old bloke down the road said to give them a little boron . It worked !!
Have just spent all evening making pickled beetroot. Was wondering if I should try grow them. Well, this looks easy enough.
Best to eat freshly grated when small, add some lemon juice, jum
My wife’s favourite vegetable. We roast a lot of them. We love your videos Mark.
Perfect timing now I can hold off on planting my seeds until the weather cools off a bit thanks for the tips
Wow Im looking to get some beets going for through the winter where Im at in the pacific northwest of the US. Super informative & helpful video thanks & btw ur homestead looks like a really cool place, impressive!
Every time i put a specific vegetable in the search bar, you have a video for it. With the increase in food prices at the moment, it's time to be self sufficient.
Beautiful Beets! I'm kind of shocked, though, at all the tops you left on the ground behind you, although you fed a few to the birds. Is there no way to chop and freeze them for future soups?
I just watched a video from MiGardener and he said the same about spacing but i love that you mentioned the logic of natures intention when making clumping seeds. 👍
I love your videos brother!
Great information presented perfectly.
Thanks!
Peace and love
I detested beets until my lovely young bride of 38 years bought fresh, boiled them until almost cooked, and served with butter. Yummy! Now I freeze dry the 'left overs' for later. Thanks for the video and information. Trying to grow my own for the first time.
I LOVE beets, and also really loved the concept of nature choosing to produce beet seeds in clusters. Thought-inspiring!
Lol Beetroot, funny I grow them for the tops. I use the waste from my guinea pigs cage . They are vegetarians so it is safe. Agreed why would I thin them ,hell no I'm not going to pull up and kill something I planted. I work graveyard been up all day had to watch one more of your videos , I'm beet.
Nice beets! Thanks to all Australians who walked for our freedom from corruption, today. Well done, Australia! Proud moment to be Australian. 🌏
I wish you guys all the best of luck! Keep up the peaceful protests, many here can learn from y'all instead of all this nonsense going on here and protest for the right thing.
~With love from America~
Aussies are pretty cool people.
RVS, thank you for the news.
Been very anxious to hear anything!
It's becoming more and more difficult to trust or believe anything or anyone.
RVS was that the Victorian one? Looks like the police have been told to act like thugs there, thus shutting up anyone who is not sucked into believing what the media tells us. Best of luck from SA.
Coon hound I secondyour words. Stop The Crime.net is a top website and Utube channel.
Mark, magic video, my partner and I have only recently started planting beetroot and are really enjoying the beets of our labor, cheers😂
I love beets as a salad.
1. You boil the beets, then let them cool down. You can use beets taken from your Borsch.
2. Shred them using the large size grater.
3. Add some salt, sugar and citric acid (you can use lemon, but citric acid gives better taste).
4. Enjoy. You can store it in the fridge for a few days.
Sauteed beet leaves are so yummy.
How many people cook it
I love this man and wish I was a neighbor to chat with him .. social distancing of course .. but heck yea. Thanks Mark for all the info and fun you provide us. Wish I could smash that Like Button a thousand times for ya. Cheers!
You are losing weight, youre looking great! Thanks for the video, I recently became interested in growing beets.
Most people 🙄 I know, here in Ky, love pickled beets. They are more like a relish served with bean soup or on a salad. I'm very happy to have a jar in my refrigerator all of the time.
I grew really nice beets in some heavy soil, they started growing above the ground!
I must try that.
Yes that's what they do, other root crops too sometimes.
I’m hoping to grow a lot of root crops to help punch holes in and add organic matter to my compacted soil
Just waiting for the roster to allow me long enough to germinate seeds without them drying out.
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