Topic: Beetroot 'Burpee's Golden'

[Flighty]

Harvested this morning

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cooked this afternoon

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just eaten.  Very tasty!

[saddad]

Look great... do they bleed like red varieties?  :-\

[Flighty]

Saddad thanks!  No they don't.  The foliage is also edible, and can be steamed, but I didn't try that this time.

[PurpleHeather]

Yes, we did have a plot holder who got some 'white beetroot' a few years ago.

We have a tasting day when every one gets together and tries what others have grown

They tasted exactly the same as the bog standard red ones but were perfectly clean. Every one was impressed but then found that the cost of the seeds was.....well ........a lot more .......an awful lot more than the bog standard bolthardy.

The novelty seemed to die at that point.

[Theplotthickens]

Flighty, did you think the taste was as strong as "regular" red beets ?

I tried to get some for myself, as I don`t like beetroot as such, however they are supposed to be a milder flavour than the red type.
As I couldn`t get some I have managed to get "Yellow Cylindrical" which appears to be a longer tubular type and the first sowing are getting to thunb thickness and I feel a taste session coming on.

[Flighty]

PurpleHeather these were more expensive but I notice that there is a white one Albina Ice that is the same price as Boltardy. I grow mostly traditional vegetable varieties but do like to try a few unusual ones,  even if they cost more.

Theplotthickens it's got a sweet taste and a tender texture which I like. It'll be interesting to see what you think of your Yellow Cylindrical ones.

[PurpleHeather]

PurpleHeather these were more expensive but I notice that there is a white one Albina Ice that is the same price as Boltardy. I grow mostly traditional vegetable varieties but do like to try a few unusual ones,  even if they cost more.

I will certainly look out for them in netto, aldi and lidl. I love cheese and beetroot with salad cream butties but am a messy eater and nearly always manage to get a piece of beetroot out of the sandwich on to what ever I am wearing.

Trying to grow something 'new' is  one of my great joys too. Shortage of space is limiting.

[Flighty]

Purple Heather it's worth looking out for unusual seeds on here as well, what with seed swops etc.
Butties like that take me back as my mum always moaned about the state I got myself in!
Shortage of space is the gardeners' eternal problem!