As with other veggies, beets grow best in a well-draining and rich potting mix that's intended for edible plants. Although it ...

If your garden space is limited, you'll be happy to learn that beets are one of the veggies that can successfully grow in a ...

When it comes to patio plants, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers are popular picks. But don't shy away from root vegetables. Beets (Beta vulgaris) are often overlooked. Besides their deep jewel-tone ...

Beets are a versatile, tasty and nutritious root vegetable. Apparently, like cilantro, some people have a strong aversion to beets. You can eat both the root and greens of the beet. Beets are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hand holding a large beet root - Maria mnogomama/Shutterstock If you're growing beets, chances are you appreciate efficiency and ...

Beets are commonly grown for their bulbous roots, but their tops can also be harvested for greens, and they are an excellent source of Vitamin A as well as calcium. Beet juice is sometimes used in ...

This week, in our unheated greenhouse, we seeded heirloom beets into living soil blocks set in trays. We also planted optimism that the concrete floor, buckets of rainwater and humidity domes will ...

Some of my favorite cool-season crops are beets, spinach and Swiss chard. They all belong to the same plant family, Amaranthaceae, so they have the same cultural needs and potential insect problems.

Beets (Beta vulgaris) are one of those vegetables ideally suited to the late-summer garden for harvesting in the fall. While we plant them now in August to mature before the first frost (somewhere ...