hey everyone welcome back to digging deeper this week
uh we're talking about beets beautiful beets how to grow them
and i'll be sharing you my best tricks about how to grow beets that are really rocking at farmers
beets in the market garden is one of these crops that can really make a killing if you
if you grow nice bunches of beets that have beautiful leaves you can really attract
a lot of people at farmers market and that's one of our signature crop here at the farm
and there's a few tricks that we have to grow really great beets and to make
sure that we don't have leafy spots and the first trick is that we transplant our beets
so it's more work to put into the ground but transplanting the beet gives us three big
advantage the first one is that we'll have perfect density on the bed so there's not going to be any
holes and the spacing is going to be just ideal so that the beets grow faster and they'll have
uniformity between each of them which in the end makes a difference to make really good bunches
but it also plays with the fact that we have just enough ventilation for good airflow
which really helps with the leafy spot problems this sakos pejos
that we say in french which otherwise can be really really problematic and when i visit farms
definitely their beets are often really plagued by that disease there's going to be a crop note
on the spacing that we use here on the farm and the cultivars that we use
to counter uh sarcosphorus leafy spots so you can check that out you can download it on the link
so the second trick is really getting the right spacing the spacing that we have for the beats
on the farm is really designed for two things first of all we want to have better density so
that we're optimizing space in the market garden but we're also considering uh proper air flow so
the spacing on the row needs to be leaves needs to leave enough space and cultivating is also
important because that's how we make sure that you know there's really good air flow between the beds
and so it's one crop that we want to make sure that we're keeping really clean
and cultivating once or twice depending on the time of the timing really does the job
and i would say that lastly one trick that we have in our toolbox and that we use
is to systematically spray boron on the beats and that also will help
not only have fewer problems with leafy spots but just to make sure that we have really really
nice beats and timing is really critical you need to apply that boron at the right timing
and after that you're on your way to really beautiful harvest of these amazing beets and again
you'll have to take it for me if you're pulling off growing really nice beets with their with
their tops on you can get top dollar at farmer's market you'll attract a lot of clients and take
it for me it's definitely one of these crops that you want to learn how to really be successful at
so that's it for beats i've shared some tips and don't forget there's a crop note that you can
download all the information is on the link below uh i'd like to hear if you have problems with
sarcospharoles and how you've dealt with it in the past you know sharing uh in this forum here
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i hope you guys are doing well i hope things are growing on the farm
i hope uh making sales and just plain happy so i'm i'm good and i'll see you next week j i'm out