Grown primarily for striking dark red-purple leaves that provide incredible contrast in salad mixes and also have a tender, sweet flavor. Eliot Coleman’s choice for a red leaf in winter salad mixes. Roots are also tasty and tender when harvested early. Tolerant to heat and cool temps. Color intensifies as plants mature. Great variety for baby beets!

1/16 ounce, ~ 80 seeds, Sows ~ 15’

Tender, sweet flavor. Roots are also tasty and tender when harvested early. 35 days baby, 50 beets

Uniform, 3" globe roots are sweet and smooth. Detroit Dark Red is an excellent, high-quality storage variety and a standard type for commercial-scale production. Dark green leaves streaked with crimson veins can also be harvested for salad or braising.

1/16 ounce, ~ 80 seeds, Sows ~ 15’

These perfectly round blood-red roots are excellent, high-quality storage variety that has been around since 1892. Leaves are 50 days

One of my favorite garden vegetables to grow and eat. I've grown these in every weather conditiona dn picked them early and late and they tast good at any time of the year. they aren't so prone to getting pulpy like other beets and they can live through droughts, heat, floods and cold.

Attractive arching tops make perfect early beet greens and also bunch nicely for bunching beets. Roots are slightly flattened and mature earlier than any other variety.

1/16 ounce, ~ 80 seeds, Sows ~ 15’

Tall vigorous green tops with maroon veins. Quick emergence in cold soils and attractive tops make this a great early season variety for greens as well as 3" dark red globes. 20 days greens, 45 beets