Beet Seed - Grow your own - Part 1

Описание: How to grow your own beet seed in zone 5, from beets that you saved over the winter. Part 1 talks about root storage, and how to plant the beets to get the best results. Happy gardening!

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Transcipt: Greetings, my name is Hank and I have not paid for seed at the store for almost 10 years because I grow my own. It's April 3rd, 2016. Springtime here in zone 5 in North America, and it's time to check the cellar for last year's beets, so that I can replant them and grow seed. I would have just left the beets in the ground
from the previous summer had I been in a warmer climate. But here in zone 5, the winter has a chance of reaching nighttime temperatures of 20 degrees below zero Fahrenheit or even lower. This turns beets to mush; so to be safe, I store them in a cellar. You don't have to have a cellar; I have stored beets in a simple hole here in the ground, dug with a shovel. The hole just needs to be more than three feet deep and covered. Here in zone 5, anything less than three feet deep usually dies, even in my cellar.
So last year I kept my beets in the same bag as the carrots I grew, and looks like they did well together.
Don't be tempted to grow seed with beets from the store, those are hybrid beets and would not likely produce good seed. All of my beets are from heirloom seeds, and are open pollinated. A person should use at least 12 beets for open pollination. Anything fewer than 12 could lead to inbreeding and have poor results; so the more the better.
I kept my beets in a bird feed bag and folded the top closed to regulate moisture, but most any animal feed bag works fine for this. If I leave my beets exposed in the cellar they get dry through the winter, and some of them die.
So to get started, I usually hoe a small trench for the beets, water
the trench to soften the ground, and plunge the beets into the wet soil, root down. Since beets are wind pollinated, you should plant them in two or more rows, next to each other, to increase pollination, no matter which way the wind blows. Then I cover the beets with dirt and water them well. If your soil has good drainage, then you should water them every day.
This has been part 1 of how to grow beet seed. Please stay tuned for part 2 - I will post a link to that video in the info section of this video, once it has finished. Thanks for watching and happy gardening!

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