The pH of your soil is optimal for growing beets between 6.0 and 7.5. Try not to stray too far out of that range if possible. Also avoid heavy cultivation around your beets. It can disturb the fine hairlike roots extending out from the main beetroot. Pull weeds carefully, but avoid dist...
Note:A single beetroot seed is a cluster of two to four other seeds. Therefore, thinning your four-inch-tall green seedlings to three or four inches apart allows the remaining roots to grow to a healthy size. Alternatively, you can opt for “monogerm” beetroot varieties that produce one se...
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you should first give them a small project, like a plant to grow. If your child shows interest in gardening, you can gradually assign them big projects like a plot to grow different seeds or a couple of
Simply sow them into the plugs, then grow them until it’s time to plant them, though they may need transplanting into bigger plugs or pots if the roots fill their plugs before it’s time to plant them outside. Two or more seeds are usually sown per plug, and then the germinated ...
It also helps us grow, metabolizes nutrients, and aids the nervous system – and it plays a big role in liver health. Potassium deficiency can cause metabolic balance and cellular function to go haywire, leading to a myriad of metabolic disorders that could ultimately contribute to liver disease...
your kids to eat them, you haven’t actually taught them to develop healthy eating habits. Of course, if you have a great recipe that includes beetroot in a chocolate cake, for example, go ahead and use it. Just be upfront about the ingredients and what they add to the final product....
We would gaze along the pews past our mother, past all the other perfectly presentable women like the ones we girls would grow up to be, and who paled (and still do) into the faded green baize carpet in comparison to Marie Spain. If she happened to be hovering in her grotto on the ...
in children, increased food sensitivities, and even rashes and eczema, it's more and more important to know how to make your own homemade food coloring. (I wrote a whoooooole lot about that in my post about The Fake Food You Don't Know You're Eating.) Who wants to deal with that?
I’ve adapted this recipe for 2 adults and 2 young children, because that’s what I serve – If it makes too much for a romantic dinner for two, save the hearts you mangled and the parts you trimmed off the beetroot, grate or slice thin, mix with the dressing, and store in the fr...