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    Bolting beetroot

    My largest beetroot, about the size of a tennis ball, is bolting. Books say you don't want them to bolt, and I assume this is because bolting takes energy away from root formation. So, if it is a decent size, should it be harvested ASAP, due perhaps to flowering sucking out energy from the root, or can it be left? It is a yellow variety incidentally. I am told that in Ukraine, they feed the yellow ones to pigs.
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    My Bolhardy bolt too.

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      Originally posted by ButternutSquash View Post
      My largest beetroot, about the size of a tennis ball, is bolting. Books say you don't want them to bolt, and I assume this is because bolting takes energy away from root formation. So, if it is a decent size, should it be harvested ASAP, due perhaps to flowering sucking out energy from the root, or can it be left? It is a yellow variety incidentally. I am told that in Ukraine, they feed the yellow ones to pigs.
      They tend to woody when they bolt so tough to eat. Personally I pick them when they're a bit smaller than that.

      Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

      Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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      • #4
        The only beetroot I seem to be able to grow without bolting is Pablo. I tend to lift mine when bigger than a golf ball but smaller than a tennis ball. Any thing that grows bigger tends to get roasted

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        • #5
          The title sounds like one of those exclamations from the old, old Batman series "Bolting Beetroot Batman"!

          I'm with Alison, once bolted the roots go all woody and not nice.

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          • #6
            Thanks all. Roast beetroot for dinner tomorrow.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Marb67 View Post
              My Bolhardy bolt too.
              Try Bolthardy instead.

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              • #8
                I've grown Kestrel F1 and they are bolting too. This is happening before they have developed to a pullable size. Should you nip off the shoot that is bolting?

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