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    Hi All,

    Have pulled up today a white beetroot, courtesy of the free Boltardy seeds from GYO mag. earlier in the year. Anyone else had some white beetroot? is it unusuall?
    ....tasted alright though!!
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  • #2
    there was a thread last week or so about one: http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...oot_35999.html
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      I think my seeds were the Grow Your Own ones too thinking about it - must have had some rogue bed hoppers! When I posted Albino Beetroot? I had absolutely no idea such a thing existed - feels a bit like a B.O.G.O.F bargain now - so result. If any tecchie wants to delete my post, cos white beetroot is probably getting boring now!
      'May your cattle never wander and your crops never fail'

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      • #4
        yes have just checked my free seeds that i planted this year and i have 6 white beetroot in the row. There great easy to handle and no staining when cooked. Think i'll buy these in future.

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        • #5
          I have a whole line of them nicely growing....looking forward to No stained clothes when peeling them

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          • #6
            Do they still taste the same.............?I binned one last year cos I thought there was something wrong with it....
            S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
            a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

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            • #7
              I grow white beetroot from reelseeds, as they say, the leaves do get sometimes used as a spinach and the roots taste exactly the same as the red ones.
              We have them with a normal meal, boiled and then skinned, easy! No mess and no red poo in nappies to worry about next day

              I also grow red beetroot to use in salads, because I like the colours, but for normal stuff, white is much preferred here.

              Btw, my OH made the observation the other day, that white beetroot taste pretty similar to sweet carrots and they are alot easier to grow and clean for the kitchen (well easier than my carrots anyway, which I can hardly ever grow to a good shape).
              Last edited by womble; 05-08-2010, 07:00 AM.
              "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

              Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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              • #8
                I've grown yellow but never white...think I'll be putting those on my shopping list for next year!
                "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                Location....Normandy France

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by womble View Post
                  I also grow red beetroot to use in salads, because I like the colours, but for normal stuff, white is much preferred here.
                  Just out of curiosity, what is normal stuff for beetroots to you? Only ask cos 90% of ours is used either fresh in salads or pickled (again, usually with salads) and we hardly use any of it as, say, a roasted veg.

                  Have grown the stripey stuff in the past and decided this year that I preferred the normal red stuff as it looks prettier. Not grown the white or yellow though.

                  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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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Alison View Post
                    Just out of curiosity, what is normal stuff for beetroots to you? Only ask cos 90% of ours is used either fresh in salads or pickled (again, usually with salads) and we hardly use any of it as, say, a roasted veg.
                    Normal stuff? Well, we just boil it for a while in the skins, scrape the skins off and eat with a meal. A couple of days ago we had it with new potatoes, courgettes fried in garlic and sausage.
                    A day before that, potatoes, beans and beetroot..... and sausage, I like sausages

                    Just use it like any other vegetable. Roasting it is OK, but only if we are roasting something else, so boiling works very well for us.
                    "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

                    Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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                    • #11
                      Yup I pulled a white one from my row this week, not sure where the seeds came from but were bolthardy
                      Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
                      and ends with backache

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