This Is How to Grow, Sell & Harvest Beets Like a Pro!

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Beets are not only delicious and nutritious but also a lucrative addition to your farming endeavors! In this video, Curtis Stone shares the secrets to successful beet cultivation and harvesting. Watch now and discover the key to growing, selling, and reaping the rewards of this versatile root vegetable!
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About Curtis Stone:
Curtis is one of the world’s most highly sought-after small farming educators. His book, The Urban Farmer, offers a new way to think about farming𑁋 one where quality of life and profitability coexist. Today, Curtis spends most of his time building his 40-acre off-grid homestead in British Columbia. He leverages his relationships with other experts to bring diverse content into the homes of gardeners and aspiring small farmers from around the world. Learn more at FromTheField.TV.
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[@tyrowolfe3034]

I really appreciate these videos, where you highlight a crop and cover the basics of growing, harvesting, and selling. I wish they were a bit more detailed, and I hope you would feel comfortable making a really detailed series in the future on this type of thing :) Thank you so much for taking the time to share you knowledge!

[@scotthart2833]

What you are doing is good for any person to live a more sustainable life. This advice is usable by anyone, even an engineer who enjoys gardening! (me)

[@scotthart2833]

Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.

[@horsingaround5353]

Really like this style of video. Layed bach educational. Keep up the good work.

[@MicroUrb]

Its amazing how Curtis you guide students on stuff that I have had to figure out on my own and sometimes I can guess how you are about to answer a question based on my own personal experience with my business. I realize that if people are not actually doing this, they will not get what your saying like those who are already doing it. To be clear, I still have a lot to learn and these videos are super helpful, but I think you get me Curtis.

[@MichaelJones-ti9fx]

Thank you for the information.

[@AlexandeRSciswoR]

Dwight Schrute would be proud.

[@LILTRadio]

So much information in one video!

[@davidoyama9753]

Great video Curtis ! Thanks !

[@adrianorosso5314]

The greens is where the nutrition is. Don't throw them away!

[@offgridcurtisstone]

+Adriano Rosso come and get them. They are all yours.

[@chrisshepherd8708]

What about using the beet greens for salads? Will keeping the green top on the beets take the sweetness off the beets like carrots?

[@mkfarm3974]

Why use the paperpot in the fall, due to the expense of the trays it wouldn't be worthwhile, I can see in the spring to get a jump on the season. Also how long does it take for the chain to disappear. I store my beets and carrots until April from a October harvest, I use gaylord boxes lined with plastic drop cloth with holes drilled in them and never loose hardly any. Keep up the good work

[@offgridcurtisstone]

It's a small cost for an early crop and direct seeding beets is far from perfect.

[@spincitiesfarm7862]

more successions, less time on the field. cutting a few weeks off the beginning of every rotation means you can put in an additional one or two rotations of things throughout the season.

[@mio.giardino]

I’m thinking if you have a solid customer then having an added cost of paper pots is more of an insurance policy to ensure you can deliver early in the spring & fall. Like mentioned, you can shave time in ground & use it to get an extra crop in that space. Great point MK 👍🏼

[@nathanrogers8713]

The paper pot would allow a shorter transplant to harvest time allowing you to get additional rotations into a bed. Instead of 3 or 4 crops in a bed in a year, you could get 4 or 5 since you are harvesting sooner after planting.

[@MicahJohns]

can beets be used to make veggie burgers? I mean, i’m sure they can, but are they commonly used for that?

[@JohnMartinez-sm1sk]

Great video

[@comicnerd375]

Why my mans in the group got the raccoon fur hat on though lmao

[@petemckelvey2251]

haha

[@johnjanedoe1676]

Is that Doug from Off Grid with Doug & Stacy?! lol

[@jenniferpresnell9558]

Is that Casey and Tori from Honeytree farm?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Yes. They were at this workshop.

[@andyriegel8440]

Do onions get elongated like the beets in the paperpot transplanter

[@TheGaryGuilfoyle]

Beats my beets

[@jimclaire7996]

Good information, great video.

[@thomasrobson6370]

good info.

[@chrisshepherd8708]

Is there a way one could use the paper pot planter to use to harvest?

[@crisd117]

Throwing out those beets greens 😭

[@ptrain9020]

how would you prolong the tops of carrots, or beets if you had to sit on them for a while? Would you come in and spray the greens down, or store the crops in some kind of container with water in order to keep the greens fresh?

[@marshwetland3808]

Tough question. I find neither of them keep well. Why do you need to store them? They are going to be at their best when you first pick them. For myself, when I have a ton of beet greens, I blanch and freeze them.

[@flocit]

Which seed plate do you use with your earthway for Beets? thanks

[@JohnnyAfghanseed]

If you aren't harvesting all the beets at once in a situation like that would a wagon with the front and back tires each spaced 30 inches apart be more efficient since you could pull it behind you while harvesting? maybe one where you could adjust the height so it's high enough off the crops?

[@spincitiesfarm7862]

Been wanting something like that. something that hooks to my belt and pulls along with me.

[@JohnnyAfghanseed]

that'd be smart, i'm probably not the first to think of using a wagon but it just came to mind. i guess the whole taking it out and putting it back in takes time too, but it might be alright. could take a while to pay for itself but than it also saves having to bend over more too which could be more valuable

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Sure. Whatever works man.

[@marshwetland3808]

Like two canoe carts with a platform between them. IE bicycle wheels.

[@FidelHimself]

Anyone know which zone this is?

[@Jeffykins71]

I'm just not sure about this particular crop for the PP transplanter. What would you say is more efficient for Beets... the paper pot transplanter or the direct seeding method? (germination, yield, quality). Thanks Curtis.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Paper Pot for sure. It's incredible because you're reducing your time in the round by at least 30 days, and you're getting far better germination.

[@Jeffykins71]

wow.. That is a huge advantage..... thanks for clearing that up.

[@califarmeradams4546]

Hello I have 26 inch beds already made and will be too much work to change them to 30 inches. Will this be a problem?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Not if you're happy with it.

[@Allocated_Brain]

ok

[@Allocated_Brain]

What about growing unpopular crops that have a low yield and fetch a low price. Alongside that this unspecified crop takes at least 90 dtm and it can only be harvested two weeks per annum? Are there any crops which meet all these criteria? Will anyone buy my sarcasm?

[@SpartionTV]

Allocated Brain I will buy your sarcasm for precisely $3.99.

[@nikkibruce9180]

When are you coming back to TN in 2018??

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Same week in October as this one.

[@nikkibruce9180]

Urban Farmer Curtis Stone can you give any kind of price and specific dates so that we can plan now??

[@jerrysnelling8665]

Does anyone know what kind of sprinkler head that is in the video?

[@wildrangeringreen]

senniger wobbler with what looks like the low angle heads

[@pablopastor508]

sugar beets = ethanol

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Red ace and golden. Not sugar beets.

[@mohamedabdi2216]

$5.00/lb for beet root?

[@timothkeyyprice]

Why are you allowing your belly to grow? Maybe lose 20 lbs. for better health.

[@corey4413]

Timothy Price A fat farmer is one who is good at his job.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Keep those kind of comments for People and Us magazine gossip circles. We are here to talk about farming and relevant content. Not a person's body image. Keep it clean and tasteful otherwise I will block you with no mercy ;) First warning.