Beets - Gourmet Mix (Chioggia Red & Detroit Yellow) - This delicious gourmet mix of heirloom beets can be used from root to greens. The Chioggia Red beets boast uniquely beautiful flesh with alternating red and white concentric rings that resemble a bull’s-eye. A feast for the eyes; wonderful for fresh eating and pickling. Retains markings if baked whole and sliced just before serving. Detroit Yellow Beets round orange roots turn golden yellow when cooked, does not bleed, roots grow fast, retains sweet flavor when quite large, excellent for pickles, very tender and mild.50-55 days. Packet includes approximately 100 seeds

• Sow outdoors as soon as soil can be worked in spring.
• Germinates in 5-7 days
• Plant 1/2" deep and 2" apart

Green Thumb Tip: Sow seeds outdoors as soon as soil can be worked in spring. Seeds will germinate in 5-10 days. Can be planted at two-week intervals for continuous harvests. All parts of the beet plant are edible.