Beetroot Seeds

Bright, fun vegetable seed markers.

Part of the new 'Home Farm' range, these bright and fun garden seed markers cover many of the common vegetable garden plants. They are hand carved from cedar and individually painted with water based paints.

Smooth, dark red skin and tender flesh. Produces baby beets or full sized beetroots. Ideal for baking, pickling, or grating raw into salads.

Great Value Seeds from Country Value

Globe shaped with great tasting, deep red flesh. Lift young as 'baby beets' or leave to mature.

Great Value Seeds from Country Value

Ideal for early sowing with excellent bolt resistance. Evenly shape with good colour, texture and flavour.

A flatter-rooted beet, growing mainly above the soil surface, with smooth skinned, with a deep red, tender and flavoursome flesh. Excellent and traditionally sown for an earlier crop in frames, but is ideal for sowing in succession outdoors throughout the season. Stores well for use during the winter.

Attractive Italian heirloom variety. Concentric rings of rose-red and white, good flavour. Lift young as 'baby beets' or leave to mature. Excellet source of folate and good source of potassium.

Introduced in the USA in the 1940's. Great mild taste with golden roots that can be lifted as baby beets, making an attractive addition to mixed salads, or left to mature. The orange roots turn a lovely golden colour when cooked.

A celebrated heirloom variety first introduced in Boston U.S.A. The rounded, slightly flattened roots are renowned for their excellent flavour and resistance to bolting. Can be lifted young as 'baby' beets or when mature.

Long cylindrical roots are perfect for slicing with firm, crimson flesh that is slow to go woody. A monogerm variety, it produces only 1 or 2 seedlings per cluster which makes thinning much easier.

An excellent resistance to bolting from an early sowing with the colour and the flesh as good as Detroit. Sweet fresh flavour.

An improved Detroit with rich maroon colouring. These globe-shaped beet are ideal for successional sowing.

Bolting is almost a thing of the past with this excellent globe beetroot! Ready to harvest over a week earlier than Boltardy, which it supersedes in all respects. Firm, smooth, deep red flesh without a hint of fibre, even when 12.5cm (5in) in diameter. Vigorous, high yields which are synonymous with F1 Hybrids.

New 2008

Smooth, round, dark red skinned roots with a superb dark flesh colour and increased sugar levels. Delicious cooked or eaten raw, used as baby beets or when mature. Good resistance to bolting.

The first F1 hybrid cylindrical Housewives Choice Beetroot with the sweetest of flavours. Uniform, straight roots have a smooth rich red skin and flesh colour, free from rings making them easy to prepare.

Roots stand proud above the soil, but can be earthed up, and remain in good condition for long periods.

High quality, round, bright red fleshed roots which do not go woody. Wonderful flavour when freshly cooked, either as baby beet or as larger roots. Ideal for pickling. The young leaves can be used as an alternative to spinach.

A main crop variety with round to oval, high quality roots with a dark red colour. The hybrid vigour makes it a very strong grower which will do well in most sites and soils; good in dry seasons. Excellent for exhibition.

British bred monogerm variety, producing only one seedling per seed cluster, reducing the need of thinning out. Smooth skinned, round roots are ideal as a baby beet or as a mature root, high in sugar content for the sweetest of flavours.

Good resistance to bolting, leaf spot, downy and powdery mildew.