Kestrel Beet Hybrid Deep red, beautifully rounded, globe-shaped roots with high sugar content and excellent hybrid vigor. For fresh market or home garden growing for early baby beets, it's hard to find a better variety! Bright green, semi-glossy tops. Excellent disease resistance!
53 days. Classic rich sweet flavour and deep red beet roots.
Approximately 125 seeds.
How to Grow
Beets thrive in sandy loam with a pH of 6.0 to 7.5. Remember to fertilize. For continual harvest, sow seeds 1/2" deep and 1" apart in two week intervals beginning when the soil has warmed to 7 degrees Celsius and avoid sowing after mid July. As each beet seed is actually a corky fruit with 2 to 5 seeds contained within, it is important to thin the young seedlings to 3-4" apart to provide enough room for proper root formation. Use plants that are thinned as a source of tender, edible greens. Over-watering or excessive rainfall may lead to excessive leaf growth and pale or small roots. One packet sows approximately 20' of row.
