Beets are excellent candidates for container gardening.

Beets are often overlooked when it comes to a container garden. Learn how to grow beets right on your patio for a colorful ...

Beets—which are also known by their less popular name, beetroot—are the edible taproot portion of the beet plant, says Natasha Nicholes, the executive director of We Sow We Grow. "They just happen to ...

Q: I ran out of time as I was finishing up garden chores, and I never harvested a couple dozen beets. They’re still out there. The ground is frozen, and when I dig up a beet it is covered with ice ...

This week, in our unheated greenhouse, we seeded heirloom beets into living soil blocks set in trays. We also planted optimism that the concrete floor, buckets of rainwater and humidity domes will ...

The word beet invokes a strong response; a quick yum or yuck. I was introduced to red beets as a child, as they were one of those tried and true crops raised in our very large farm garden. These beets ...

Beets (Beta vulgaris) are one of those vegetables ideally suited to the late-summer garden for harvesting in the fall. While we plant them now in August to mature before the first frost (somewhere ...

Some of my favorite cool-season crops are beets, spinach and Swiss chard. They all belong to the same plant family, Amaranthaceae, so they have the same cultural needs and potential insect problems.

Canned, pickled, roasted or in a salad — beets are a versatile root vegetable. Often seeded close together, beets are thinned out as they begin to grow with the tops making a great addition to salad ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Local gardening organizations and enthusiasts are holding a garden tour through the Metro-Toledo region this weekend. The Metro Beet Garden tour and is a self-guided tour through ...