Organic Beet Seeds for Microgreens

Organic Beet seeds are easy to grow into Microgreens in your kitchen all year. They have the Latin name Beta vulgaris conditiva. Beet is also called: Red beet, Beetroot or Sugar-beet.

Vitamins and minerals in Beet

Beet Microgreens is the most nutritious sprout and microgreen you can find. They contain the vitamins: A, B6, B9, C and the minerals Iron, Magnesium, Calcium, Potassium, Sodium.

Beet is a slow sprout

Beet is very slow to get started. I may take as much as 7 days until the seeds open and let our the first little sign of purple life. Because of this many give up on the sprouts. To make sure you get a result, the trick is to make sure, the seeds do not dry out during cultivation – even if the twice daily rinsing seem useless. But it is veru important that you keep the seeds wet. If they dry out, they wither and will never grow. So just keep rinsing, keep the seeds from drying out and you will get your besutiful plants.

Taste and use in food

Beet is a very beautiful plant both as sprout and as the bigger microgreen. As the plants have an after taste of red beet, I personally prefer to use them in green dishes where red beet would be natural. That would be in sandwiches, green salads and wraps. But you can also use these very beautiful plants as decoration on cake, ice cream or other desserts.

Cultivation time of organic Beet seeds for Microgreens

You can grow your organic Beet seeds into either sprouts or microgreens. If your kitchen temperature is 18-23 ° C / 64-73 ° F, your Beet sprouts should be ready for harvest after 10 days of cultivation. At the same temperature, they should have grown to mature microgreens after a total of 20 days.

Cultivation device for Beet microgreens

Beet sprouts can grow in any sprouting device that can keep the seeds wet enough to sprout. The bigger Beet Microgreens will, however, give the best result in a SproutPearl sprouter or a Hemp mat. This is because these two methods let the plants get plenty of room to grow and ensure enough ventilation around the plant tops.
See SproutPearl sprouter or See Hemp mat.

Microgreens need light and fertilizer

If you grow Microgreens, then the plants need artificial light and extra fertilizer from day 7 of the cultivation. Under MICRO KIT you can find descriptions about the right amount of light and fertilizer for Microgreens when you use each product. Visit Micro Kit.

I have also written different blog articles about microgreens. Those may interest you and give you tips for succes.
Visit the BLOG.

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Organic Beet seeds
before soaking

Organic Beet Sprouts
after 8 days

Organic Beet Sprouts
after 12 days

Organic Beet seeds for Sprouts and Microgreens

You can grow organic beet seeds to both sprouts and microgreens in your kitchen all year.

NAMES

Beet sprouts and microgreens are the same ad Rootbeet and Red beet. The Latin name for this variety is Beta vulgaris conditiva.

TASTE

Beet sprouts have a mild taste of raw beet root as both sprout and microgreens. You do not eat the seed hulls, as they are quite bitter and hard to chew.

LOOKS

Beet is a fragile looking little sprout and microgreen plant. As a mature sprout it is 12 cm long from root tip to leaf top. As a microgreen it is 18 cm long.

NUTRIENTS

Organic Mustard for sprouts and microgreens contain the nutrients:

B1, B2, B3, B6, B9, C, E, K, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Selenium.

EDIBLE PARTS

Beet is a beautiful sprout and microgreen. You should eat the seed husks. They are edible, but quite bitter and too rich in fibre to be digested. You can in stead eat the pink root, purple stem and green/purple leaves.

TIME

Organic beet sprouts take 10 days from dry seed to edible sprout. Note that they start to grow very slowly. As microgreens they take up to 18 days from seed to microgreens ready for harvest and serving for your food.

How you grow Organic Beet seeds into Sprouts and Microgreens

 

Tips for Organic Beet Sprouts and Microgreens

 

SOIL SCENT

Organic Beet naturally have a strong, purple colour and a thick seed hull. This seed hull tend to have a soil like scent, when it is wet.

The scent does not mean your beet sprouts have gone bad.

 The soil like scent on the beet sprouts will dissapear once you remove the hulls just before eating the sprouts.

SLOW GROWTH

Your organic Beet seeds will start to sprout very slowly. It is normal that they lie dormant in your sporuter the first 3-4 days after the soaking.

But stay patient and keep rinsing morning and evening. On day 5 you will start to see a small purple tip peek out of the seed hull.

Soon after you can clearly see progress.

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