How to Grow and Cook Beetroot
A Beginners Guide to Growing and Preparing Beetroot in Your Own Garden
For those aspiring to a life built around the likes of the Goldeneye River Cottage here is a master class on growing and cooking your own Beta vulgaris !
How to Grow Beetroot From Seed
Then one day they’ll be ready - if, and only if, you’ve faithfully followed the above regime.
Nota bene: slacking off in any way, shape or form on any of the supra can lead to failure !
Needless to say, being green-fingered, diligent and an all round clever clogs … mine worked 
Now for the really tricky bit, preparing the beetroot.
There are various methods of cooking and pickling beetroot, all require great levels of skill, equipment, ingredients and knowledge, which of course I have
If you’re reading this then clearly you have nothing better to do so I’ll assume you lack the skills and wherewithal required to prepare said vegetables to my exacting gourmet standards.
In light of this, I have simplified the whole process for you, though not for myself you understand
How to Cook and Pickle Beetroot
“Ere do summing wiv these bruv !”
A Proud Me & My Prize Winning Beetroot
What prize you ask ?
Best Organic Root Vegetable on Wybers Wood
Picture © Miles Collins as will be the cooking, vinegar, jar and return journey
Foto shows myself just having harvested the crop, note impressive 4 foot high fennel to right.
Note unimpressive 1 foot high lawn to rear
Hoping all your seed comes to fruition (well those planted in soil that is)
Rod
Rod said,
September 23, 2007 @ 7:53 pm
Post Scriptum
Notice how he’s spammed me with his website address on the picture !
You should visit it and read something of quality for a change !
Post Post Scriptum
I seem to have suffered a sudden attack of latin during the writing of this which is better than a sudden attack of poisonous monkeys I suppose but not as nice as a sudden attack from Ashley Lawrence would be !
Anyway, I’ll make sure I take my anti-latin tablets tomorrow - just as well because that’s the full extent of my latin repertoire anyway.
I’d better stop now before they cart me away …
Little Brother said,
September 23, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
Rod,
I could smell the stitch up from Lincoln!
LB
ps I would mention the forthcoming recipe for pickled beetroot on my websites but that would be spamming and you know how I hate that.
Femme Fatale said,
September 24, 2007 @ 9:37 am
Rod,
Fabulous Beetroot, It must be very satisfying knowing that you can grow such spectacular veg from a small seed. Are you going to be selling it, for a small profit, of course, Or will your friends and family be seeing it in their sacks at Christmas?
FF
xx
Rod said,
September 24, 2007 @ 10:38 am
FF
Are you going to be selling it, for a small profit
If I factored in my time etc I would imagine each single piece of veg would cost about £50 - not the most cost effective thing I’ve done but certainly one of the most satisfying.
I shall be having a load of roasted med’ veg tonight - lovely
Best
RC
Jordan said,
September 24, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
Your doing well old boy
Rod said,
September 24, 2007 @ 2:22 pm
Hi Jordan
thanks for that, high praise indeed
I’m looking forward ot next year when I am going to try and grow just about everything possible !
Cheers
Rc
Little Brother said,
September 24, 2007 @ 2:32 pm
Femme Fatale
Family getting any of his veg? Fat chance-unless I’m cooking it.
LB
Femme Fatale said,
September 24, 2007 @ 6:48 pm
LB,
It appears that you only get to try the pickled variety, perhaps you need to tell RC that it all needs pickling, with his gardening knowledge, he will never realise
FF
xx
Femme Fatale said,
September 24, 2007 @ 6:50 pm
Rod,
Hope you enjoyed your Roasted Veg tonight?
It makes my mouth water just thinking about it.
FF
xx
Rod said,
September 24, 2007 @ 7:05 pm
FF
I’m too busy pickling my liver for posterity to worry about pickling vegetable
I have an assistant who takes care of these more basic culinary things freeing me up to concentrate on the more complicated aspects of life !
The roasted veg was delicious, finished it less than 10 mins ago:
Loads of extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and black pepper
3 courgettes
2 leeks
12 cherry tomatoes
1 plum tomato
Handful of french green beans
1 fennel bulb
served with wild mushroom and garlic couscous.
mmmmmmmmmm
Best
Rod
Femme Fatale said,
September 24, 2007 @ 7:19 pm
Rod,
Too busy pickling my liver, not very tasty with a salad!!!
Your dinner sounds fab and very healthy,too healthy in fact, for a gent such as yourself, to be indulging in Claret and Tobacco every evening, do you not agree?
FF
xx
Rod said,
September 24, 2007 @ 7:30 pm
FF
I’m working on one cancelling out the other - in fact so confident am I that I can laugh off the ravages of drinking and smoking I confidently predict I shall live at th every least to the grand old age of …
42 !
Bon Soir
Rod
Femme Fatale said,
September 24, 2007 @ 8:18 pm
Rod,
A long way to go yet, then.
You must have at least 12 more years to enjoy drinking and smoking!
FF
xx
Little Brother said,
September 24, 2007 @ 10:55 pm
Femme Fatale,
He’ll realise alright. I’ll put my mortgage on betting that he counted the beetroots before giving them to me and if he didn’t he’ll refer back to the photo!
LB
Femme Fatale said,
September 25, 2007 @ 2:18 pm
LB,
I can guarantee he will have to refer to the photo with his short term memory.
FF
xx