Hey everyone. Welcome back to the podcast and today can you guess what vegetable we're going to be talking about. I'm going to give you one guess

Beats baby drop the beat. We're talking about beats. Now beats have kind of gotten a bad rap over the years kind of as being this strange red thing on a salad bar. I don't know. I used to go to like soup plantation as a kid until I realize

soup plantation literally has no meat at all now I'm not trying to say all I eat is

meat but I do enjoy some meat and these days I am trying to be a bit more

sustainable about how I consume my meat, but I did not realize

superantesian has no meat at all. That being said, beats were a mainstay of that salad bar and I really was not a fan of them as a kid.

So that was a shame because beats are actually quite versatile and

there's a lot of ways to prepare them that makes them much tastier than they might appear at first glance.

So, how do we actually grow these?

Well, the first thing we're going to do is we are going to talk a little bit about the plant itself

and then we're going to get into some

different varieties and that's where I'm going to end today's show because again

kind of like the carrots one last week is a large topic and I'd like to I'd like to get a little meteor a little beatier about it with you guys so I'm going to slow it down and chunk it out over a couple episodes

So first of all all about beats the botanical name is going to be beta vulgaris subspecies

vulgaris. I love when the botanical name is just the same thing. The

subspecies is the same thing, but that covers more than one root vegetable.

So there are actually many different forms of beets.

We're going to be focusing on the beet root and the garden beep, but there are entire families

of different cultivars that are similar but somewhat different in their growing

habits. Some beet species are actually used as animal fodder. Other used in the production of sugar

instead of sugar cane, so beet sugar.

And then some forms are cultivated for their leafy greens

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