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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets
  • Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:01:35 -0500

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:10:37 -0600, you wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:07:40AM -0500, Pat Meadows wrote:
>> (http://www.growbiointensive.org/). They mention mangels
>> (huge beets, generally grown for livestock) and say that
>
>I've only seen mention of mangels; never actually seen the plant. Are
>they chard/beet-like? Have crinkled seed? Or turnip-like with smooth
>round seed?

I haven't seen them either, but they are the same species as
beets and chard: _Beta vulgaris_. So I think their seeds
must be crinkled like beets and chard.

http://www.museums.org.za/bio/plants/amaranthaceae/beta_vulgaris.htm

I found seed for them, by the way:

http://www.felcopruners.net/Beets.0.html

(Scroll down - there are pictures.)

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
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supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry




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