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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 09:07:40 -0500
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:39:56 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:54:45AM -0600, Willie McKemie wrote:
>> I have a few sugar beets coming. Is there any market for them as human
>
>I just tried my first sugar beet greens this evening. They were
>surprisingly good. Very spinach-like. I have only immature plants,
>greens 3"-6" long, no root to speak of. I haven't eaten any "regular"
>beet greens, so I can't compare them.
'Regular' beet greens are also very spinach-like, but even
better than spinach, in my opinion. I think they are the
very best greens of all.
I haven't tasted sugar beet greens.
I've been reading some booklets from John Jeavon's outfit,
(http://www.growbiointensive.org/). They mention mangels
(huge beets, generally grown for livestock) and say that
both the roots and greens are good to eat. I think mangels
must make *a whole lot* of greens. I'm going to try them
this year, if I can find (a) seed and (b) room for them.
Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
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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[Market-farming] sugar beets,
Willie McKemie, 02/01/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Lucy Goodman, 02/01/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Bill Shoemaker, 02/01/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Jill Bussiere, 02/01/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets, Bill Shoemaker, 02/01/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Jill Bussiere, 02/01/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Bill Shoemaker, 02/01/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Willie McKemie, 02/12/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Pat Meadows, 02/13/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Willie McKemie, 02/13/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets, Pat Meadows, 02/13/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets, Jen Prosser, 02/14/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets, Jen Prosser, 02/14/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Willie McKemie, 02/13/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Pat Meadows, 02/13/2006
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets, tonitime, 02/01/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sugar beets,
Lucy Goodman, 02/01/2006
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