Green Top Bunching Beets, Heirloom Seeds

Bunching Beets, Heirloom Seeds — Dual Harvest Flat Globe Roots and Exceptional Market Greens

Green Top Bunching Beets are the market grower's beet — a dual-purpose variety selected as much for its exceptional tops as for its roots. Flattened globe-shaped roots are deep purplish-red, 3 inches across, tasty, and excellent for cooking, pickling, and winter storage. But the real standout is the tops: tall, vigorous, 15-inch dark green leaves with red veins that are glossy, beautiful, and exceptional as a market greens crop. Harvest the glossy red-veined tops for salads as the plant grows, then harvest the roots at full maturity. An excellent all-around beet that pickles beautifully and stores in the ground over winter. 48–60 days.

Why Grow Bunching Beets?

• Exceptional market greens — tall, vigorous 15-inch dark green tops with red veins
• Dual harvest — harvest greens as it grows, roots at full maturity
• Flat globe roots — deep purplish-red, 3 inches across, excellent for cooking and pickling
• Stores in the ground over winter — excellent for late-season and storage crops
• First early beet for mid-summer sowing — reliable and productive
• Open-pollinated heirloom — save seed year after year

Growing Notes

Direct sow outdoors 4–6 weeks before last frost or in late summer for fall harvest. Sow seeds ½ inch deep, 1 inch apart, in rows 12 inches apart. Thin to 3–4 inches for root production. Full sun. Keep soil consistently moist. Harvest greens as needed; harvest roots at 48–60 days when 2–3 inches in diameter.

Days to maturity: 48–60 days
Packet size: 2.6 g / 200+ seeds
Type: Heirloom, Open-Pollinated, Annual
Spacing: 9 per sq ft
Sowing depth: ½ inch
Sun: Full sun
USDA Zones: 2–11 (annual)