Beet for centuries is a ubiquitous valuable nutritious product. It is widely represented in many favorite and popular dishes of Russian cuisine. Gardeners willingly grow beets, while trying to choose the most juicy and sweet varieties.
This vegetable is rich in vitamins and promotes healing of the body. This article describes in detail what determines the sweetness of the root, whether it can be increased, which varieties are the best, red and sugary.
What does it depend on?
The sweetness of beets can be very different, as well as its juiciness and softness. The sweetness of beets is characterized by the percentage of sugar in it.
With the wrong farming practices, you can get hard and savory root vegetables.
Of fundamental importance is:
- selection of quality seeds;
- proper care - sufficient uniform irrigation, maintaining constant moisture and soil looseness, air access to the roots, thinning of seedlings, proper feeding and alkalization of the soil, maintaining a pH 6.5-7.5, weeding, mulching;
- the size of the harvested root crops should not exceed 5-6 cm.
Is there only sweetness in this beet?
Of all the types of beet sugar is the sweetest. The sugar content in its modern varieties is more than 20%. She was taken out of the fodder beet just for industrial sugar production in the 18th century in Germany. And this was done due to the fact that there is a lot of sugar in the vegetable in general: in the dining room - 8.3%, in the feed - 6%.
Which types are the darkest and contain the most carbohydrates?
The color of the skin of red beet can range from red to intensely violet.and the pulp is from white to dark red and dark purple. It is believed that the darker the flesh, the tastier the fruit and the more sugar, vitamins, anthocyanins and minerals in it.
But there are currently many sweet varieties with a pulp from white to yellow. As for sugar beet as such, its pulp has white color.
The most popular among gardeners are varieties of the harvest-sugary group.
Sugar
Early:
- Latifa - very early variety, characterized by drought resistance, high sugar content of 20.2%.
- Clarina characterized by the rapid growth of the root and the accumulation of sugar, sugar content of 18.9%.
- Acacia - A distinctive feature is resistance to disease and drought, high sugar content, sugar content of 18.5%.
In more detail about the early varieties of beets and the characteristics of their cultivation, we told here.
Medium:
- Spark - perfectly combines high yield and sugar content of 19.3%, tolerant to diseases.
- Caesaria it is characterized by high resistance to diseases, high sugar content of 19%.
- Andromeda - high-yielding variety with large roots, disease tolerant, sugar content 18.5%.
- Casimir - well stored, resistant to diseases, high sugar content of 19.8%.
Late:
- Ephesus - high-yielding hybrid, resistant to diseases and drought, sugar content 18.2%.
- Roderick - fast growing, highly productive, resistant to disease and drought, a hybrid with a sugar content of 18.3%.
- Concept - a highly productive, fast-growing, disease-tolerant hybrid whose sugar content is 18.6%.
You will find a detailed description of sugar beet and instructions for growing it in this material.
Canteen
Early:
- Red ball has roots weighing 150-250 grams with juicy dark red pulp. Sow in early spring and harvest in about 70 days.
- Bohemia ripens in 77-83 days, has a great taste and tolerance to diseases, is well preserved.
- Pablo F1 has rounded sweet roots weighing 200-380 grams, which are well stored.
- Egyptian flat has large purple-maroon root crops weighing more than half a kilo with a pleasant taste, dormant, drought-resistant.
Medium:
- Valenta has smooth dark red roots weighing 175-360 grams with an unusual dessert taste, has cold resistance, tolerance to diseases, is well stored.
- Delicacy is a universal cold-resistant culture with small round dark cherry fruits, suitable for all types of cooking.
- Eclips - A culture resistant to adverse weather conditions.
The Eclipse variety has elongated oval-cylindrical curved root crops weighing up to 350 grams with delicate red-violet flesh, which are stored for a long time.
- Mashenka - highly productive culture tolerant to diseases, having dark red cylindrical fruit weighing about half a kilogram with excellent taste.
Late:
- Mulatto - high-yielding, unpretentious variety, has maroon round root vegetables weighing 180-360 grams with a wonderful taste.
- Ataman resistant to frost, has dark red cylindrical fruit weighing 200-300 grams with a delicious, juicy, tender flesh.
- Lark - high-yielding, color-stable and stem-resistant culture, characterized by dark red rounded root crops weighing 125-340 grams; vegetable has the ability to excrete toxic substances and radionuclides from the body.
- Renova - undemanding to growing conditions, cold-resistant culture, has cylindrical fruits weighing up to 400 grams with a delicious red-purple pulp, odorless.
We discussed the pros and cons of table beet, as well as its area of application and technology of cultivation, here.
The best table varieties
Bordeaux-237
The medium early variety (60-110 days), is distinguished by drought resistance, long storage, tolerance to diseases, has dark red roots weighing up to half a kilogram with excellent taste and high sugar content up to 12%.
We offer to watch a video review of the variety Bordeaux-237:
Detroit
Mid-season culture (about 110 days), not afraid of spring frosts and diseases, moisture-loving during growth, fruits are small, up to 210 grams, with burgundy pulp, excellent taste, sugar content up to 14%.
We offer to watch a video about the Detroit variety:
Incomparable A 463
It has excellent taste properties, resistance to cercopiasis, the ability to be stored for a long time, suitable for all types of cooking.
We offer you to get acquainted with the review of the grade Incomparable A 436:
Cylinder
Medium late (110-130 days) culture, high-yielding, resistant to diseases and adverse weather conditions, lying, with dark red cylindrical juicy root crops weighing 250-500 grams with a pleasant taste, odorless.
We offer to watch a useful video about the variety of beet of the Cylinder:
Rocket F1
Mid-season variety (110-120 days), characterized by high yield, good keeping quality, disease resistance, cylindrical dark red root vegetables with purple pulp weighing up to 400 grams and excellent taste.
Mona
Medium early (75-100 days) single-growth variety, cylindrical fruit up to 300 grams with dark red flesh, excellent taste, does not require additional thinning, has a good keeping quality, gives a stable crop.
The best sugar varietal species
Ramona single seed 47
Single-growth crop, has a yield of up to 44 t / ha and a sugar content of 18.6%, tolerant to adverse conditions and diseases.
PMC 70
Resistant to drought and disease, a hybrid characterized by a yield of up to 46 t / ha and a sugar content of 18.6%.
Lgovskaya single seed 52
Single-growth variety with yield up to 48.6 t / ha, sugar content 16.7%, cultivated by intensive technology, resistant to diseases.
Is it possible to increase the sweetness of the root?
You can increase the sweetness of beets, if you carry out the right care for her:
- Use the best seeds purchased.
- Prepare loose alkaline soil with a pH of 6.5-7.5, fertilized with ashes and humus.
- Systematically produce watering, loosening, mulching.
- Feed plants with ash and a solution of mullein, but not manure.
- Once per season, water the soil with a solution of boric acid at the rate of 10 g per bucket of water, at the beginning and at the end of June - infusion of nettle.
- Clean small 5-6 centimeter root vegetables.
IMPORTANT! The sweetness of beets can be enhanced by using table salt (iodized). Dissolve one tablespoon per 10 liters of water and pour the bed three times with this solution. When six leaves grow, the fruit will grow out of the ground by 4 cm, then in a fortnight.
Sweet beet varieties, as well as sugar beet, have a large number of nutrients that play an important food role in everyday life and in the food industry. Therefore, the choice of varieties adapted to Russian weather conditions, which grow better, abundantly bear fruit, and taste great, is of fundamental importance for obtaining a high-quality harvest of sweet beets.
