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Show RICH, SANDY LOAM FOR BEETS Seed Should Be Sown About Time Last Frosts Are Due; Ready for Use In Few Weeks. Garden beets may be grown In any good soil, but thrive best on rich, sandy loam. The seed can be sown about the time the last frosts are due, and the young beets will be ready for use in 4 to 6 weeks. Later plantings will give a succession succes-sion and provide beets for winter storage. The seed should be sown In a drill with about 8 or 10 seed balls to the foot. It should be borne in mind that each seed hall contains from r- 1 Young Beets Make Good Greens. 1 to 6 seeds, and that the beets will require considerable thinning. The young beets that are pulled out In thinning may be used as greens during the early spring. Where the beets are to be given hand cultivation entirely, the rows may be placed as closely as 12 to 14 Inches apart and the plants should be thinned to 2 to 3 Inches in the row. United States Department of Agriculture. |