Beetroot Melbourne Early Slow Bolt

This delicious beetroot has a uniform deep red ring-less colour, a fine flavour and texture with flattened globe-shaped roots growing up to 10cm. With attractive tall glossy leaves, this is an ideal variety for salad greens. Suitable also picked early as baby beets.

Beetroot Melbourne Early Slow Bolt has a high nutrition and vitamin content with tops that are a rich source of vitamin C. Great to eat in salads or soups. This beetroot is a native of Northern Africa and Western Mediterranean regions. The ancient Greeks only used leaves. Beetroot can be steamed with other veggies or grated raw as well as boiled and pickled for salads. This beetroot can successfully be sown indoors and transplanted.

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