There is an opinion that cylindrical varieties of beets not only have better taste, but also a much greater set of vitamins and beneficial microelements than round ones. Indeed, cylindrical beets are very sweet and without rings, which helps the pulp have bright and rich shades. But the list of vitamins and nutrients cannot depend on the shape of the root vegetable, since this wealth is endowed by the vegetable itself, and not its variations.
Despite the single useful fund, cylindrical beets are especially popular among gardeners, so we offer a list of the most popular varieties of beets with a cylindrical root crop.
Useful properties of sugar beets
The plant has many beneficial qualities. It helps heal the liver, heart, and cleanses the blood. The fruits are enriched with vitamins A, C, B. In addition, they contain manganese, zinc, iron, manganese, and copper.
This vegetable can be consumed for:
- Memory improvements;
- Reducing cholesterol;
- Cancer prevention;
- Increasing the amount of iron in the body.
Drinking beetroot juice daily refreshes the skin. The price of this elixir is affordable for everyone. The root vegetable helped some girls become slim.
The benefits of the magic root vegetable
Table beet
is a well-known vegetable; it is a frequent guest on any table. A seemingly simple root vegetable hides an entire periodic table. Beetroot has a unique composition of useful substances that do not lose their properties during heat treatment. The vegetable contains a number of amino acids necessary for the body, vitamins, microelements, organic acids, minerals and a huge amount of fiber.
Due to its beneficial composition, beets are used in folk medicine. It is used to treat runny nose, hypertension, constipation, tuberculosis, skin ulcers, and scurvy. The vegetable is consumed to strengthen the immune system, improve metabolism and remove toxins from the body.
The best varieties of early beets
Red ball
It ripens early and has dietary qualities. Planted in spring. Ripening occurs in 90-100 days. Count down after the seedlings sprout. The vegetable is round and can reach a weight of 300 grams.
Flesh color: dark red. There is a reddish rough tone. Taste qualities: tender and juicy. It is distinguished by its cold resistance, allowing for summer and autumn harvests. It can resist rot and is distinguished by its unsurpassed taste. Can be stored and used without prior heat treatment.
Vodan
Refers to an early, high-yielding hybrid species. Growth continues for about 80 days. Wodan is dark red in color and has a smooth round shape with a thin tail. There are no light rings on the fruits. The grown root vegetable can weigh up to 500 g and has a distinct, juicy taste.
Pablo F1
This sweet, early-ripening plant has a round shape. Burgundy rich color of the pulp, covered with thin skin. There are no white rings inside. The weight of one piece is about 200-370 grams. Harvesting begins from the 85th to the 95th day. This option is often used in making vinaigrettes. The product can be stored for a long time.
Boltardi
It ripens very early, withstands low temperatures and produces a good harvest. The root fruit has a tasty juicy mass. The cut is decorated with radial rings. On average it weighs 160 grams. Neat rounded shape of the vegetable.
Beets are left for storage for the winter, as they are able to resist various diseases. The root crop retains its quality for six months.
Egyptian flat
It has very large fruits with purple-burgundy pulp. Their weight can reach up to half a kilo. The interior is decorated with small lightened circles. Juicy and sweet fruits make a good vinaigrette.
The culture matures in three months. Due to its drought resistance, Egyptian flatbread can be stored for -6 months.
Bordeaux
The well-known cold-resistant variety ripens on the 99th day. The fruit is medium-sized and has a round shape. The vegetable attracts with its pleasant sweet taste and dark red flesh. Beets do not lose their properties from freezing. The shelf life is long, more than 6 months. Can be sown in autumn. The plant is not afraid of pests and diseases.
Detroit
It ripens quickly and is cold-resistant. Spring frosts are not a problem for this type of beet. When active growth begins, you need to water a lot. Red root vegetables have no light rings. Weight can reach 210 grams.
In appearance, neat and round root vegetables. Vegetables are completely removed by day 110. Detroit beets are immune to disease. From feeding, the fruits become larger.
Basic recommendations for growing
Cultivation of "Cylinders" is not difficult. Choose a well-lit area for sowing. No pre-application of manure is required. Beets “do not like” fresh organic fertilizers: growing on too “oily” soils spoils the taste and shape of the root crops.
During the growing season, as the plants grow, 2-3 thinnings are carried out, leaving the strongest ones and increasing the distances between them
The first time the seedlings are thinned out in the phase of 1-2 true leaves. At the same time, the strongest seedling is preserved from each “joint”. During the growing season, 2 more thinnings are made, leaving a distance of 9-10 centimeters between plants. The rest of the care comes down to periodic watering, loosening the soil and weed control. In this sense, mulching with grass that is mowed between the rows and slightly dried brings good results.
“Cylinder” is weakly affected by pathogens and pests; If standard agrotechnical standards are observed, there is usually no need for preventive treatments
The best mid-season beet varieties
Borscht
Grows in regions with different soils. It is famous for its excellent taste properties, as well as its dark crimson color. There are no white curls. In some places there may be light rings. Root vegetables reach a weight of 500 grams and have thin skin. Ripening occurs after 98 days.
If fed well, the farmer can achieve a good harvest from the borscht beet variety. More than nine kilograms can be grown on one square meter. Sowing is carried out in summer or winter. Vegetable juices, snacks, salads and first courses are prepared from this variety.
Opolskaya
It is a mid-season, moisture-loving plant with an oblong configuration. The fruits have an elongated shape and thin skin. With growth, timely and abundant watering is required. Vegetables need to be stored for about 6 months. At the same time, no change in presentation and aromatic taste is observed.
Patrick
The crop is single-sprout, so the bed is not thinned out. The root crop ripens on the 120th day. The vegetable is round. The shade is dark burgundy. Dimensions reach 200 grams. The cut is decorated with weak rings.
The pulp has a delicate structure, without fibrousness.
Donskaya flat
It ripens quickly on the 110th day, after sprouts begin to appear. 480 centners of sugar product grow on one hectare. A large percentage has a marketable appearance. One piece weighs more than 230 grams.
Mulatto
Large and tasty spherical root vegetables. Weight can reach up to 0.5 kg. The color of the pulp is uniform red. The fruits are tasty and soft. Cooked mulatto beets remain as bright as they were before heat treatment. Can be stored all winter.
Ripe roots are harvested on day 115. 1 sq. m of land produces about seven kilograms of crop.
Features of care
To obtain a high and high-quality harvest, you must follow a few simple rules:
- The distance between seedlings should not be less than 10 cm;
- It is important to constantly monitor the amount of microelements in the soil. In the first month, it is recommended to feed the soil with fertilizers containing nitrogen;
- It is important to remove weeds and loosen the soil in a timely manner;
- Very important microelements for beets are potassium, magnesium and fluorine. They can be replenished with wood ash and fermented herbal infusion;
- Chemical fertilizers should be avoided to prevent the fruits from accumulating nitrates;
- Abundant watering should be done only during the germination period. 2 weeks before harvesting, stop watering the Cylinder beets completely.
The cylinder is not watered before harvesting
Experienced gardeners add table salt to the water, in the proportions of 1 teaspoon of salt per bucket of water. This will increase the sugar content of the root crop and protect it from pests.
Description of the best late beet varieties
The following are the names of varieties with a late maturity. These are the best beet varieties that can withstand frosts in spring and autumn, as well as summer heat. The products are stored until the new harvest ripens. During this time they lose some weight. The appearance remains attractive.
Citadel
The late-ripening variety has a medium length and a cylindrical configuration. The interior color is bright. Prized for its beetroot aroma. If stored correctly, the root crop will remain juicy until the end of spring. External and taste properties remain unchanged.
Renova
A high-yielding type of cylindrical beet. It has a thin skin of dark pink color. The interior is red-violet. Vegetables do not smell and have a pleasant taste. Weight is about 390 grams. Cylindrical beet varieties are cold-resistant and unpretentious.
Cylinder
The culture is heat-resistant and cold-resistant. The rhizomes are similar in appearance to a cylinder. The ripening of the red root occurs on the 101st day and continues until the 120th day. ripe product is small in size. If well cared for, it grows up to 0.7 kg, 32 cm.
The fruits are tasty, juicy, and do not smell. The cylinder has a thin surface, despite this, it retains its quality for almost a year. Culture is able to withstand negative factors.
Single shoot
If you care for it correctly, you will have a high harvest. The development cycle is 130 days. If you put the culture in a cool cellar, it will retain its qualities for 6 months. The weight of one piece is more than 500 grams.
The outside of the root is covered with a thin dark burgundy skin. Appearance: flat-round. Seedlings are grown in cassettes. Does not succumb to diseases.
Red ruby
Used in processing. The ripening cycle is 100/120 days. Weight can reach up to 240 g. The ruby has rounded edges. Can be cooked in a short time. This is its peculiarity.
Bolivar
Dutch breeders were developing this variety. Vegetation cycle 95/115 days. Weight – 230 grams. Type – round. The insides are a rich red color. The culture is cold-resistant and grows in drought and humid climates.
How to buy good seeds
The success of the harvest depends on the efforts of the gardener: sowing on time, weeding and watering regularly. Much depends on the weather, so it is not possible to obtain high yields of beets and other root crops every year.
However, success largely depends on the quality of the seeds. Specialized stores work with regular suppliers, which almost always guarantees quality seeds.
You should not buy cheap seeds in stores that sell them as a related product: you will definitely not get a good harvest. With just 2-3 years of gardening experience, you can select agrotechnical companies that produce seeds for yourself. This time will be enough to experiment with several options.
What else should be considered when choosing seeds, see here:
Variety selection
When choosing a beet variety, vegetable growers often ask the following questions:
- What are the best beet varieties without light rings?
- Which beets are the sweetest: variety, size, color?
Varieties without light rings
Light rings in the pulp are traces of the basal rosette of leaves. The root grown from the seed gradually grows and becomes a root crop. The root thickens due to the division of cambium cells - primary and secondary. This alternation forms stripes of different colors on the beet cut.
Housewives do not like such beets because they are not very aesthetically pleasing, and most importantly, because these stripes are rougher due to the cells that conduct nutrients into the root crop. Such beets take longer to cook and eventually become light and tasteless.
Modern hybrid varieties bred by breeders have not had such rings for a long time. These are “Modana”, “Detroit”, “Borschevaya”, “Pablo F1”, “Bohemia” and all varieties of cylindrical beets.
The sweetest
Bordeaux 237 beets, developed back in Soviet times, are still one of the sweetest. “Mulatka”, “Valenta”, “Bravo” - all these varieties are also not inferior in sugar content, but “Tsilindra” is in the lead.
Selection of varieties for the Moscow region
Before planting vegetables, you must first determine the region. Then they choose the variety. For central Russia, breeders have prepared such early varieties as:
- "Slav";
- "Red Ball";
- "Pushkinskaya flat";
- "Mulatto";
- "Bordeaux-237";
- "Gribovskaya flat";
- "Wodan";
- "Boltardiran";
- "Detroit".
In a maximum of three months, the fruits will ripen.
Eclipse
The culture has reddish-purple flesh with a delicate, juicy aroma. For the Moscow region, an excellent choice of mid-season crop with an elongated cylindrical body. The end of the vegetable is blunt, rounded, slightly curved.
Ataman
This cylindrical root is considered medium late. He is not afraid of frost. The formation of the vegetable ends after 133 days. Weight -300 grams. Burgundy-colored root vegetables with a delicate and juicy taste can last a long time.
Bohemia
This variety appeared recently, thanks to the work of Russian breeders. It has excellent taste, and the main region for cultivation is Volga-Vyatka.
Characteristics:
- shape – flattened, with obvious suberization at the base;
- fruit color – dark burgundy;
- weight – 210-350 g;
- the pulp is dark burgundy, there are no rings;
- quite resistant to fungal diseases;
- has good shelf life without losing taste and attractive appearance;
- mid-season variety - about 70-80 days pass from germination to ripening;
- yield – up to 4.8 kg/sq. m.
Suitable varieties for the Urals
This region is suitable for growing:
- "Valens";
- "Single-germ";
- "Bikoresa";
- "Betina";
- "Bones";
- "Dark red round";
- “Gribovskaya flat”;
- and others.
For the Urals, you should choose special offers from breeders.
Bicores
It is distinguished by its productivity and average ripeness. In addition, round burgundy vegetables with tasty juicy pulp weigh a maximum of 350 g. Planting per 1 sq. m of area will produce more than six kilograms of harvest.
Valenta
This single-growth crop with an oval-rounded root stops growing after 3 months. after the sprouts appear. Cold resistance, immunity from diseases. Sweetness, dark burgundy shade.
Bon-Bon F1
The plant is recognized by its roundness and thin skin. They begin to sow in April-July. The growing season is 120 days. F1 grows in cool climates with sudden temperature changes. If grown correctly, there will be a large offspring.
Reader Questions
When to harvest Cylinder beets?
The timing of harvesting beets of this variety should be carried out in the second half of September (depending on the climatic conditions of cultivation).
What is the ripening period for Cylinder beets?
Ripening time Cylinders according to the description from the manufacturers: 120-130 days from germination to technical ripeness.
What is the difference between single-sprout beets and regular (multi-sprout) beets?
Manufacturers assure that from one single-sprouted beet seed, one fruit grows, but according to experienced summer residents, this information is not always reliable. The main advantage of single-sprouted beet varieties is that they do not need to be thinned, since most species of this plant are multi-sprouted.
Suitable varieties for Siberia
When examining more adapted varieties, it is worth considering:
- "Mashenka";
- “Single-germ”;
- "Siberian flat";
- "Red Ice";
- "Cylinder"
- "Cold-resistant";
- "Winter"
- "Incomparable";
- "Bordeaux";
- "Pablo."
Siberian Flat
A dark product with a reddish-violet color. The fruits are flat, maximum weight is 400 grams. Distinctive features are cold resistance and disease resistance. After a hundred days you can collect.
Red ice
Just like the previous plant, this is an excellent option for Siberia. Root crops ripen for a short period of time. If you plant seeds on 1 square. m of land, you can get about five kilograms of root vegetables.
Mashenka
The crop is of medium ripeness and high yield, with an abundant dark red hue. Can be recognized by its cylindrical smooth structure. Farmers receive 9 kg/1 sq. m of land. The disease resistance of the plant contributes to the weight of one specimen reaching up to 600 grams.
Advice! If you grow the best varieties of sugar beets in seedlings, you can increase the yield.
Diseases and pests
Another advantage of Cylinder beets is good immunity to various diseases, but this does not mean that no preventive measures need to be taken. To grow a strong and healthy root crop, you need to know what conditions contribute to the occurrence of various diseases:
- composition of soil overloaded with chemicals;
- errors in cultivation and processing of the planting area;
- excess of “neighbors”, darkness;
- moisture stagnation;
- exposure of young seedlings to cold temperatures.
Preventive measures:
- compliance with agrotechnical rules for the care and cultivation of beets;
- compliance with crop rotation rules;
- selection of quality seeds and proper preparation for planting.
If parasites and pests still oppress the root crop, you need to know the measures to influence them:
- A fungal type of infection is phomosis. It manifests itself as rotting of the core of the root crop and spots on the edges of the tops. It is necessary to treat the beds with boric acid;
- Blackleg infection or rootworm. This means that the soil is not sufficiently saturated with oxygen. It is necessary to loosen the soil well, increase the acidity level and remove diseased plants;
- False dew. Lilac bloom on the leaves. The plant dries out and dies, fungicides are applied;
- Brown rot. The appearance of a gray coating on the surface of the vegetable. This is a result of excess moisture and nitrogen content in the soil. Control measure - all root crops are removed, and the area is not recommended for sowing beets for 2-3 years;
- Cercospora blight. It has a destructive effect on the tops and the vegetable itself. It is necessary to fertilize the soil with potassium (ash) and weed the area well;
- Insects: aphids, beet flies, midges, shield beetles. To control pests, it is necessary to dig up the ridges well after the harvest season and use insecticides.
High-quality care is the key to high yields of Cylinder beets.
