So, as you know, I decided to grow beets this winter. Well, we needed some sort of vegetable matter for the soup at lunch (Udon, a Japanese noodle soup.) I picked two very small beets, one yellow one and one purple. I cut them in slices, stir-fried them and put them in the soup with caramelized onions. Not bad, not bad at all. They are kind of like a carrot, but sweeter, sort of like a sweet potato but firmer. The purple one is…amazingly purple. That purple leaked all over everything it touched. Just washing it left purple droplets all over the place. If I ever decided not to eat the beets, I could just mash them and use the juice to color all my white t-shirts.

I’d grow them again, but I think that turkey compost has too much nitrogen–I had huge, beautiful green leaves and a small beet. That’s usually a sign that the energy is going into the leaves because the root doesn’t have to root much. I probably picked them way early too, but they were in a pot rather than free-wheeling it in the garden, so I don’t think they were going to grow much bigger.

All in all, a satisfactory experiment.