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BEETS— WHEN TO SOW AND HOW 
S INCE beet seedlings are very hardy, seeds may be 
sown as early in the spring as the soil can be dug 
and raked. On the Pacific Coast beets are a year-around 
vegetable from seeds sown as early as February and as 
late as May. 
Seeds are generally sown thinly, in rows one half to one 
inch deep, allowing eighteen inches to two feet between 
the roves. The seeds are composite kernels, containing 
from two to three sprouts each, and should not be sown 
any more thickly than one kernel to every inch. After 
covering, walk over the rows, as shown in illustration on 
preceding page, to firmly press soil in contact with seeds. 
This quickly causes the spongy kernels to rot. 
The average packet contains sufficient seeds to sow 
twenty feet of row. Three ounces will provide all the 
beets required by the average family. A fifteen-foot row 
will yield about five dozen roots. By sowing seeds up to 
end of July a constant supply is easily secured. 
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