Mangel Wurzel or Mangold Wurzel (Beta vulgaris), is a root vegetable of the family Chenopodiaceae, genus Beta (the beets). It has large white, yellow or orange-yellow swollen roots – mostly above ground. Both leaves and routes can be eaten, if you find you’re really hungry! Leaves can be slightly steamed for salads or lightly boiled as a vegetable if treated like English spinach. They like to be well fed and watered and the roots like potato for serving mashed diced or in sweet curries.
Grow Your Own
Monday, April 12th, 2010
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
For best results, let the potato seed ‘sprout’ before planting. Purchase the seed from Orchard Park in late January. In mid February, place the seeds in boxes in a light airy position at a temperature of roughly 10°C / 50°F.
The potato seed should be positioned so that the sprouts are uppermost and the ’stalk’ end (where they were severed from the parent plant) is at the bottom. Sometimes this is a bit difficult to judge, but if you get it wrong, and the potatoes sprout from the bottom end, simply rub off the sprouts and turn the potato to the correct position.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
The big story this year has been home veg growing. Grow your own has so many real benefits from cost-beating home production to having fresh produce with real home grown flavour and the immense satisfaction of putting something you have grown yourself on the dinner table.
It’s absolutely unbeatable!
