Thinning Beets and A Salad

Beet micro-greens—really just the yield from thinning my beets. Unless you plant mono-germ beets, each seedball/fruit will produce two to four seedlings, which of course won’t work.

It was a warm morning but the garden was still in the shade and it was time to thin the beets.

Thinning beets can be tedious but sharp scIssors help. I select the sturdiest in the seed clump and snip the others with scissors. Sitting on a little garden bench, I snipped away and when I finished It was lunch time.

I selected outer leaves from three different romaine lettuces for the first winter garden salad. I incorporated my beet “micro-greens” in the salad, apples from this week’s harvest and red peppers from the summer. Add in toasted almonds and dried cranberries, EVOO and lime juice and I had lunch.

And this is what I’ll be waiting for.