Beet – Touchstone Gold

$4.25

Description

For years we’ve been nearly foaming at the mouth to add this beloved variety to our catalog. Touchstone gold adds brightness and beauty to any salad, soup or roasted root dish. Their mild, sweetly delicate flavor is preferable to many who deem traditional red beets as too earthy or bitter. An improvement on the older golden beet strains, boasting better germination, root uniformity and color as well as stronger leaf attachment.

Days to Maturity: 60
Latin name: Beta vulgaris
Life cycle for Seed Saving: Biennial

Planting Instructions:
Direct seed Touchstone Gold as soon as soil can be worked. Optimal soil temperature for germination is 55-75°. Planting Depth: 1/2-3/4”. Plant every inch, thin to 2-4”, depending on desired size. Row spacing: 12-24”.

All of our seed is Non-GMO and Certified Organic by Washington State Department of Agriculture. We grow the majority of our varieties here at Deep Harvest Farm on Whidbey Island while we purchase the rest from other small, organic Northwest seed growers. Finally, all of our offerings are open-pollinated (OP) so that you too can save and share seed from these plants!

Additional information

Size

Packet (3.5g, ~200 seeds) – $4.25, 1/2 oz – $10, 1oz – $15, 1/4 lb – $32