Notes
Candy-stripe rings. Seed is a corky cluster — thin to 1. Greens are a second SKU. Direct sow; transplant only if spring is late.
Cultivars / Root crops
Chioggia
Beet · Beta vulgaris
DTM
55 d
69 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
4
4 in in-row
Density
12
plants / bed-ft
Yield
3
bunches / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$12.15
$4.50 / bunch
Propagation
- Method
- Direct or transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 28 d
- Germination
- 8 d
- Germ temp
- 45°F – 85°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 4
- In-row
- 4 in
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
- Plants / linear ft
- 12
- Plants / 50 ft
- 600
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 55 d
- Holding
- 14 d
- Occupancy
- 69 d
- Multicut
- no
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.15
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- bunch
- Units / bed-ft
- 3
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 3 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.50 / $4.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.95 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 74
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.1 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.6 / 0.2 / 0.9 lb
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-04
- First harvest
- 2026-04-28
- Successions that fit
- 4 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 19 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 706 seeds · 600 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $337.50 / $607.50
Companions
onion · lettuce · cabbage
Avoid
pole bean