Everwilde Farms - 1 oz Golden Detroit Beet Seeds - Gold Vault Bulk Seed Packet

These are deep yellow beets that have a mild, sweet, rich flavor and will not bleed like red beets. Try the young leaves in salad, and the mature leaves cooked like greens. The beets mature in about 55 days and does well in storage. Beets seem to have originated in the Mediterrenean region, where people grew them for thousands of years. Later, beets grew in Germany and Holland and were used as cattle fodder; they were later imported to England for this purpose, but the poor began to raise them for an affordable food source. American colonists later brought them to the New World, where they became a commonly enjoyed food both for their roots and their greens. According to historians, George Washington experimented with beets, cross-pollinating them to create new varieties.