Everwilde Farms - 1 oz Early Wonder Beet Seeds - Gold Vault Bulk Seed Packet

Early Wonder is an excellent beet for greens or bunching. This early variety has high-quality greens that are great for the home garden and suitable for canning. Flattened globe shaped roots are dark purplish-red in color and mature in about 50 days. 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. S. D. Woodruff & Sons introduced the Early Wonder beet in 1911, advertising it as "the Arlington Strain of Crosby's Egyptian Beet."