During the time of the Romans, people selected the progenitor of the modern beet from a wild Mediterranean plant to use as a leaf vegetable. |
Dark blotches and tunnels in the leaves of beet greens, spinach, and Swiss chard are the work of the spinach leaf miner. |
Sugar beet is being bought for value from sugar beet growers with surplus beet. |
My silver beet is loving the drought, with not a spot of rust anywhere to be seen. |
They were fed on a simple ration of barley, sugar beet pulp, soya and minerals. |
Especially hard hit were the region's fruit farmers and potato and sugar beet growers. |