TRG 2012: How to Plant Beets and Spinach in Cell Flats for Transplants

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A method of planting beets and spinach in cell flats. This is one way to grow beets and spinach transplants outdoors for your garden. Get a jump on the season. This is a great way to maximize garden space. Grow transplants! New to Gardening? Check out my 2nd Gardening YouTube Channel dedicated to New Gardeners. The videos are longer and more detailed. Each video presents as if you are new to gardening. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAPRtyacJ69AUdb7o-TZLSw Join My Google+ Gardening Community called Our Tomato & Vegetable Gardens - we are approaching 1000 world-wide gardeners: https://plus.google.com/communities/114956817444053979636 or Link from My YouTube Page.

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I have never tried transplanting beets I will give it a try this year

Did I see that / understand that correctly?? You put a beet seed AND the spinach seeds in the same hole? Or was it just a demonstration of how many spinach seeds to put in the hole and I should be using a tray for spinach and a tray for beets?

The flats work 100%. I am going to use a greenhouse in the early spring for the same reason your stated.

I built a greenhouse this past year. Good idea to jump start the outside garden here in Minnesota!

Now is a great time to start some beets in flats for the next crop. Spinach can be started in the begining of August closer to fall. Use cell flats to start transplants.

Thanks for your vedio and what is top soil ?

i will try that, thanks. keep up the inspirational videos !

Well here is the thing. Any plant going indoors to outdoors will fry and dry out if not slowly acclimated to the sun. I have burned plenty of tomato plants that way. It is about 7 day process to get indoor plants used to the sun. You start with a little sun and slowly work up to more. If the beets dry out within like the first week, it might be due to that. A bad sunburn.

i planted the whole cluster outdoors in chade in a window box, i dont know if it is too much water or little water. i have tried giving them direct sun but they become weak.

Do they dry up indoors? Seedlings sometimes get damping off disease from watering them from above. If they are drying up outdoors, not sure. I know that I grow my transplants outdoors, for beets, and water them from the top. This way the are hardened off for outdoor life. Are you thinning them to 1 plant before you plant them outdoors or are you planting the whole cluster?

good video. i have trouble keeping my beets alive. i grow them indoors so i can transplant them later, when they grow up to be an inch tall the thin stem dries up. any clues to why this happens to me ?

Did they grow straight or were they stunted in anyway?

I've transplanted carrots as well while thinning them in the garden.