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2186BB Bull’s Blood Beet (60 days) Open-pollinated. Prized for its spectacular leaves, not its rough flattened globe-shaped roots. Runaway winner of the 26 varieties in our beet greens trial, sweet with never a hint of oxalic aftertaste. Also clear winner in appearance, with large glossy reddish-purple leaves. No bull, it holds quality all summer, with color intensifying as it grows, especially under cool conditions in fall or under winter cover. Bull’s Blood is Eliot Coleman’s red leaf of choice for winter harvest salad mixes (see p. 230 of The Winter Harvest Handbook #9876). Old variety; its name hints of nineteenth-century origins when beets were known as blood turnips. Selected around 1840 from the old French variety Crapaudine for darkest-colored leaves.  |
