(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 years back, sweet and nutty with never a hint of oxalic aftertaste, it again received high praise from our tasters more recently. Also a 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. Old variety; its name hints of 19th-century origins when beets were known as blood turnips. Selected around 1840 from the French variety Crapaudine for darkest-colored leaves. An improved strain with nice dark foliage, tender and sweet. ③
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