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Mangold in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Beta Vulgaris

 

Mangold

Mangold - or Mangel-wurzel - is a fodder feed crop. It has large white, yellow or orange-yellow swollen roots and beetroot-like leaves.

 
plant Features
  • Mangold likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Mangold likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Mangold is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Mangold likes free draining and fertile

    Free draining and fertile

 
plant information

Common name

Mangold

Latin name

Beta Vulgaris

type

Vegetable

family

Amaranthaceae

ph

5.5 - 8.5 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Mangold likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Frost

    Mangold is a little frost hardy: 32f (0°c)

    A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

  • Soil

    Mangold likes free draining and fertile

    Free draining and fertile

  • Water

    Mangold likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant
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    When to harvest

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Mangold is 0.50meters x 0.40meters 0.50 M 0.40 M

Beta Vulgaris

Mangold - or Mangel-wurzel - is a fodder feed crop. It has large white, yellow or orange-yellow swollen roots and beetroot-like leaves.


Propagation by seed

From Early Spring TO Mid Summer

Beetroot seeds can be sown any time from early Spring to mid Summer. Make a shallow trench in manured soil and either sow the seeds in pairs every 4", and then remove the weakest of the pair when they are about 2" high, or sow more thickly, and, when the plants are the size of golf balls, thin to leave one plant every 4", and use the thinnings in salads. Sow every 4 weeks for a succession of crops. Make an earlier start by sowing in the greenhouse in late Winter, and planting out in early Spring

 

Planting

From Early Spring TO Mid Spring

Plant out seedlings grown in the greenhouse into well-manured soil, in rows 12" apart, and the plants 4" apart.

 
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