Beetroot
Growing beetroot is easy, giving delicious, round, or sometimes cylindrical, roots that can be boiled, roasted or pickled - and even grated into salads. The colourful young leaves can be picked fresh and used in salads, and mature leaves can be wilted and used like spinach. There's a wide variety of beetroot to grow, with orange, white and pink-stripey ones to choose between.
Carrots
Sweet, tasty and packed with vitamins, carrots are a traditional grow-your-own favourite. They are straightforward to grow from seed (although I will admit they are my nemesis), taking up little space, and can also be grown in containers. Sow small batches regularly from early spring onwards, for harvests almost all year round.
Celeriac
Celeriac is closely related to celery but the edible part is it's swollen root. It has an unusual flavour, a cross between celery, fennel and aniseed. Tastes delicious roasted and served with other root veg and squashes, in soups and stews. It also makes a great alternative to mashed potato. Celeriac is easy to grow but it does require a long growing season. It grows well in heavy soils, when it is kept moist all year and does especially well in poor summers.
Parsnips
Parsnip's flavoursome roots are delicious roasted but can also be added to soups and stews. Although parsnips are full size in around four months or 100 to 120 days, they take a long time to mature, harvest when the roots reach their full size and have been frosted which helps developed their distinctive sweet taste.
Radish
Radish are easy to grow and make a tasty addition to salads, or a crisp and crunchy snack on their own. There are many different types of radish to choose from, both summer and winter varieties. Radishes are great to grow from seed as they're quick to germinate and are ready to harvest within a couple of weeks. Unlike many root vegetables, radishes cannot be left in the ground, as doing so will cause them to become tough and woody.
Swede
Although a member of the brassica family, Swedes are grown for their delicious roots, rather than their leaves. Many confuse them with turnips, and although the two are related, swedes are much sweeter and hardier, and can be harvested later in the year.
Turnip
Turnips may be a bit of an old fashioned veg, but small, young turnips and their green leafy tops are secretly gourmet vegetables.They're one of the less troublesome members of the Brassica family to grow, and should be grown quickly and kept well watered. Harvest them before they get too large for the best flavour. The smaller the roots, the sweeter they are.
Root vegetables to grow from seed
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