How BEETS Changed the World - SEED to HARVEST - Garden Documentary

How to grow Beets from Seed to Harvest at home. The Life of beets. We discover the origin and history of beetroot, while I show how I grow my own beetroot in my garden, with tricks for growing it better and faster with organic methods. Garden documentary.

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Created by: Siloe Oliveira

0:00 Introduction - How beets changed the world
01:08 The origin of beetroot and swiss chard
01:40 Beets in roman times as laxative
02:16 Beets as biennials. Saving beet or swiss chard tree
04:02 Sowing beets in homemade soil blocks
05:01 Why people dislike beets - Geosmin
06:08 Planting pre-germinated beet seed
06:48 Mangels as fodder and famine food
07:05 The legend of Rubezahl, German folk tale
10:05 Spacing beets when planting
11:33 How plants store energy
12:17 The story of sugar
14:02 Sugarcane plantations and the social impact
15:12 Mulching beets with grass clippings
15:58 The invention and development of the sugar beet industry
17:47 Abolitionist movement and free labor societies
20:11 Dealing with Beet pest (amaranth beetle, slugs)
22:02 Sugar beet laborers in 19th century Europe
23:09 Japanese American and sugar beets during WWII
25:30 Harvesting beets
27:08 The development of monogerm beet seed. The Savitsky story
29:35 Beets as a peace-making meal in space
31:04 Beets and Health
33:17 Sources and Post Script Message