Grow your own BERTIE
Using the instructions below, you will be able to grow your own BERTIE in your school.
To fit in with the school year, pots will be harvested in July, but in the field, BERTIE will be allowed to grow until the autumn (ie the time normal sugar beet are harvested)
Instructions will be added to this list during the growing season, so remember to come back to check for the latest growing hints and tips regularly!
Growing Instructions
- Sowing sugar beet seeds
- thinning out
- Feeding your beet
- Weeds, pests and diseases
- Harvesting and measuring your beet