I am in west central Illinois to much change in weather is affecting germination on early planting. My April 3 took 4 weeks to germinated. My april 27 planting germinated in 4 days

I have seeds that I actually started on the wet towels... Only 30 percent gave me any sings of life. And even those died, after I planted them and they came up. So I started new ones in 6 pack cells. Putting 3-4 seeds in each cell. Again, only 30 % of cells came up. Waiting to see what happened now. Bad seeds, I believe.

I planted Cylindra and Early Wonder beet seeds on April 26th and saw today that most of them are up. Give them some more time.

Rodney

Still minimal germination on my beet patch. Starting to worry it's no beets for me this year.

it took nearly 3 weeks for my golden beets to germinate, I was positive they werent coming up then I started seeing the seedlings pop up

lolear, why don't you plant some more beet seeds now? They are more likely to germinate now that the temps are getting warmer.

I think that a slug or critter might have eaten them right after they popped out of the soil, though. Beets are one of the few vegetables that have never given me problems. They grow just about anywhere in my yard, so long as the weeds are kept down until they sprout.

I am in the western burbs, I had the beet germinate, but no action from the radishes that I seeded at the same time :( This cold weather and rain is not helping the plants at all!

Maybe bad seeds? Or very acidic soil? Cool weather and all, they should be up and running. I remember once I had a 100% failure because I covered the beet seeds with pine straw, partially composted.

Beets have ALWAYS grown well for me. This year--nothing. They actually shriveled up and died. Cannot figure out what happened.

Just plant some more seeds. You can plant beets into early July to have ready for harvest by fall. Some years beets do well and other years, nada. I had planted a few seeds under cover and very few have come up.

Keski

Almost all my beets came up, There was 1 year I had nothing, Just can't explain it, Just like others said replant them.

I've never had any trouble with beets before, even in cold wet years. My soil is slightly more alkaline, I did not use any mulch but did have a row cover on for the first few weeks. At this point I have minimal/ sporadic germination. There are 3 different varieties of seeds, some new some not, so I doubt it is bad seed. As I alsways do, I laid down some sluggo when i planted, so I don't think that slugs got to them...

So my question at this point is: Do I have time to start over with beets? I thought they were kind of long season...I can always use the space for something else...

Thanks!

You've got plenty of time to replant. At around 50-60 days to mature they are certainly not long season and you should be able to get at least two different beet crops per year (one planted in spring for summer harvest and one planted in mid to late summer for fall harvest).

Rodney