botanical plate
beet
beet
Beet
Timing everywhere hangs on one number: the local start of the workable season. Enter your town for exact dates where you garden.
Days to maturity
50–70 d
Frost
half-hardy
Soil temp
≥ 7 °C
How beet timing shifts by place
Southern-hemisphere places mirror the calendar — their season straddles the new year. Equatorial highlands have no frost at all, so the limiting factor becomes rainfall, not cold. See beet dates for your place →