Growing and cooking beets

Here's your second chance to plant these nutritional powerhouses this year.

A mid-summer Golden beet harvest. (Jessica Damiano)

Hello, friends!

I like to plant at least one new crop every year so that I can learn first-hand its needs and culture and the minutia of dealing with any issues that may arise. This year, I added Thai long beans, Chinese mustard greens and pak choy to my garden, and last week I harvested my first-ever be…