Best time to plant beetroot in Mount Gambier
Beta vulgaris
Also called beet, table beet, garden beet, red beet, golden beet
Sow beetroot in Mount Gambier in Sep to Apr.
Beetroot is a root vegetable grown for its edible taproot, which is sorted by colour into red and golden types. It can be roasted, steamed, boiled, pickled or simply eaten raw, and the leafy tops are also used as beet greens. Swiss chard and sugar beet belong to the same subspecies.
When to sow in Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier, SA is in the cool zone. Its months for beetroot apply here without a frost adjustment.
Matches local guides.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Mount Gambier
Frost usually arrives in Mount Gambier around mid May and finishes by late October. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as mid April or as late as late November, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Finishes in a season and stays within its space, so it suits most plots.
Growing details
- How to start
- Sow directly in the bed
- Sowing depth
- 2.5cm
- Plant spacing
- 10cm
- Row spacing
- 10cm
- Height
- 25cm
- Germination
- About 20 days
- Time to harvest
- 70 days from sowing
- Frost
- Semi-hardy, protect from hard frost
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- biennial, usually grown as an annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.