Beetroot: selected cultivars: Wodan

Beetroot: Wodan F1

Grown on the allotment in 2004

Medium to large globe roots. Excellent growth characteristics. Noticeably quicker growing than most other cultivars grown on our allotment. Produced broad and sturdy globe roots even when thinning operations were slack.

Wodan had a good rounded flavour in taste tests. It was less sweet than most of the beetroot cultivars we sampled. It was ranked fairly highly.

Woden F1 hybrid was bred by Thompson and Morgan and introduced in their 2004 catalogue. It is a globe beetroot with bright red flesh that can be harvested as baby or mature beets. Mature beets do not go fibrous and store well. Young leaves can be eaten as spinach.