The Makkelijke Moestuin in 3 minutes

The Makkelijke Moestuin in 3 minutes

Here you'll read how, with our system, you can harvest up to 5x more than from a regular vegetable garden. On just a few square meters, all natural, pesticide-free, and with almost no work.

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Makkelijke Moestuin vs traditional vegetable garden

1. Makkelijke Moestuin vs traditional vegetable garden

Giving each plant enough light, air, water, space, nutrients, and attention is pretty tricky. Not in a Makkelijke Moestuin: there, it happens all by itself.

 About us

2. About us

Why Jelle started Makkelijke Moestuin, how it grew into a movement, and why we work differently from most companies.

 The garden bed

3. The garden bed

The garden bed is the heart of the Makkelijke Moestuin system. Its smart setup gives your plants almost everything they need from the start.

 The soil mix

4. The soil mix

In a Makkelijke Moestuin, you don't use garden soil but a special growing mix in which all your plants thrive.

 The water reservoir

5. The water reservoir

Why a smart water reservoir helps your plants grow better while saving you time and effort: how it works, and how and when to water.

6. The sowing system

In a Makkelijke Moestuin, you sow in 30 x 30 cm squares instead of rows, placing each plant in the right position with the right spacing.

Heat Today will be hot in the south of the Netherlands: up to 30 degrees! Check whether your reservoir is still full, whether the mix is still moist, shade vulnerable plants around midday, and wait with sowing until it cools down.

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Description

Our beets are beautifully round and deep red. Great for growing in summer and fall. They keep for a long time after harvesting. The young leaves are great in salads too.

Specifications

Sowing time: mid-April - August
Height: 20-35 cm
Weight: 2 grams

In the app

Sowing: 16 April - 15 July

Level 1

seeds sown

Level 2

first seedlings

Level 3

thinned seedlings

Level 4

small plants

Level 5

first leaf harvest

Level 6

first beetroot harvest

Level 7

harvesting

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  • The app helps you with almost everything you do in your vegetable garden: sowing, tending, and harvesting.
  • If something goes wrong, the app tells you what steps to take.
  • If that doesn’t work, you can ask us for advice.
  • If that still doesn’t help, we’ll look for other solutions together. Until we get it right.

Vitamins and minerals in beets

Beets are super healthy. They're packed with vitamins: especially vitamin C and folic acid. They also contain a lot of minerals like manganese, iron, copper, potassium, and magnesium. 

The red coloring is great for healthy blood vessels and can help lower blood pressure. 

Fun fact: you can also eat the beet leaves. They're full of carotene and minerals.
Beetroot is very healthy
A super healthy harvest

Beetroot

This variety produces beautiful, round, deep-red beetroot and is slightly sweeter than most others. It is ideal for summer and autumn growing and stores well. The young leaves are delicious in salads.
  • Variety: Monty RZ
  • Family: root vegetables
  • Plants per square: 9
  • Height: 25 to 35 cm
  • Sowing time: mid-April to mid-July
  • Sowing depth: 1 to 1.5 cm
  • Germination: 5 to 7 days at 12 to 18°C
  • Time to harvest: from 9 to 10 weeks
  • Sunlight: the more sun, the sweeter the beetroot
  • Packet contents: about 85 seeds, enough for 4 to 5 squares
Freshly harvested beetroot from a Makkelijke Moestuin
Freshly harvested beetroot

What do you need to sow and grow beets?

Besides the seeds, you need:
Harvesting beetroot from an MM-Hero raised bed
Beetroot from an MM-Hero raised bed

How do you sow and grow beets?

This beetroot is included in the free Makkelijke Moestuin app. Use it and you will get guidance from seed to harvest.

Every vegetable goes through several stages, which we call levels.

The app tells you exactly what to do at each level and regularly asks you to check whether your plants are ready for the next one.

So you do not need to know how to grow beetroot successfully before you start.

But if you would like to read ahead, here is what the whole process looks like.

Sowing beetroot with help from the Makkelijke Moestuin app

Level 1: Sowing beets

Level 1: Sow beetroot

Loosen the mix in a square in the middle of your raised bed, then sow as follows:

  1. make 9 holes in the square, no deeper than 1 cm

  2. put 1 to 2 seeds in each hole

  3. carefully close the holes

Depending on the weather and the time of year, you will see the first green shoots after about 10 days.

Beetroot seeds are small clusters
Beet seeds

Level 2: Beet seedlings

Level 2: Beetroot seedlings

As soon as you see the first seedlings, you know things are going well. They probably won't all come up at once, but give it another week.

Then it's time for the next level.

Level 3: Thinning your beets

Level 3: Thin out your beetroot seedlings

When several seedlings come up in each spot that you sowed, choose the best ones and remove the rest: that's called thinning out. It might sound harsh, but it's necessary. The remaining plants need enough room to grow. You'll be glad you did it.

Here's how: take a pair of scissors, leave the biggest and prettiest seedling per hole, and cut off the others along the soil mix. Never pull them up like a weed. That can damage the roots of your remaining plants.

If you see spots where nothing came up, sow a few more seeds. Beets - like carrots and radishes - can't be transplanted.
Beet seedlings in need of thinning
These beet seedlings need to be thinned out

Level 4: Caring for your beet plants

Level 4: Care for your beetroot plants

After a week or 2, your seedlings will become small plants. You hardly need to do anything: if the weather's dry, give them some water and remove the odd dead or yellow leaf. Easy 🙂
Small beet plants grow after just a couple weeks
Small beet plants

Level 5: Harvesting beet leaves

Level 5: Harvest beet leaves

About 4 weeks after sowing, you can harvest the leaves for salads.

Harvest a third of the leaves at most: the plant needs the rest to make the beet grow. Also, always leave the growth core: that's the center of the plant where new leaves come in.
Beet leaves: delicious in salads
Beet leaves: delicious in salads

Level 6: Harvesting beets

Level 6: Harvest beetroot

About 8 to 9 weeks after sowing at the earliest, you'll see your first beets. They usually stick out a little above the soil mix. 

When they're about the size of a ping-pong ball, they're ready to harvest. They won't all grow the same: some grow faster than others. Harvest the largest beets first, so that the rest can continue to grow.

Keep watering them regularly. This helps prevent the beets from getting woody.
Harvest the largest beets first and leave the rest to grow in your square foot patch
Harvest the largest beets first and leave the rest to grow

What do you use beets for?

Most people only eat the beetroots. You can boil them, stew them or roast them in the oven. Raw beets are even healthier. You can grate them through a salad or enjoy them in a smoothie.

Young leaves are delicious raw in salads. Older beet leaves are good in stews, stir-fry dishes, or pasta.

The possibilities are almost endless. How about some latkas? 
Beet latkes: Jewish potato pancakes with beets
Beet latkes: Jewish potato pancakes with beets

The last levels

The next levels

During the next level, keep harvesting the beetroot until it is all gone.

Beetroot copes well with cold, so you can leave it in place for a long time in autumn. A little frost even makes it sweeter.

In the final level, empty the square or your MM-Mini and prepare it for the next vegetable.
Full-grown beets can be left in the kitchen garden for a long time
Full-grown beets can be left in the kitchen garden for a long time

So: ready to grow beets yourself?

I'll bet you are 😉  Our red beets are super tasty and easy to grow. All you need is some patience.

Plus: with our app and materials, it's almost impossible to fail.

Order your beet seeds here or get started with a complete starter kit:
Complete seed pack