i planted lots of things in the first raised bed that didnt come up this year. an entire row of sugar beets, an entire row of rutabagas. of both of those rows, only one sugar beet came up. and while it was growing i couldnt tell if it was a sugar beet or rutabaga. i'm not familiar enough with their large foliage to tell the difference. it wasnt until i pulled it up this fall that i knew it was a sugar beet.
but only one wasnt enough to go to the trouble of boiling down and trying to make sugar. so i gave it to sweetpea thinking she might like the greens.
its rather huge.
sweetpea investigated it
nibbled a bite or two, and then ignored it.
after it was ignored, i decided to peel it, make it more edible for sweetpea. the sugar beet was pretty hard.
the peeled bits she nibbled on
but didnt eat very much of it
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