sugar beets?

Question

does any of the older generation remember sugar beets,my grandfather use to grow them

Answer 1

lol Haven't thought about them in decades! My grand father also grew them, my grand mother would cook them. I don't remember much of a taste. I do remember she would pickle them in Mason jars, in the winter my mother would eat them. We kids wouldn't, I think they were kind of a sour taste. EEewww.

Answer 2

I remember those beets. LOL I grew up in a farming community and when it was harvest time, the smell was atrocious. The sugar plant smelled even worse.

We used to feed the cattle beet pulp from the sugar plant. They loved it.

The beets might have been stinky, but it was better than the smells coming from the rendering plant. ugh!

Thanks for bringing back a good memory.

Answer 3

Back when I lived in Indiana, I grew lots of things, including beets. I'd get up at 5:30 AM, fix a cup of coffee and go outside to my garden and listen to it grow. Beets were an early crop and I'd harvest and can them. We had beets for the rest of the year.

By the way, corn grows so fast that you really can hear it grow!

Answer 4

There is a sugar beet factory about 15 miles from where I live--they grow masses of them in Idaho. When harvest begins it is always best to beware the beet truck--they seem to be yo yo's and fly everywhere and they are as big as your head.

Answer 5

The only beets I remember, are the beets that my grandmother made & they were Harvard Beets from scratch. That's the only way I will eat beets.

Answer 6

I was born and raised in Florida. So sugar beets - no. But I do remember seeing my neighbors make molasses by raising sugar cane and then boiling it in big vats over an open fire using shovels, like spoons, to remove the skimmings.

Answer 7

Oh gosh yes. My dad and uncle leased land to grow sbs at one time. The plant that converted them to sugar was 6 miles away, when the wind was blowing in our direction it could make your hair stand on end(well almost any way).

Answer 8

Still a major source for processed sugar. Not as good to eat raw like cane is thougfh.

Answer 9

I'm sixteen and I see em growing in the fields around sometimes. Whats the big deal about em? Ya feed em to cattle! I live in Ireland btw

Answer 10

Nope sorry. Only red beets from a can!