RECIPE: Herb-Roasted Beets with Blue Cheese
Enjoy the sweet, earthy flavors of roasted beets combined with the warmth of rosemary, and the tangy bite of blue cheese.
Who doesn't love warm roasted beets in the Fall, or sweet pickled beets in the Summer? You can easily grow beets in the EarthBox® Root & Veg gardening system and enjoy them any time of the year!
These herb-roasted beets make for an unexpected delicious side to dinner, or can be mixed with greens and served as a salad or appetizer.
RECIPE: Herb-Roasted Beets with Blue Cheese
Serves 6-8
What You'll Need:
- 12 small / 8 medium beets
- 4 Tbsp. pure olive oil
- 2 tsp. fresh thyme leaves, minced
- 3 stems fresh rosemary
- 1½ tsp. sea salt, plus another ½ tsp.
- ½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper
- 2 oz. blue cheese or feta cheese, cubed or crumbled
Let's Get Cooking:
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Preheat the oven to 375° degrees. Trim leaves off roots and wash beets under cold water. Cut the tops off and carefully peel each beet.
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Cut small beets in half, and medium ones in quarters.
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Place the cut beets in a glass baking dish and toss with the olive oil, thyme, and sea salt. Place stems of rosemary in-between cut beets and cover with foil.
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Roast for 45 minutes, turning once halfway through. Increase temperature to 400° and remove foil.
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Continue roasting for another 10-15 minutes. Remove from oven and discard rosemary stems.
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If desired, drizzle additional olive oil over top. Sprinkle with cheese, season with salt and pepper; serve warm.
Optional serving suggestion: Mix with field greens, add chopped walnuts and drizzle a balsamic glaze to serve as a salad.
Enjoy!
If I plant a blueberry bush in the Root and Veg Earthbox, what is the method and schedule to replenish fertilizer? What about replacing the plastic cap as it inevitably wears out? How would one do this without disturbing the plant too much or making a huge hole in the next plastic cap to fit down over the bush?
I’d love to also know the same for planting blackberry bushes in the EarthBox Original?
You'd follow our instructions for the initial set up, except do not add dolomite to the blueberry bush. When you have to replace the cover, the only way for these plants is to create a big hole in the cover and then tape it back up after you have it in place. We'd recommend adding another pound of our 7-7-7 fertilizer (or another equivalent, slow-release fertilizer) every 3-4 months. That generally lasts 1 growing season, which for the majority of crops grown in the EarthBox is no more than 120 days. Blueberries and blackberries are one of the few perennials that can be successfully grown in the EarthBox.
Which size is best for blueberries the orginal size? Or the deep root n veggie size?
Can nursery recommended acidic soil/ Azelia soil be used in earthboxes for blueberries?
You can grow blueberries in either of those EarthBox sizes, though we recommend the Root & Veg since its depth is more conducive to the plant. You can forgo using dolomite with blueberries, but ensure the pH is somewhere between 4.5-5.5. We still recommend following our growing media recommendations listed here: https://earthbox.com/learning-center/recommended-growing-media
I have my SEASCAPE Day-neutral strawberry seeds in hand. These will be planted indoors, in a grow tent, under LED quantum panels in the EarthBox. I have never planted strawberries of any kind, so Im eager to get this party started. Will provide updates. Too bad we can't attach pics.
~Kbore
NEWS FLASH from Kbore about Seascape seeds: Hybrid strawberry seeds are NOT true to the variety, if they sprout at all. I may have seascape seeds in hand (rip-off) but they will not produce the same plant as the seed donor. To grow the true variety, you must have live/ dormant plant starts from that variety.
On the subject of plant starts, it's too hot to ship live plants in the middle of July (in Zone 6A where I live), so don't expect to buy strawberry seedlings mail-order: It's not going to happen.
Looks like mid-September-ish for me. As the late Tom Petty wrote: " Waiting is the hardest part".
~Kbore