Most commonly potatoes, sometimes carrots, beetroots, onions, garlic and marrows were cultivated in the allotments, and in the south melons and watermelons.
The price of beetroot is at present exceptionally high.
The beetroot goes to the factory, and the pulp is dried and stored and used for feeding cattle, and so on.
If that be so, you can measure the success of the scheme by the smallness of the amount of beetroot it produces.
In 1965, case law provided that a substantial sandwich accompanied by pickles and beetroot was a table meal.
The farmers in my constituency do not grow beetroot, but they produce milk very largely.
There was little or nothing to buy in the ordinary shops except of course for bottled beetroot.
They begin with the beetroot, and they produce fully refined sugar.
