Red beetroot

The beetroot is a deep-rooted and therefore largely drought-resistant plant. Their tubers - platy, spherical, pear-shaped or cylindrical - are red, yellow or white. The weight of the tubers is 100-600 g. Their red colour is due to the high concentration of the nitrogenous glycoside betanin and a certain amount of anthocyanin.

The red colour is due to the high concentration of the nitrogenous glycoside betanin and a certain amount of anthocyanin.

Cultivation - Origin

Just a few kilometres from the Danube lies Rust in the Tullnerfeld. A small place but an oasis for vegetable growing. Vegetables have been grown here for many generations.

Such is the case on the farm of Michael Bauer.

The wind blows over the leaves of the cabbage, a speciality of the farm, but many other vegetables also thrive on the fertile and deep soils. Pumpkins in all colours, courgettes in green and yellow, various turnips, leeks and green beans..... and every conceivable type of cabbage vegetable.

The farm is run as a "mixed farm". Arable farming, livestock farming and market gardening thus complement each other positively.

A natural cycle is created and forms the basis for near-natural agriculture.

We live with and from nature, every day.