ha, you are a beetroot evangelist.
Down allotment earlier, our first four short rows of beetroot are all sprouted and first leaves forming, rocket just showing first shoots, lots of our short peas up and sprouting....broad beans flourishing...
Dan, if your parents are growing beetroot down their allotment, try and get a few of the leaves for salads, lovely they are...
Wild garlic has all suddenly exploded down here too Dan in the last week or so, the young leaves are fucking lush in salads, the older leaves make great soups, the flowers are lovely too.....they should be comin up round your way to I'd have thought about now....get on it!