Turnips & Rutabagas
Prepared by Powell Smith, Lexington County Extension Agent, and Debbie Shaughnessy, HGIC Horticulture Specialist, Clemson University. (New 02/99. Revised 04/03. Image added 01/09.)
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Turnips are usually lifted as needed, but hard frost can damage the roots, so cover the bed in a 15cm (6in) layer of straw or bracken held down with netting or horticultural fleece. Turnips are best used before late winter.
Turnips and Rutabagas - I just can't grow these vegetables in my garden, so do not feel bad if you have the same results. However, I know many gardeners who can and notice that they sow their seeds rather late, usually the middle of July.
Turnips are wonderful roots and greens. Greens are tasty steamed or in salads. Roots are most tender when young.
Turnips can be sown in spring and fall. In mild areas, the fall crop can be left for winter storage in the ground.
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Turnips are another vegetable that improves in flavor with a frost. They can be planted in very early spring or late into fall in southern climates.
Turnips are high in Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Folate, Calcium, Potassium and Copper.
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Turnips are easy to grow in almost any soil, as long as it isn't too wet or too hard. Acidic soils should be limed to a near neutral pH.
Light: Full sun is best.
Moisture:Water your turnip crop deeply with about an inch of water each week.
Relatively obscure in this country, turnips are a staple in many European kitchens.
About This Plant
Turnips mature in about 2 months.
Cabbage, Broccoli, Collards and Cauliflower, plus the less-often-grown Kohlrabi, Mustard Greens, Chinese Cabbage and Turnips, all belong to this family. All are cool-weather vegetables, rich in vitamins A and C and a good source of fiber.
The ripe fruit is refreshing and palatable; it is sometimes used as a sauce; the seeds cannot be detected from capers; it is sometimes preserved in sugar or boiled like turnips. The juice is used to remove freckles; it is also a strong vermifuge.
Turnips tend to bolt when soil becomes dry. Once ground is workable in spring, sow seeds and continue doing so about every 3 weeks until the first of summer or until weather gets too hot at about 3/4 inch deep.
Next, make a conical pile of roots-potatoes, turnips, beets, carrots, etc.-and cover it with a 4" to 6" layer of straw and then a 2" layer of soil.
This ritual included carrying lighted embers from ceremonial bonfires in carved out turnips -- a readily available ember-holder.
Cabbage, cauliflower, radish, brussels sprouts, turnips
various pests
Same general companion profile as all brassica (cabbage, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, etc) ...
The bulb when cooked is reminiscent of turnips. Flower buds are eaten raw or cooked although the pollen may be toxic, & is said to induce vomiting, so opened flowers must be well cooked to break down any toxin; ...
Store without the leafy tops and place in the refrigerator to keep fresh for four to seven days if they are the spring varieties, or two to four weeks if they are winter radishes. The larger varieties, such as the watermelon, are similar to turnips ...
Here you will find information on plants that have stems, roots or leaves which are modified to store nutrients. Included are decorative garden flowers such as tulips, as well as vegetables such as turnips.
The worst turnip pests are the root maggot and the flea beetle; it is also attacked by clubroot fungus. Turnips are classified in the division , class Magnoliopsida, order Capparales, family Cruciferae.
fragilis, with some half-score varieties, is almost exclusively used by market gardeners for bunching greens, turnips and other produce.
Bermuda, introduced from England after England got them from Spain, first recorded in Bermuda in 1851 when 10 boxes were exported, regularly sent by ship to New York in the late 1870s and early 1880s in 10-pound crates or palmetto baskets), turnips, ...
 See also: Turnip, Green, Vegetables, May, Cabbage
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