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Saturday 31 December 2011 Turnips have always grown well up here, although I haven't grown them well. Every year we plant the turnips, and every year we vow to thin the rows, and every year we look at the garden in the middle of August and realize, with some embarrassment, that we didn't do it. Turnips lucky enough to grow up in a lot of space produce some beautiful looking roots. Next year. Summer 2011 Like many of the other root crops, this suffered from the seed tape disaster. Most of the tape did not come up with seedlings. At the end of June, I replanted most of the turnips with Purple Tops, Hidabeni, and Tokyo Market varieties, but much of it was a wash. Thinning the rows helped enormously, though, as we had many baseball- and softball-sized Purple Top turnips. The Hidebeni were pretty - dark red, oblong root - but they ended up to be woody. We'll try this again next year. |
Tokyo Market turnips. August 2004. |