Also known as “swedes,” rutabagas are essentially a cross between a turnip and a cabbage. They’re grown for their softball-size, golden-color roots and their greens. Here’s how to plant and grow rutabagas in your garden! About Rutabagas ...
How to Grow Cabbage: Start seeds indoors 4 to 6 weeks before the last frost in spring. Sow seed outdoors when the soil can be worked in spring. Cabbage planting time Sow cabbage seed indoors 5 to 7 weeks before the last frost. Transplant seedlings to the garden when they are 4 to 6 ...
Carrots are among the easiest garden vegetables to grow—and the most bountiful–given the right conditions. Carrot culture is very simple. Sow the seeds rather thickly and thin the plants to 3 to 4 inches apart. If the soil is nutrient-rich and loose, there will be no trouble with root...
Turnips are often confused withrutabagasbecause they are similar, and people like to plant them together. The two root vegetables grow well under the same conditions, but rutabagas take about four weeks longer to mature. In 19th-century Ireland, Halloween jack-o’-lanterns were carved from tur...
This member of the Brassicaceae family is known as being a traditional Thanksgiving side dish. Turnips are so easy to grow and come in different varieties
Unless you are overwinteringyour crop for seed production(a process known as vernalization), you’ll want to harvest your carrots before spring, when they’ll start growing again Once spring starts, the carrots will resume sending energy into the greens, which will grow back. Energy spent on ...
How to store root vegetables If you're looking for produce that will last you a while, root vegetables are where it's at. These include carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, radishes, rutabagas, sweet potatoes, yams, and regular old potatoes. What's great about these varieties is that, ...
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"Hi Caroline. Thanks for sharing this. Yes, skirret is another option for unusual root vegetables. It would be great to grow something with such a history to it too."Ben Vanheems on Sunday 5 April 2015 "I am attempting to grow the salsify in a hyroponics garden for a class project....
You’ve harvested your turnips, carrots, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, rutabagas, and parsnips from your garden, now you’ve only got one problem. How to preserve them? This year we did okay with our carrots, but our turnips went crazy! We have turnips coming out our ears! Mmmm, ...