Turnips are an easy-to-grow cool-season vegetable that produces a crop of cold-hardy, edible greens and a root that can be eaten raw, cooked, or pickled. Turnips are a form of Brassica rapa, the same ...

Like many leafy greens, root veggies, and brassica relatives, turnips are a spring and fall crop, and mature plants can even tolerate a light touch of frost. Check your first and last frost dates in ...

They may not be colorful, vibrant, or particularly interesting vegetables, but learn how to grow turnips and you'll find that these often-overlooked vegetables have a lot to offer. A popular staple ...

Plant transplants of cabbage, celery, collard, kale, kohlrabi, leek, lettuce, mustard, onion, spinach and Swiss chard — or, you can plant seeds of these plants. Root crops, such as beet, carrot, ...

It's time to plant turnip and parsley seeds. Either can be grown in pots or in a regular garden plot. Especially when planting root crops such as turnips, it helps to add expanded shale and compost to ...

Or, you can plant seeds of these plants. Root crops, including beet, carrot, radish, parsnip, rutabaga and turnip, must be grown from seeds sown directly where the plants will grow in the garden.

A couple of weeks ago I received a package from Burpee Seed (burpee.com) containing two fresh white turnips and a package of seeds. What a great way to introduce a new vegetable! The promo literature ...

Q: My grandpa always grew turnips in the garden. I don't know if I even like them, but I'm wondering if they are hard to grow? – R.W., Springfield, Mo. Answered by David Trinklein, horticulture ...

OK, they’re turnips (Brassica rapa). That was easy. This week’s “not-much-of-a-Mystery” Plant is one of the commonest vegetables there is…and I would almost bet that everyone who reads this column has ...

Turnip, also known as shaljam, is an unassuming winter vegetable, that transforms into a nutritional powerhouse. The ...