Which Turnips to Grow: Salad, Storage and Fodder
Turnips split into three practical types, and rutabaga is a fourth, related root, not a turnip variety.
Turnip and Rutabaga: What Actually Differs
Turnip and rutabaga are not two names for the same root. A turnip is its own species, quick to grow and mild when small.
Turnip Greens: The Half of the Crop People Compost
Turnip and rutabaga leaves are edible, nutritious, and in some strains the entire reason a gardener plants the seed.
Thinning Turnips: The Job Nobody Does in Time
Thin turnips and rutabaga as soon as the first true leaves appear, cutting or pinching extra seedlings rather than pulling, and space the survivors…
Keeping Turnips and Rutabaga Through Winter
Turnips and rutabaga both store through winter when the roots go in clean, cold and slightly damp, but the two behave differently.
Why Turnips Are Better in Autumn
A turnip pulled in October tastes like a different vegetable than one pulled in June, and it’s not your imagination.
Why Turnips Fork, and What the Soil Has to Do With It
A forked turnip or a split rutabaga isn’t a plant that went wrong. It’s a root that met something it couldn’t grow through, or that grew too fast in one…
Rotating Turnips: They Are Brassicas
Turnips and rutabaga belong to the same family as cabbage, kale, broccoli, and mustard: Brassicaceae.
How High Can a Hedge Be in Kentucky? What the Law Actually Says
The direct answer is that Kentucky has no statewide hedge height limit. No Kentucky Revised Statute sets a number in feet for how tall a hedge, screen…
Tunnels in the Root: Cabbage Root Maggot
Root maggots are the larvae of a small gray fly that lays its eggs right at the base of turnip and rutabaga plants.