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 ...

Root vegetables are a great thing to have in the garden during our cool season. Since much of the plant is underground, and ...

Track maturity dates and harvest turnips early—overgrown roots lose flavor and texture. Both roots and leafy greens are edible, with some varieties grown just for greens. Pick young turnips for mild ...

Soil-cross time-lapse of growing a golden ball turnip from a seed to harvest. A turnip seed was sowing into moist soil. It ...

Vegetables grown for their underground parts have tasty roots, tubers, rhizomes, or bulbs. These structures are packed with carbohydrates and water for the plants, and deliciousness for us. These ...

As Burns Night approaches, many will be preparing the traditional feast of haggis, accompanied by the essential ‘n’. For ...

At last, It’s spring in the Bay Area. The sun is finally coming out, on occasion, and the flowers are starting to bloom. The warmer days ahead provide a perfect opportunity to get outside and grow ...

Here’s a tale of two turnips, one big, one small. One a quick crop, one slow. One for fresh eating, the other for winter storage. When I was growing up, storage turnips were the only kind I knew. They ...