turnip lovers

hillbille

for you turnip lovers I found a white turnip called white lady, matures in almost half the time and don't get hot and piffy, like a radish. they almost have a sweet taste. seeds are hard to find locally only one feed store in 30 mile radius has them. If you can find them and like turnips give em a try......

grdad45

White Lady? That is really raciest! [}:)]

hillbille

quote:Originally posted by grdad45
White Lady? That is really raciest! [}:)]


better than purple top.......

Junkballer

Never heard of it, how does it taste with pepper sauce sprinkled on it ?

grdad45

Purple top---like a lot of teens I see at the mall.
May have to find some of yours to plant.

Brookwood

I do like turnips! Are the greens any good on the White Lady's?

I sometimes substitute turnips instead of rutabaga's in my pasty recipe just to get more flavor.[:p]

Brookwood

To Quote Pee Wee Herman.....I said LIKE!!

LOVE is much to strong a word for a vegetable![:D]

jltrent

That is good to know.......

Ricci Wright

Never knew anyone could love a turnip. There are so many better things to eat.

BT99

I never ate a turnip...How do you prepare them???

Mobuck

I can tell you how to grow turnips but get all I want in about 2 batches after cooking.
If you want to grow a LOT of turnips, apply about 100# per acre each of phosphate and potash( the P & K of fertilizer components). That's NOT 100# of fertilizer but actually 100# of actual component. I mean that's a LOT of fertilizer but the turnips grow like crazy.

hillbille

quote:Originally posted by BT99
I never ate a turnip...How do you prepare them???


raw, or fried like potatoes, you can pretty much do anything you can do with a potatoe.......

Mobuck

Turnips is poe fokes food.
Grow fast on a small space after many garden crops are finished. High volume, low input source of produce in late summer and fall.

4205raymond

quote:Originally posted by Mobuck
Turnips is poe fokes food.
Grow fast on a small space after many garden crops are finished. High volume, low input source of produce in late summer and fall.

And Winter. Take a pointed shovel dig a hole down about a foot. Line the hole with a thick cover of straw and lay those turnips in there like eggs in a nest. Cover them with more straw and take the dirt you dug out and make a mound over the turnips. When the new year comes dig in the side of mound and pull some out and enjoy fresh turnips. Don't forget to cover hole back up.

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Poe country boy from Central Virginia

Brookwood

Poe![:)] I grew big and strong living on turnips, parsnips, tater's, and rutabaga's. [:p] Many greens harvested off of said plants and meat was fairly a side dish if at all much of the time. We had a root cellar and that is where these roots were stored.

I think I was about ready for 8th grade graduation before I realized that we were monetarily handicapped. [:0]

signed Jethro Brookwood [:D]

He Dog

I like raw turnip, cooked, not at all.

savage170

I had so many turnips growing up I can barely look at one now