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 thrive in cooler weather, and many gardeners don't realize that this also makes them perfect for fall planting and extended harvesting. "Fall gardening not only takes advantage of warm ...

“Turnip is an underappreciated and underused fall vegetable crop,” said David Trinklein, horticulture state specialist for University of Missouri Extension. To help home gardeners learn to love the ...

It’s a bit late to plant turnips, but late summer or early fall will afford gardeners another opportunity. Turnips, like their cousins the collards, prefer cool weather, so early spring or early fall ...

Spring is the time to start planning and preparing for the upcoming growing season, even in colder climates. Spring cleaning for gardens includes cutting back dead foliage, but leaving some stems for ...

Planting turnip seeds has become a fall tradition even though I can’t say I really enjoy the harvest a little later in the year. I started with this project once I realized turnips were about the only ...