Thanks for the reminders about turnips.
I remember that my grandmother, mom and aunts used turnips.
I have always been a veggie person but haven’t seen a turnip in decades.
I don’t recall seeing them in the grocery stores or at the roadside veggie stands.
Maybe they are there and I’m just passing them by - I’ll have to look a little closer.
I’ll get some seeds and see if I can get them to grow in our sandy soil.
So far, they are the easiest to grow veggie I ever met.
After I dug up my garlic, I well composted and manured the bed and was going to let it go fallow until next spring. Then I noticed some *weeds* growing in it but because I had so much else to do I figured I’d get them later when they were bigger and easier to pull up.
Well, I got back to them and it turned out they were the biggest turnips I had ever grown. I’ve found them growing at random everywhere. Since they don’t really grow underground, the soil type doesn’t seem to make much difference. However, if your soil is sandy, I’d think it would be worth fertilizing.
My favorite use for turnips so far is beef barley soup.
I’m actually more partial to Parsnips, so try some of those, too! :)