How To Grow Turnips?

Turnips can be sow in the spring, summer, and last of the winter, and they are harvest late  spring, all summer,and fall, also the first of the winter. It takes six to ten weeks to harvest. Turnips are suitable to be planted in beds and containers. I will need to plant thirty plants in a nine feet roll and I will need to plant ten plants in each containers. Turnips can be grown for their leaves which is called turnip tops. The roots of turnips are sweet and tender. Turnips will provide several rounds of tasty leafy greens through the leaner months, which would make it real good.

Getting started

Turnips like to have a bunch of organic matter like well-rotted compost or manure in the soil, so this needs to be added to the soil the season before you plant the turnip. Turnips likes to have moist and well-drained soil.
Four Varieties of Turnips

1. Purple Top Milan- it should be pulled early when they are two inch wide. The roots of this variety has a sweet flavor.
2. Snowball- this type of radish who has all white roots which are sweet and tender. You will need to take these radishes out of the garden at six weeks.
3. Primera- the roots of this one has purple tops and they need to be pulled small. The flesh of these turnips is sweet and tender.

Atlantic- has purple and white roots and they can be harvested at a young age or I can leave them in the ground to mature.

Sowing under cover- Put trays with seed compost, level the soil, and water well. Let the soil drain real well and then make a 3/4 inch deep hole in each cell. Sow four seeds in each hole, then cover over, and water real well. This needs to be done over and over until I have the trays finish. Fill large containers  with compost, and make 3/4 inch deep drill. The seeds can be sowed thinly along the base, or I can sow a few seeds every four inches. Then I will need to thin the seedlings to one seedling per hole or cell or I can have  one every four inches; harden off, and then plant them out when they are large enough to handle it.

Sowing outside

I can sow my turnip seeds directly outside from mid-spring and late summer. This is the way that I sow my turnip's seeds all the time.. Before I can plant my turnip seed, I will need to work  up my soil and make sure I can  get all of the weeds out of my garden spot. After I do this, I will need to add high nitrogen granular fertilizer. Rake level to a fine tilt, then make drills 3/4 inch deep and put them nine to twelve  inches apart.

Routine care

During the hot, dry summer, there could be a problem with flea beetles, so I will need to cover the drills with a mesh that is insect-proof. Always keep all of the plants well watered and fed as they are growing. If my plants are in light soils and containers. they need to be fed occasionally with a high nitrogen liquid fertilizer so I can get bigger yields.

Weeding

Turnips plants  need to be kept weed-free since weeds will compete with the plants for light and nutrients, and weeds may have disease. To get weeds away from my plants, I will need to do this by hand, so I do not damage my plants, and I use a hoe to remove weeds between the rows.


Harvesting

I have fast-growing summer plants, I will need to harvest the turnips when they reach the size of a golf ball, because if I do not do this and let them grow longer, the turnips will have a woody texture. Harder winter types can be left to grow larger so they can be lifted in the fall when I need them.