Overview: Turnips are a cool weather crop and can be grown and harvested twice in a year in early spring and early fall. It is a root vegetable with both edible roots and edible stems and leaves and are known as a good substitute for potatoes.

 General Plant Information:

• Common Name: Turnip

• Scientific Name: Brassica rapa subsp. rapa 

• Planting Zone: 2-9

• Plant Type: biennial 

• Pot size: 8-12 inches deep (Doesn't respond well to transfer).

• Days to Germinate: 5-10

• Planting Depth: 0.25- 0.5 inches

• Seed Spacing: 1 inches

• Sun Requirements: Full sun

• Water Requirements: Moderate 1 inch per week

• Plant Size: 2-4 inches

• Days to Harvest: 40-60

• Harvesting Code: Green (easy difficulty)

• Growing Code: White (easy difficulty)

Planting Instructions: 

• Best planted in spring 2-3 weeks before the last frost date.

• till the soil about 12-15 inches deep (if in a pot make sure it's at least 12-15 inches deep).

• Sow seeds directly into soil. (As a general rule root vegetables don't transfer well)

• Plant about a 1/4 - 1/2 inch deep 1 inch apart in rows of 12 to 18 inches apart. (Also can just spread they seeds out and can thin them out later.)

• Water consistently 

Growing Information: 

• Can be grown in both spring and fall (cool weather plant)

• Plant into a neutral soil plot. If your looking for big leaves and less root plant in high nitrogen soil. If your looking for big roots then avoid Nitrogen rich soil.

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Harvesting:

• The leaves can be harvested usually within a month.

• Within 2 months the roots will be ready for Harvest.

• The Autumn crop is known to be sweeter and more tender than the spring crop

• To Harvest seeds let your turnips flower and wait for them to turn brown, then harvest the seed pos and break them open to collect the seeds.

Resources:

Boeckman, C. (2022, May 16). Turnips. Turnip. Retrieved April 13, 2023, from https://www.almanac.com/plant/turnips

Melissa. (2012, June 13). Harvesting turnip seeds. Ever growing farms. Retrieved April 13, 2023, from https://evergrowingfarm.com/2012/06/harvesting-turnip-seeds/