Yellow Globe is the favorite yellow fall turnip, though some persons grow yellow rutabagas and call them turnips.
Rutabagas are distinguished from turnips by their smooth, bluish foliage, long root, and yellow flesh.
Rutabagas Rutabagas have wonderfully aggressive root systems and are capable of growing continuously through long, severe drought.
I suspect that farther north, where evaporation is not so severe and midsummer rains are slightly more common, if a little irrigation were used to start rutabagas about July 1, a decent unwatered crop might be had most years.
Rutabagas break the winter monotony of potatoes; leeks vitally improve winter salads, and leeky soups are a household staple from November through March.
If I start rutabagas in early April and space them about 2 to 3 feet apart in rows 4 feet apart, by October they're the size of basketballs and look pretty good; unfortunately, I harvest a hollow shell full of cabbage root maggots.
Then the rains came and the rutabagas began growing rapidly.
The leeks and rutabagas could be reasonably productive located farther from the sprinklers, but no vegetables benefit more from abundant water or are more important to a self-sufficient kitchen.
We also discovered that the mounds of dirt in fields near the road covered stacks of potatoes or rutabagas to keep them from freezing.
Rutabagas and turnips will give the milk an offensive taint if fed freely at any other time than just after the milk has been withdrawn, but that is not true of mangel wurtzel, sugar beets, or carrots.
Any kind of field roots are good, but mangels, sugar beets, and rutabagas are the most suitable because of their good keeping qualities.
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