Salad turnips

I've never heard of these before, but boy are they good! They look like white radishes, and they taste like radishes might if they weren't hot. Or like tiny mild kohlrabi. Little crunchy veggie balls. Yum!

Thanks! I tend to have bad luck with root crops (my kohlrabi, carrots and radishes have all failed), but then, I've never tried turnips.

My problem with the kohlrabi was that critters ate it.

I can do at lease one allium- chives. They've grown in my lawn.

I have the same problem with parsnips, Melissa. I used to tell people that venison was how I got to eat my parsnips.

Overwintering in the ground is a fairly common practice throughout North America, Rod. Of course, the further north one goes the thicker the mulch layer has to be. Down here we can usually get away with no mulch, or just a couple of inches, whereas in New England they measure it in feet.

I've not overwintered carrots because, as noted above, I've not had a lot of success growing them. But I've overwintered turnips and parsnips (when the deer leave me some). And my winter radishes remain in the ground, and get harvested as needed.