still harvesting turnips

larry@stinescorners · Jan 6, 2013

I kicked these out from under the snow yesterday, I know my turnip harvesting is getting to be somewhat of a joke! I just think it is great learning what things produce well and keep a long time. I just want to learn about these things. It is fun for me.I dont think it will make much difference in my lifetime,but maybe my daughter should watch old dad a little bit.., she might be glad to know some of these things .

twostepn2001 · Jan 6, 2013

I don't see nothing funny about your turnips Larry. Looks good to me. Did you save the tops to cook too? Turnip greens sure are tasty...

DeltaRed · Jan 6, 2013

In cold hi altitude Gunnison,Colorado where nothing but grass and a few root 'crops' will grow,my FIL used to grow 'truckloads' of em.He loved em!

larry@stinescorners · Jan 6, 2013

the tops are gone, but you actually have to kick the turnip to get it loose,if it gets a little colder,then they will be done too,Not bad for jan to get something fresh with no chemicals! The seed for turnips is not expensve,and I prepapare the soil,brodcast the seed by hand out of an old spice shaker bottle around Aug 6 and hope for the best! No thinning, weeding ,cultivating,fertilizer,chemicals,I dont irrigate either,so it is a very resonable crop to grow, They have grown big some years,and not so big some years,but there is always plenty

SweetFeet · Jan 6, 2013

Larry@stines,

I'm surprised the ground has not frozen. You must stay a lot warmer in PA than MN.

Your turnups sure look good. We like 'em. We like most any vegetable as long as they are not over-cooked.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 6, 2013

I love a good turnup with a meal... be careful of the snow snakes when playing in the snow

Tom from Ontario · Jan 6, 2013

Turnips were/are quite important in a garden. Around here potatoes were sometimes hit by blight and for the pioneers, turnips filled the space.

paul · Jan 6, 2013

We got several Polaris Ranger loads of them in December yet for the cattle. Was kinda fun to kick them loose.

Paul

DoubleR · Jan 6, 2013

I watch the movie, "War Horse" over the weekend. The setting I beleive it was Irland or Scotland during World War 1. The guy was counting on his turnip crop to pay the yearly morgage on his farm. Made me think of you.

Billy C. · Jan 6, 2013

How do you people up north cook them? Here in Miss. we usually boil them, add some bacon drippings, salt, pepper or sometimes add them to the cooking greens. In fact, I have some cooked for lunch now along with a pot of greens and cornbread made from home-ground cornmeal.

jbp · Jan 6, 2013

Turnips are good raw with a little salt sprinkled on, cooked with butter , salt and black pepper. They are very good for target practice also, you don't have to clean up the mess as they self destruct on impact. Joe

ray hofstetter · Jan 6, 2013

Larry
I know I've overdone it on the turnip jokes,
but what else can I razz you about?
You take and post awesome pictures and there's no way
we can make fun of those.
Like Rusted Nuts has to put up with Amish
jokes and Lyle with sawmill jokes, I don't know what else
to kid you about. Wish I could grow turnips like that!
Sorry,....,

larry@stinescorners · Jan 6, 2013

Dont be sorry,I said that comment because I think its funny too! I think its great to joke around!

McBride · Jan 6, 2013

I like them baked with a brown mustard and brown sugar sauce.

We leave a couple hundred in the ground for the deer. They love them too!!!

RusselAZ · Jan 6, 2013

mulch them with about 6 inches of straw(in your area), In Kansas we used about 12 inches, anyway you can have good turnips until the new radishes are ready.

Fried turnips with fried corn meal mush and life is good.

RusselAZ · Jan 6, 2013

My uncle and family had a draw running through a pasture. Years and years ago his father in laws family had planted fruit trees in it (dutch descendants) and they had lots of fruit. Every year they also planted turnips like you did adn I swear to God, some of them were as big as soccer balls and good all the way in, (for the most part).

ShadetreeRet · Jan 6, 2013

Remember the comic strip "Li'l Abner"? One of Mammy Yokams specialties was "turnips au gratin". I have honestly thought of trying that.

gmccool · Jan 6, 2013

I & my wife have gotten to the point where when we have a roast we cut up turnips insted of potatoes to put with it. If I have a choice I will choose a turnip over a potatoe anytime. Gerald

RBnSC · Jan 6, 2013

Me too. I love the bottoms but I really love the greens.
Ron

Traditional Farmer · Jan 6, 2013

I'm still pulling about 1/2 bushel Turnips every day to give to the hogs,not much on eating them myself

PJH · Jan 6, 2013

Nice turnips Larry! Did you ever make any turnip kraut? The old folks used to tell about making it during the depression (the real one in the '30s). They'd grind it up, add salt, sugar, vinegar, and hot water, and can it like you would using cabbage. For hard times. They said you just couldn't take a chance on wasting anything, and it was a way to prepare for the worst. So - my wife and I made some a couple of years ago just to try it. Let me just say that you'd have to be hungry to eat it. We've probably got 20 quarts of it in the cellar. Waiting for hard times. They ain't here yet.

Paul

Anonymous-0 · Jan 6, 2013

He's down there on the south end, Hardy any snow down there where He's at, We have one foot of it in North Westen Pa. Ground's not frozen here either would be if it wasn't for the snow, Snow work just like a blanket, Helps keep the ground warmer. Was only in the low-mid 20's all of last week

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