Here are a few tips about preparing turnips, rutabagas and parsnips. Raw (turnips): Cut off greens, rinse turnips under cool running water to clean, and peel the turnips with a knife. Sauté (turnips): ...

The skins need to be firm, and the top of the turnip bulb where the green was cut needs to be fresh, not discolored. Avoid bigger turnips as the bigger ones are tough, woody, and bitter.

Learn turnip gardening tips based on different heirloom turnip varieties and discover the history of garden turnips and their origins. “Heirloom Vegetable Gardening” by William Woys Weaver is ...

Early-crop turnips are in season from April to July; main-crop turnips from August to March. Look for turnips with smooth, undamaged skin and without brown spots, holes or spongey patches.

Once it is flowering, wild turnip is a tall, competitive annual weed, capable of causing large reductions in crop yields due to competition for light, nutrients and water. Unlike many of the annual ...