Turnips are an easy-to-grow cool-season vegetable that produces a crop of cold-hardy, edible greens and a root that can be eaten raw, cooked, or pickled. Turnips are a form of Brassica rapa, the same ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Start planning now for your fall garden. Many of our cool season vegetable can be planted in the upcoming weeks for harvest into early winter. Vegetable ...

Track maturity dates and harvest turnips early—overgrown roots lose flavor and texture. Both roots and leafy greens are edible, with some varieties grown just for greens. Pick young turnips for mild ...

While making soup from garden vegetables I realized that perhaps many of us don’t think to plant turnips or rutabagas. Turnips and rutabagas are among the most commonly grown root crops. They are ...

GREENS SEEDS: Lettuce can be direct seeded into the garden now through the end of February. Good cultivars include Black-seeded Simpson, Oakleaf, Redsails, Cos Romaine and Buttercrunch. VEGGIES NOW: ...

An added boost for mowers in winter Your mowers and weed trimmers most likely spend winter in an outside building exposed to freezing temperatures. A great idea all during the winter is to start the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In the year of the new coronavirus, when new gardeners came out in droves to try growing their own vegetables, tomatoes were still king. And in a twist, the respect-seeking turnip ...