What Color Are Turnips

Popular turnip varieties include Purple Top, White Globe, Tokyo Cross Hybrid and Hakurei. Thecan be eaten raw or cooked. Soil must be light andfor best results. It is best to pull up the plant once it bolts or leave it to self-seed, if you have room.

Apply fungicides weekly as a foliar spray when conditions are favorable for the disease to develop. Lesion edges darken as they mature while the center of the spot becomes pale and almost white.

As a root crop, the plants become bitter when left in the ground during hot periods. Knowing when to pick turnip greens will ensure that you harness these nutrients at their peak.are eaten for the thick fleshy root or bulb that the plant produces.

Some are pulled and bunched together with the leaves and stems intact. Turnips keep very well in cold storage, so pull the entire crop by late fall. These are best taken when they are 2 inches in diameter.

Many, especially cruciferous weeds like mustard andDestroy diseased plant parts by burning, or dispose of them in sealed plastic bags. The spores are spread by splashing water, tools, wind, people and animals, mostly in warm, humid weather conditions.freestar.queue.push(function()...

Because the sporangia may survive in the compost bin, it is best to destroy them.No registered fungicides are recommended, but some gardeners swear by formulas thatwith non-crucifers every 2 years.

Humans cannot be self-supporting for long in a place that is never green. There was a time when regarding green flowers I would have thought, "What's the point?" However, our house came with some, and I really like them.

One of only a handful of towns through which the Appalachian Trail directly passes, Harpers Ferry offers plenty of river oriented activities including: white water rafting, fishing, tubing and canoeing.

Purple in the Purple Heart medal symbolizes courage. Some vegetables that usually are some other color sometimes are found in purple. Powders of manganese and hematite ores were used.Around 1500 BC, the people of Tyre and Sidon (modern Lebanon) started...

Once you have your container either purchase or make the appropriate soil for your selected plants. Crucial is the depth and width for the types of plants you wish to use. All specimens should have the same water, soil, light and nutrient requirements.Edible...

Can harvest throughout the winter when provided with a protective mulch. Roots (and greens) are sweetened by frosts. Where to plant: Garden; containers When to harvest: 55 days after seeding, when roots are 3 to 4 inches in diameter.

The spice is known as roucou in Trinidad and Tobago, achuete by Filipinos, and urucul by the Tupi-Guarani Indians of the Amazon region. In some high quality cheeses (produced mostly in the summer, when cows are grazing on grasses containing higher amounts...

Maybe you have tendencies that way yourself.The inside of my little house was painted with a similar effect to a plant collector's garden, one room at a time, with the cheap "oops" paint they have at the big home centers.

Snow is forecasted for the end of November, so I had better hurry if I want to have the garden ready for sowing in spring. After a few days, on one rainy day with strong wind, the linden leaves were falling - already?

It will help add depth to an already deep area!For an added splash, try setting up a small container pond in the same area you have cactus and succulents. The next time you're out plant shopping and see a pretty petal, try asking yourself, is it time...

One of my favourite effects uses orange with shocking pink! Purples, lavenders and blues are lovely complimentary colours for orange and peach.But I admit, not everyone wants a garden or border totally dominated by orange, for some people it's just too...

They are not "hardy" in terms of coming back next year, just in terms of lasting through this year. Most colors stimulate and excite me, scarlets, corals, indigos and magentas. The first truly re-blooming daylily, Stellas are unbelievably sturdy and do,...

I know I shouldn't admit this here, on Dave's Garden, but some days the plants are just there to fill up the pots. I never did manage to throw the perfect pot for plants, drainage hole, matching saucer and all.

The foliage is made more complex by a grayish/blue dusky sheen. To my eye, most Purple Heart is reddish or warm purple but you may see it differently as color perception varies somewhat.

I'm going to donate my “unwanted” beets and turnips to my local food pantry. This year, though, I've decided to take a different route. Obviously, they have never had them fresh from the garden (or they are taste-dysfunctional like my husband).

But just give me a good warm week of sunshine toward the end of April, and I will have the beginning of my Black garden, with just a touch of cool silver. "Oh," she said, "I have a black garden and I use silver and hot pink in it."Hu, with Amy's...

May it ever be so!A note to Firefox users: Firefox does not recognize the Wingding (a small blossom) that I use in the first paragraph of this article. Before we explore the world of lavender flowers, let's consider for a moment what the color evokes.

It may not be the most common color, but you can find red just about anywhere, from the depths of the sea to the depths of space. This means that no other color brings out the "redness" of red like green can.

Some of us are raking leaves and decorating our yards with mums and other fall decor, with Halloween on our minds.It came so suddenly, this changing of seasons. An overused cliche, perhaps.

Its just Perfectly ablaze in pink when in full bloom!The Monte Negro Asiatic Lily to the right adds a bit of drama with it's dark color. My camera isn't lying, it really IS that gorgeous!A little tip for your cosmos, trim them back before and after their...

Any shade of blue, periwinkle, violet, and lavender will fall under this category. The best advice I have for you is to drive around your town as much as possible and see what you are drawn to.

In a previous article I wrote on blue palms, some of these plants below were included.With other palms, it is the new leaf only that is brilliantly colored (perhaps to make it less edible looking to leaf-eating creatures?)Some palms have variegation that...