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Turnip Sweet Bell Seeds

Price: €2.29

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Turnip Sweet Bell Seeds - Irish Plants Direct

This fast copping globe variety of turnip has creamy white roots with purple shoulders and a sweet flavour with a crisp texture they are very tender when harvested young and are an ideal catch crop between other vegetables.

Seed Qty 250

☀️Sow April - June

☀️Germination 7 - 14 days

☀️Loam or clay soil that's alkaline or neutral

☀️Harvest June - October

☀️Companion Plants Peas, brassica's, squash and tomatoes

Do not plant with Potatoes, Radish or any other root vegetable

☀️Harvest when young or leave to mature, the tops can be harvested as greens.

☀️A good source of vitamin C

☀️Use roasted, mashed, boiled or used raw in salad's.

Turnips are brassicas and like all plants from the brassica family they need a sunny spot and well drained fertile soil that has been well dug in autumn that is not acidic so liming may be necessary.

Sow seed 1.25cm deep leaving 15cm between rows under cloches in February then in open ground from March until June thin the seedlings to 3cm then again to 10cm.

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