The turnip is a vegetable of the family

The turnip is a biennial plant with fleshy and swollen root, shape and color variables. It has been cultivated since ancient times as plant food for both humans and livestock. We distinguish turnips vegetable, products for food, and forage turnips reserved for animals. Early turnips can be divided into long and round turnips, depending on the morphology of their roots. Turnips have leaves oblong, rough and bright green, and wearing flower stalks high of 0.50 to 1 m, crowned with yellow flowers. They generate seeds small, brown-red; their germination time is about five years. The turnip grows almost everywhere in France. Its quality is variable depending on the terrain in which it is grown. It is indeed a land not too light, and low-enriched organic manure. He appreciates input of phosphate and siliceous rocks. He did not like in calcareous soils or soil too dry, when it becomes stringy and makes a pungent taste. Its success is much better in wet years, which is also why it is grown mainly in spring and fall. He also fears severe frost: it must tear before the severe cold. Turnips are sown in spring on a layer for harvest in April-May, in March and June in the ground for harvest after two months of growth in July-August for fall harvest, and even in September Quick varieties, which are a winter supply. You sow, broadcast or online, 30 or 40 g in are in rows spaced 20 to 30 cm for the open ground, 20 to 25 cm for seeding layers. It clears a 10 or 15 cm depending on the variety. They need copious watering throughout the duration of cultivation, hoeing, weeding and mulching protector. In intercropping, they are planted with carrots, peas and salad. Turnips are harvested young, as they harden and lose their flavor with age. Turnips are harvested in winter from October to November, dry weather, and freed of dirt. Sheets are cut at the neck and stored in dry cellar or silo, in sand, if possible. Various turnips parasites attack, including the crucifer flea beetle, which eats the leaves and the cabbage maggot, which makes the root wormy. The hernia is a fungal disease that distorts the roots and makes them inedible. The turnip is a vegetable of the mustard family, bulbous shape with white flesh and its leaves are also edible. In Quebec, often called "turnip" is actually rutabaga, turnip akin to, but the flesh more yellow. Rutabaga is also called by some the