Also known as a cabbage turnip, this beautiful bright, purple colored vegetable has juicy sweet bulbs and leaves that can be cooked and have a collard flavor to them.
Planting Information:
When and Where to Plant: Select sunny location and sow seed as soon as soil can be worked and continue to sow at 2 week intervals until 4 weeks before fall frost. Cultivate soil and enrich with vegetable food. Firm soil over seed.
Care: Keep soil moist, clean, and feed every 4 weeks.
Harvesting: Pick or pull before they mature (2 to 2-1/2 in./5-6 cm.).
Germination Time: 10 - 20 Days
Days to Maturity: 55 - 60 Days
Planting Depth: 1/2 in.
Seed Spacing: 1 in.
Spacing Between Rows: 24 in.
Space After Thinning: 4 in.
Light Requirements: Full Sun