In so many ways fall in the garden and in life is a time of winding down, a closing of the accounts of summer, a perhaps welcome rest from the labor of the high season coupled with a wistfulness that long, warm days are a thing of the past. To some it is a time […]
Category Archives: Fall Vegetables
Turn-update
Wow, when I wrote my last post about Hakurei turnips http://www.urban-ag-solutions.com/look-whats-turned-up-in-the-garden/, I threw down a challenge to all comers: impress me and do better than Hakurei. I had even put something new in the soil, a turnip variety I had never heard about before, just to see what it had alongside the master. Well the data’s […]
Look What’s Turned Up In the Garden
These are sexy, magazine-ready Hakurei turnips…probably photoshopped! These are honest-to-goodness Hakureis just out of the ground. Even though I’m a 20-plus-year gardener who rises to the defense of almost any vegetable, if you say the word turnip, my first thought is still a mustardy-tasting mash, sitting unwanted on a plate, probably having been […]