They're nutritious, easy to find and store, and are great in everything from soups and stews to side and gratins. When was the last time you ate a turnip? These robust root vegetables get ...

Sow turnip seeds directly into your prepared raised bed, spacing them about two inches apart in rows that are 12 inches apart ...

Tender turnips keep this gratin light ... Cover tightly with kitchen foil. Cook in the oven on the middle shelf for 15 minutes, then use a fish slice or spatula to press down on the vegetables ...

To freeze early-crop turnips, trim, peel and dice them, then blanch, cool and pack into freezer bags. Cook from frozen. For main-crop turnips, cook, drain and mash them, then freeze in rigid ...

It is the versatile turnip. Turnip greens and roots have long been associated with Southern home cooking. Foragers gathered greens in early spring to remedy vitamin-deficient winter diets.