Spring is the last season you can start your turnips in a home garden, or else you will have to wait till the start of winter later in the year. Here is how to go about it.

Learn turnip gardening tips based on different heirloom turnip varieties and discover the history of garden turnips and their origins. “Heirloom Vegetable Gardening” by William Woys Weaver is ...

In the second session the children work in the garden to show Jim and Elsie, before joining together to show the turnip growing bigger and bigger. Warm up: skipping and whole body fruit shapes.

Early-crop turnips are in season from April to July; main-crop turnips from August to March. Look for turnips with smooth, undamaged skin and without brown spots, holes or spongey patches.