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Rutabaga

American Purple Top
Expected germination: 3-10 days
Expected harvest: 90 days

36 seeds

06/02: Planted 2 per cell in 18 cells.
06/06: 27 of 36 (75%) have shoots 0″ to 1/4″ tall.
06/10: 35 of 36 (97%) have shoots 1/4″ to 3/4″ tall.
06/14: 35 of 36 (97%) have shoots 1″ to 1-1/4″ tall.
06/19: Shoots are too dense to count and mostly 2″ to 3″ tall.
06/23: Planted out.
07/10: Thinned. Leaves and stalks chopped and boiled with dinner.
07/18: 9″ to 14″ tail, with foliage diameters to 24″. Unfortunately shading carrots.
07/19: Found and hosed off some aphid colonies.
07/22: Sprayed with 0.001% spinosad, an organic pesticide.
07/24: Approx 17″ tall, with foliage diameter approx 24″.
08/01: 14″ to 18″ tall, with foliage diameters 29″ to 33″.
08/02: Sprayed some leaves with 0.001% spinosad against aphids.
08/07: Approx 22″ tall, with foliage diameters approx 32″. Crowding cabbage and carrots.
08/12: Powdery mildew.
08/12: Started harvest.
08/15: Approx 22″ tall, with foliage diameters approx 36″. Crowding cabbage and carrots. Powdery mildew.
08/23: Approx 25″ tall, with foliage diameters approx 36″. Crowding cabbage and carrots. Severe powdery mildew.
08/29: Sprayed with baking soda (1/2pt at 1t/qt) against powdery mildew.
08/30: Approx 24″ tall, with foliage diameters approx 30″. Crowding cabbage. Powdery mildew. A few roots formed.
09/15: Leaves dying back despite very little development of storage root. Dug up remaining plants.

Harvest: 74-105 days. Good flavor but only about half yielded usable roots.. Poor crop may be due to limited sun and/or overcrowding.

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