Purple Top, White Globe
\nExpected germination: 7-10 days
\nExpected harvest: 55 days<\/p>\n
36 seeds<\/p>\n
06\/02: Planted 2 per cell in 18 cells.
\n06\/06: 24 of 36 (67%) have shoots 1\/4″ to 1″ tall.
\n06\/10: 36 of 36 (100%) have shoots 1\/4″ to 1-1\/2″ tall.
\n06\/14: 36 of 36 (100%) have shoots 1″ to 1-3\/4″ tall.
\n06\/19: Shoots are too dense to count and mostly 3″ to 3-1\/2″ tall.
\n06\/23: Planted out.
\n07\/04: Thinned. Stalks chopped in soup. Leaves chopped and heated with salt, pepper, lemon, and sherry, then spread thickly on digestive biscuits as an appetizer.
\n07\/18: 12″ to 17″ tall, with foliage diameters to 24″. Unfortunately shadowing parsnips.
\n07\/19: Thinned one turnip and ate as turnip chips.
\n07\/19: Hosed off as a precaution against aphids which we had found on related plants nearby.
\n07\/22: Sprayed with 0.001% spinosad, an organic pesticide.
\n07\/24: Approx 17″ tall, with foliage diameter approx 24″.
\n07\/25: Started occasional harvest as they come ready.
\n08\/01: Approx 13-22″ tall, with foliage diameter approx 24″. Several ready but too hot to eat turnips right now.
\n08\/07: Approx 25″ tall, with foliage diameter approx 26″. Crowding parsnips. Occasional harvesting.
\n08\/15: 18″ to 24″ tall, with foliage diameter approx 28″. 2″ to 3″ diameter. Harvest continues. Foliage looks healthy but seems to be starting to lie down.
\n08\/23: Foliage lying down and going dormant. Three roots remain.
\n08\/30: One roots remains.
\n09\/02: Last root had been completely hollowed out by slugs, the only turnip thus affected.<\/p>\n
Harvest: 53-92 days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Purple Top, White Globe Expected germination: 7-10 days Expected harvest: 55 days 36 seeds 06\/02: Planted 2 per cell in 18 cells. 06\/06: 24 of 36 (67%) have shoots 1\/4″ to 1″ tall. 06\/10: 36 of 36 (100%) have shoots 1\/4″ to 1-1\/2″ tall. 06\/14: 36 of 36 (100%) have shoots 1″ to 1-3\/4″ tall. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-2009-annuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}