Purple Top and Royal Crown have deep purple shoulders and creamy flesh. Oasis is the sweetest of the turnips, all white, and, when peeled, it can be eaten like an apple. These varieties all take about 60 days to mature. For a fall crop, the marvelously named Gilfeather is unsurpassed. It becomes sweeter over winter and resists the pithy stage that spring turnips develop in the blink of an eye.
Turnips can be hard to find at times.
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