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Post by greybeard on Jan 7, 2020 12:57:14 GMT -6
I did turnips on an acre 2 years ago. disked real good, then broadcast them with some sand in my cone spreader, then drug to cover..lightly drug...very lightly
Best part about turnips is my cows didn't pull them clean out of the ground and after a few days off them, the tops came back quickly.
2nd best part was I was able to pull, cook & eat a bunch of them myself.
Worst part is trying to keep the hogs and deer from eating them before me or the cows get any.
My ground is generally way too hard to just broadcast them out like I do ryegrass.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jan 7, 2020 13:29:16 GMT -6
My cows will nose up the root to start with. They'll be gnawing on the root with the whole plant hanging out their mouth.
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Post by dave on Jan 7, 2020 15:51:02 GMT -6
I planted about 1/2 acre of turnips a couple years ago as an experiment. Just broadcast and drug them in. Probably early September. They looked great. I was planning on strip grazing them in November. I went elk hunting the first week in November. My youngest son was taking care of things while I was gone. The cows knocked down the hot wire while I was gone. All I know is that they ate every single bit of those turnips.
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Post by chuckie on Jan 17, 2020 10:09:44 GMT -6
There were a couple of Longhorn Steer pets down the road. They were beautiful and the man that lived next to the pasture, grew a big garden each year. He said that when he would go to his garden, the two long horns would come to the fence to get their turnip. He did enjoy feeding them.
Some of the farmers around here plant turnips as a cover crop. I asked my husband to stop and let me pull up a turnip to see what kind they were. The turnip had a long root as they feel it goes down deep and allows moisture to go further into the ground. I peeled the turnip and it was a really sweet tasting turnip. It was not a nice round big turnip like the ones we plant in the garden, but I do believe it had as good if not a better taste.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jan 17, 2020 16:53:38 GMT -6
I've only planted purple tops and white eggs. This year I planted the purple tops and they made the biggest root I've ever seen on a turnip. Most of them appeared to be just sitting on top of the ground.
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Post by bulltrader on Jan 17, 2020 18:51:50 GMT -6
Checked price today and purple top is $2 a pound. Does it go deep with the roots of get big and stays shallow
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jan 18, 2020 6:24:02 GMT -6
Checked price today and purple top is $2 a pound. Does it go deep with the roots of get big and stays shallow Mine stay on top and get big. It might be a condition of the soil. I typically have good moisture. This year my rye/turnip patch looked like a pond. Lost half of it to drowning. |
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Post by bulltrader on Jan 18, 2020 7:29:00 GMT -6
There were a couple of Longhorn Steer pets down the road. They were beautiful and the man that lived next to the pasture, grew a big garden each year. He said that when he would go to his garden, the two long horns would come to the fence to get their turnip. He did enjoy feeding them. Some of the farmers around here plant turnips as a cover crop. I asked my husband to stop and let me pull up a turnip to see what kind they were. The turnip had a long root as they feel it goes down deep and allows moisture to go further into the ground. I peeled the turnip and it was a really sweet tasting turnip. It was not a nice round big turnip like the ones we plant in the garden, but I do believe it had as good if not a better taste. Chuckie, any way you could find out which turnip they plant |
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Post by Allenw on Jan 18, 2020 7:44:27 GMT -6
Look around here a bit Kenny |
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Post by chuckie on Jan 18, 2020 9:38:57 GMT -6
Bulltrader, I will ask Kevin when he gets up. He had a bad night and didn't sleep very good. So it is going to make him a late sleeper this morning.
I was reading about them earlier, and they said often radishes were used because they went deeper. The root did fork downward, but I have never tasted of radish that was sweet like a turnip.
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Post by chuckie on Jan 18, 2020 14:32:35 GMT -6
I talked to my husband about the turnips they planted here. He said he was not sure, but after looking at what is shown on this site: plantcovercrops.com/cover-crop-turnips-a-good-choice-over-radishes/It appears to be the Appin Turnip. The others appear to have roots like an over grown hog weed, but there was a form of a bulb at the top, but there were longer forking roots that went deep. The ball of the root was underground and not sitting on top like the "purple top" does. When I looked it up, I was surprised to see how much nitrogen the leaves and the roots contained. They were not hard to pull up, so I can see a cow pulling the entire plant up by the roots and eating it all. |
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Post by bulltrader on Jan 18, 2020 18:06:02 GMT -6
I will see if I can get some of the appin
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