Posted by PJH on July 18, 2010 at 16:06:38 from (71.171.210.65):
In Reply to: Garden question posted by old on July 18, 2010 at 13:53:17:
10th of August for turnips in Southern Illinois will always get you a good crop. That's two months before the expected frost date of October 10.
Take the seed that you bought and put 1/2 of it in the freezer for next year. Then mix the other 1/2 real well with a coffee can full of DRY sand. Sow it in a prepared seed bed, then I roll it tight. Then, even using 1/2 of the seed, it'll still be planted too thick.
You can also mix some turnip seed in with alfalfa seed when sowing alfalfa.
Or catch some seeding being done on a highway project. Have a rider dribble it out of the seed sack while riding in the back of a pickup at highway speed. We once had five miles of turnips planted on a road project. It was done by one of the local jokers whose dad had a seed corn business and had access to his dad's seed.
Lots of new lawns end up with scattered turnips, always sowed in the dark of the night - not to make them grow better, but instead to keep from being shot.
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