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I pulled the last of the turnips today.

28.6 pounds in this pile (12.97 KG). This is the third such pile.

Turnips this season totaled 62.6 pounds (28.39KG) They took up half my grow bed.

If I learned to cook them and eat them I would have had a lot of meals from this.. The cows loved them so I guess I'll get some of that back in meat.

Great work there.......

looks like things are really going strong

jT

"Two by two, hands of blue..."

I have never eaten turnip greens cooked before. I fried up some turnip greens with squash, onions, and butter. All I can say is YUM!

Dan, your the Man!

Very impressive turnip crop. Good observation about the white tilapia being less aggressive. You can develop your own AP strain of tilapia after several (fish)generations of selective breeding.

Now that you have had the giant growbed for some time, I was wondering if you would change anything about it? Seems to be working very well.

geeze.... what an ugly mug behind that turnip patch

jdphish, Honestly, the only thing that bothers be about the growbed is the fact that is on the ground and because its not treated lumber some kind of bug is making sawdust out of part of it and fire ants seem to be stealing the pollen off the corn which worries me that the ants might farm aphids. Raising 13.5 cubic yard of gravel into the air is just to much though. I might add a mote of some sort around it. Besides I love walking through the gravel bare foot; never did get those stepping stones. If I could change anything I think it would be to break the bed in to 3 separate sections so that I can raise crops that take over a bed, like mint and water spinach, without it taking over the whole operation and using treated lumber.

DDM if I ever get to filling my new bed with gravel I was planning on partitioning it by using pond liner. The procedure would be to lay down a long somewhat narrow flap onto the bottom, weigh half the width down with gravel to seal the bottom edge against the bed liner, then fold the partition up 90 degrees to form a vertical wall, and support it on the other side of the vertical partition with more piled up gravel. The partition liner would be like twice the width as the height of the vertical wall (i.e. the liner would be 2' wide to form a 1' tall partition), so that half is on the bottom being weighted down and sealed by the gravel on top of it, and the other half folds 90 degrees up to form the partition wall.

I wanted to partition my bed into 8 long segments, hopefully nearly flooding each in turn.

Firefly reference?

I am tinkering with the idea of trying a raft growbed on the cheap. So, Im thinking why not do what this Mexican commercial operation has done and use wire frame and liner.



I would not even need to make the ground level?

Always looking good DDM! 3 x turnips! Good thing your cattle love them....

I like turnip in chicken soup but never found another use for them....I never realised that the greens could be eaten. You think good for rabbits too?.. (greens)

The tops, turnip greens are almost as good and mustard greens. Some people (like me) don't eat the bottoms .
Animals love them, I plant then in deer patches and the deer eat the tops and the wild hogs root out the bottoms. Then I eat them!

Yes, the rabbits can eat the greens! My wife eats the bottoms, we all eat the tops now that we found out that they are tasty. I prepared them by boiling the tops then frying them.

Many things can be eaten. I am finding that MANY things around me that I thought were poison are infact good food.

http://www.eattheweeds.com/www.EatTheWe ... chive.html

I know a lot of that will not apply to your reign, but some of it will.

LOL... Right next to the mashed potatoes!

Thanks Dan! WIll go check it out. It is amazing how much we can actually eat! Going to try those turnip greens now too..