They grow in our short fall and don’t care about clay.

Sow

July 20–August 10. Keep wet until up.

Spacing

4 in turnip, 8 in rutabaga.

Days

50 turnip / 90 rutabaga

Harvest

After several frosts. Greens are food too.

Store

Sand in the cellar, or in the ground under a heavy leaf mulch.

Seed

Biennial. Same caveats as other brassicas.

Companions

Peas (spring), onion.

Pests

Flea beetles on seedlings — row cover.

Purple Top White Globe and American Purple Top rutabaga are the old reliable.