My first year, but not so far. Willing for someone to tell me how to store them. Bonus is the fam wants to eat them so not a problem at this point.

Dan

Glib, Sorry they aren't good for storage. I have grown them for 2.5 years. If you have a hoop house, you can keep them growing for a long time, we finished eating ours in January. You can cut off the tops and store them in plastic bags for, 3-4 weeks, not as good but they were edible.

I remember reading somewhere, maybe on the package, it says specifically "Not for Storage, fresh use only".

Jay

Thanks. I am going to give them a trial this winter, left in the ground and covered with leaves (with purple tops, I pull them out of the ground and cover them), and see if they can stand those conditions. These are the most benign storage conditions except for voles (ground does not freeze under leaves, and they are in root contact with the moist soil), if they do not store that way, they do not store period. Right now they are just out of the soil (on Jay's recommendation, I bought a maxi packet). Probably they need to be seeded at the same time as bok choi (mid-August here) for the Fall-Winter edition.

Glib, where did you get the seeds?

Also, they grow very fast. If you plant in mid august, they will be ready by mid to late September. I would do a few smaller plantings.

Jay

At Johnny. It is maxi for me, of course, not for you, but every year I am eating more roots than the year before. I compare them to bok choi, 45 days to maturity, but maybe I should compare them to arugula, 35 days. I will plant mid august in shade, and early september in the sun, and see how it goes.

I ordered extra seeds this spring and I am so glad I did. Johnny's is the only distributor of the Hakeurei Turnip, that I know of. Their website has show, SOLD OUT, for the last several months!

Jay

Teaches you and others to keep your cards close to your vest. I am one of the culprits clearly, and I collaborated also in selling out their Costata Romanesca, promoted by bellatrix and others. If you have credibility in this forum, you can move the seed market.

Mine should be ready very soon; the tops are a good 8-9" and one of the roots peeking out of the soil looks to be 1" across. Perhaps I will pull them this weekend; that will be 7 weeks from direct seeding. I bought them because they sounded like some I once got from a CSA that I liked, and I normally don't like turnips. I hope they are all ya'll are saying they are, because if they are they will feature prominently in my fall garden. (And yes, I have a stash of seeds left over!)

Dank it, I am going to have to stay quiet now! I love the Costata Romanesca too! I have a nice stash of seeds of them too! I guess I will have to order more, EARLIER, in order to keep getting them. Alabamanicole, I have been pulling some of mine, golf ball and a little larger, they are wonderful! You won't be disappointed. Eat the first one in the garden, wipe a the dirt of and chow down!

Jay

Okay, I pulled a couple up. Wow. They are what I always wanted in a perfect radish -- sweet but spicy without burning your tongue off. They are just missing the greater crispness and juiciness of a radish.

I'm sold. They aren't the ones I got before; those were more bland. (But those were a late fall crop, so the early summer heat could be making a difference.)

I hope my radishes don't taste like turnips.