mature turnips

[bikermike]

any good suggestions? I have a few large ones still in the ground. We fried up the young ones and they were lovely, roasted some and they were nice, but the last liftings were a bit bitter

[Zelenina]

I'm a seedaholic so I'd be inclined to store them until spring and replant them and try to get some seeds off them. Which variety are they?

[SelkirkAlex]

smart ass answer but about all old turnips are good for is feeding to cattle and horses, slow roasting whole will maximise any sweetness

[bikermike]

bother, I feared as much. what's annoying is that they are only just too bitter, so if I'd lifted them a few weeks earlier, they'd have probably been ok.

Don't know what variety they are off the top of my head (Whatever Mr Fothergill was flogging last year I think).



"smart ass answer but about all old turnips are good for is feeding to cattle and horses, slow roasting whole will maximise any sweetness"
so if I feed them to my livestock do I get clever donkeys?

[SelkirkAlex]

if it is only marginal then try some slow roasted whole and see what you think, worth a try

[bikermike]

I'll give it a go. I have nothing to lose...

[Chestnut]

If slow roasting doesn’t do the trick, I’d be inclined to put them in compost. Unfortunately I don’t know anyone who keeps animals....

[veggiechicken]

How Statistics Got to the Root of My Turnip Problem - Minitab

[Alison]

Big turnips aren't great, not much you can do with them now, they're at their best in the summer or early autumn

[bikermike]

In a minor victory, I have discovered that the ones that have remained small (failure to thin) still taste nice. So I'm going to try and deliberately plant them in clumps this year.