I plant turnips as a “cover” crop to keep the soil in my garden working over the winter. It has some perks, one is the greens are great. Second is I’ve been known to sit in the patch with a salt shaker and pocket knife eat’n raw turnips like apples. In fact, around here they are known as winter apples.
I’d have never lived to my next birthday had I been that snarky to my Mom. She would have let me starve to death, or just killed me on the spot to save on more aggravation… and in the 60’s she would have got away with it.
We used to play tackle football in a parking lot for fun, but then we also rode bikes with no helmets, drank from water hoses, and played “dodge Jarts”… AND we all survived.
Was working at Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in the 80’s and all but cut my left index finger off at the first knuckle… since they weren’t allowed to treat anyone over 17 years old they handed me a “Snoopy” band-aid and sent me (on foot) across 7 lanes of some of the most dangerous traffic in the Atlanta area to Northside Hospital. Don’t know what was worse.. nearly get’n run over 30 times or almost bleeding out trying to get there.
I plant turnips as a “cover” crop to keep the soil in my garden working over the winter. It has some perks, one is the greens are great. Second is I’ve been known to sit in the patch with a salt shaker and pocket knife eat’n raw turnips like apples. In fact, around here they are known as winter apples.