Nadmorska rutabaga
$4.00 – $10.00
(Brassica napus)
From Lithuania, a green-topped, yellow-fleshed rutabaga. This was the variety which convinced my family that we like rutabaga, after years of avoiding them! Pleasantly nippy flavour as a raw vegetable, but really shines grated in a stir-fry. Stores well.
Plant in mid-late June (about three months before the first frost date) for fall storage crop. Sow ½” deep, 2” apart in rows 18” apart, or broadcast and rake seedbed; thin to 8”. Keep watered if weather is dry. Harvest after frost (it improves the flavour) by digging root with a fork. Trim root and tops and store in root cellar buried in sand, sawdust, or autumn leaves.
Rutabaga leaves are also edible.