{"id":357,"date":"2023-01-24T10:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trippyacres.wordpress.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2023-02-25T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:53:03","slug":"turnips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/turnips\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/td><td><em>Brassica rapa<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Days<\/strong><\/td><td>60-70<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Varieties We Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>Boule D&#8217;Or, Purple Top White Globe<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Notes<\/strong><\/td><td>Turnips like it cool and will bolt when the temperature hits 80 degrees.  Direct seed them early in the spring and hope you don&#8217;t get an early warm spell!  Fall sowing is probably more reliable in the South.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Battle of the Bugs<\/strong><\/td><td>Aphids, flea beetles, stink bugs, snails, and slugs all take a bite.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fun Fact<\/strong><\/td><td>Apparently, the Romans liked to hurl turnips at unpopular public figures (don&#8217;t take my word for it though&#8230;I wasn&#8217;t there).<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Don&#8217;t Waste It!<\/strong><\/td><td>Turnips can be eaten raw, baked, boiled, roasted, or mashed.  Don&#8217;t forget the greens!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_2262.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-586\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Name Brassica rapa Growing Days 60-70 Varieties We Grow Boule D&#8217;Or, Purple Top White Globe Growing Notes Turnips like it cool and will bolt when the temperature hits 80 degrees. Direct seed them early in the spring and hope you don&#8217;t get an early warm spell! Fall sowing is probably more reliable in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/turnips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turnips<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-grow","no-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}