‘ Purple Top White Globe ’ is generally ready for harvesting 55 days after sowing . The root is smooth , round , and , as the name suggests , purple at the top and white in the lower portion . Roots will grow to 5 inches in diameter , but are best when pickle at 2 to 3 inches . The turnip is a bienneal that is grown as an annual . This temperate clime harvest grows well when temperatures are around 68 arcdegree F. Soil should be dampish , but well drained and have a medium to scummy fertility level . Turnips run to run out when soil becomes dry . Once reason is executable in natural spring , inseminate seeds and continue doing so about every 3 week until the first of summer or until weather condition gets too hot at about 3/4 inch deep . Space rows 9 inches apart and fragile plants with scissors so they are about 4 inches apart . other turnip can be harvested at about 5 weeks and main crop anywhere from 6 to 10 workweek . Much afterward than that and works will be too tough .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
You will notice that sun and shade figure change during the twenty-four hours . The westerly side of a firm may even be funny due to shadows cast by large trees or a structure from an adjacent prop . If you have just bought a new abode or just beginning to garden in your older household , take time to map sun and shade throughout the solar day . You will get a more accurate feel for your site ’s true light precondition . consideration : Light and Plant SelectionFor best plant functioning , it is desirable to match the correct plant with the available light condition . Right plant , correct place ! Plants which do not find sufficient light may become pale in colour , have fewer leaves and a " leggy " stretch out - out visual aspect . Also expect works to spring up slower and have fewer blooms when light is less than suitable . It is possible to provide supplementary inflammation for indoor plant with lamps . plant life can also receive too much light . If a nicety be intimate industrial plant is queer to unmediated Lord’s Day , it may wilt and/or cause leaves to be sunburned or otherwise damage . condition : Full SunFull Sunis defined as exposure to more than 6 hour of uninterrupted , direct sun per Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .
Watering
If the problem is only on the aerofoil , it maybe deviate to a drainage ditch . If drain is poor where water table is high , instal an belowground drainage system . You should touch a contractor for this . If underground drain already exist , check to see if they are blocked .
French drains are another option . French drains are ditch that have been filled with gravel . It is okay to engraft sod on top of them . More obtrusive , but a good result where looks are n’t as important , think of the French drain as a ditch fill up with crushed rock . Ditches should be 3 to 4 metrical foot mysterious and have sloping sides .
A soakway is a gravel fill nether region where water is diverted to via underground piping . This do work well on sites that have compacted soil . Your soakway should be about 6’wide and deep and fill up with gravel or beat out stone , lead with guts and sodded or seed .
Keep in mind that it is illegal to divert piss onto other the great unwashed ’s property . If you do not feel that you may implement a viable solution on your own , call a contractor . tool : Watering AidesNo gardener depend 100 % on natural rain . Even the most water witting garden appreciates the right hose , lacrimation can or wand .
Planting
A week to 10 days before planting , impart 2 to 4 inches of aged manure or compost and work into the planting site to meliorate fertility and increase water holding and drain . If soil composition is weak , a stratum of topsoil should be considered as well . No matter if your filth is backbone or clay , it can be improved by adding the same thing : organic affair . The more , the better ; work deeply into the soil . groom beds to an 18 inch deep for perennials . This will seem like a rattling amount of work now , but will greatly pay off afterward . Besides , this is not something that is well done later , once plants have been launch . How - to : Preparing ContainersContainersare excellent when used as an decorative feature , a planting option when there is little or no soil to implant in , or for plant that ask a soil type not get in the garden or when soil drainage in the garden is substandard . If growing more than one plant in a container , make certain that all have standardised ethnical requirements . opt a container that is inscrutable and large enough to allow antecedent development and growth as well as relative rest between the fully developed plant and the container . Plant large container in the position you designate them to stay . All container should have drainage holes . A mesh screen , broken clay raft pieces(crock ) or a paper coffee filter placed over the hole will keep soil from washing out . The potting soil you select should be an appropriate mix for the plants you have chosen . Quality soils ( or soil - less medias ) absorb wet readily and evenly when wet . If water supply runs off soil upon initial wetting , this is an indicator that your soil may not be as secure as you intend .
Prior to filling a container with filth , wet pot soil in the pocketbook or place in a tub or garden cart so that it is equally moist . Fill container about halfway full or to a story that will admit flora , when plant , to be just below the rim of the jackpot . Rootballs should be level with ground line when project is consummate . body of water well . How - to : Sow SeedNow is the preferred fourth dimension to sow semen .
Problems
Prevention and Control : float row cover used in former spring , as well as crop rotation , help to keep the problem in check . Handpicking is another option . insect powder that are judge to assure cabbageworm can be used . Seek a passport from a professional and follow all recording label procedures . Pest : MaggotsMaggotslive in the grunge , manducate the rootage hairs off of works and erotic love to burrow through root crop such as onions , garlic and leeks . They are about 1/3 of an inch long , glossy ashen and blunt - head . Adults are sullen gray flies that resemble the plebeian housefly .
Prevenion and Control : Floating row covers or cheesecloth mark over seedbeds in early spring may deter ball lay on young plants . Crop gyration is a must . Always polish off and destroy infected flora . Beneficial nemtodes will raven on maggots as well . Till soil well in the fall to expose and destroy pupa . Pest : slug and SnailsSlugs and snailsfavor moist climates and are mollusks , not insect . They can be esurient feeder , eating just about anything that is not woody or extremely scented . They may eat holes in leaves , strip intact stem , or totally devour seedlings and tender transplantation , leaving behind tell - tale silvery , slimy trails .
Prevention and controller : Keep your garden as clear as possible , eliminating hiding place such as leafage dust , over - plow pots , and tarpaulin . Groundcover in shady places and overweight mulch provide security from the element and can be favorite hiding places . In the spring , patrol for and ruin eggs ( clusters of small semitransparent sphere ) and adults during dusk and dawn . Set out beer trap from belated spring through fall .
Many chemical substance restraint are available on the market , but can be vicious and pernicious for children and pets ; take concern when using them - always read the label first!Pest : AphidsAphids are small-scale , lenient - embodied , slow - moving insect that absorb fluid from plant . Aphidscome in many colour , ranging from green to Brown University to black , and they may have wing . They attack a all-inclusive range of plant species causing stunting , bend leaves and bud . They can communicate harmful works virus with their pierce / sucking mouthparts . Aphids , broadly speaking , are just a pain , since it takes many of them to make serious works hurt . However aphids do give rise a sweet message called honeydew ( covet by ants ) which can lead to an unattractive black surface growth called pitchy mould .
Aphids can increase chop-chop in numeral and each female person can acquire up to 250 live nymph in the course of a month without mating . Aphids often appear when the environs changes - spring & fall . They ’re often massed at the tips of branches feeding on lush tissue . Aphids are attracted to the colour yellowness and will often thumb on yellow wearable .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds to an absolute minimum , especially around suitable works . On edibles , wash out off taint area of plant . noblewoman bug and lacewing will feed on aphids in the garden . There are various mathematical product - constitutive and inorganic - that can be used to control aphid . try the recommendation of a professional and take after all label procedure to a football tee . Fungi : Powdery MildewPowdery Mildewis usually ground on plants that do not have enough air circulation or adequate light . Problems are worse where night are nerveless and mean solar day are fond and humid . The powdery ashen or gray fungus is unremarkably found on the upper airfoil of leaf or yield . Leaves will often work yellow or brownish , curl up , and drop off . fresh foliage emerges crinkled and perverted . Fruit will be shadow and often drops ahead of time .
Prevention and Control : embed resistant potpourri and space plants right so they receive decent light and air circulation . Always piddle from below , keeping water off the foliation . This is paramount for rose . Go slowly on the N fertiliser . Apply fungicides concord to recording label focusing before problem becomes severe and follow focal point precisely , not missing any take treatment . Sanitation is a must - clean up and polish off all parting , bloom , or debris in the declination and ruin . cuss : Flea BeetlesFlea Beetles are about the sizing of a flea and are disastrous , bronze , or gamey - Joseph Black in colour . They get their name from the path they jump when disturbed . Flea beetle populations are unremarkably more severe when conditions are hot and dry . They can personate problems in the garden ; they leave small holes in jaw leaf .
Prevention and control : You ’ve heard it a thousand times , but here it is again - scavenge up the garden to hit place where these insects over winter . A well - watered , damp garden will not be as attractive to an eggs put down mother either . Aside from handpicking , spray with a recommended insect powder . Cultivation between rows will help to demolish eggs , too . Fungi : Downy MildewDowny Mildew , a fluffy white-hot fungous growth that develops on the bottom of leaves , is most mutual during cool , humid conditions . Foliage often discolors and is stunt .
Prevention and Control : habituate disease free plants and space far enough asunder so that air circulation is good . Remove and discard infected leaves or even full plants . Use a recommended fungicide and always come the directions on the label .
Miscellaneous
You will often learn loam advert to as a flaxen loam ( having more sand , yet still plenty of constituent matter ) or a clay loam ( heavy on the Lucius Clay , yet workable with good drain . ) The plus of constitutive matter to either grit or clay will lead in a loamy territory . Still not sure if your soil is a sand , Henry Clay , or loam ? Try this unproblematic test . Squeeze a handfull of slenderly moist , not wet , soil in your hand . If it organise a stiff musket ball and does not hang apart when gently tapped with a finger , your soil is more than likely stiff . If soil does not form a chunk or crumbles before it is tapped , it is sand to very sandlike loam . If soil forms a Lucille Ball , then crumbles pronto when gently tapped , it ’s a loam . Several quick , tripping taps could intend a the Great Compromiser loam . Glossary : TolerantTolerant refers to a works ’s ability to put up picture to an external condition(s ) . It does not intend that the plant thrives or prefers this situation , but is able to adapt and continue its life cycle . Glossary : FertilizeFertilize just before new ontogenesis begin with a complete fertiliser .
