Late July and early August is a good time to plant some turnips for both the deer and your own table fare. Personally I’ve never had real good success in attracting or holding deer on a plot ...

Growing your own turnips provides both healthy greens and delicious root vegetables. Plant this cool-weather crop in late winter and early fall.

Turnips are fast-growing vegetables cultivated for mild, spicy roots and also for edible greens. You can grow and harvest this versatile crop throughout the year, and eat it raw or cooked.

Some hunters add turnips, Austrian peas or iron clay peas or other cool-weather plants to their mix. The cereal grains come on early, providing forage through the early part of deer season.

These easy planting tips on how to grow turnips will help you grow flavorful roots and greens in your garden.

Plant seeds of beets, carrots, collards, corn (late February), Swiss chard, Irish potatoes (plant whole or cut tubers), kohlrabi, lettuce, mustard, radish, rutabaga and turnips.

Besides planting soybeans for the deer, the park group is planting turnips, clover and various grasses. A mowing program has also been adopted to encourage maximum plant growth and animal ...