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Turnips in Newfoundland
One of the most dependable crops for exposed gardens.
demo estimate Guidance awaiting local review.
- Suitability for Newfoundland
- Cool-season — well suited
- Indoor seed start
- Not usually needed
- Transplant / sowing
- Direct sow ~1 weeks before typical last frost
- Frost tolerance
- Tolerates light frost
- Days to harvest
- 45–90 days
- Sunlight
- 4–6+ hours
- Spacing
- 10–15 cm apart
- Wind
- Handles wind well
- Containers
- Better in beds
- Greenhouse
- Not needed
Common problems here
- Root maggot
- Flea beetle
Varieties that make sense for a short season
- Traditional table turnip / rutabaga types
Harvest
Young for tender roots; leave late ones for fall.
Will turnips work in your garden?
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