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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on April 18, 2011, 04:00:35 pm

Title: are turnip greens edible?
Post by: northfifeduckling on April 18, 2011, 04:00:35 pm

I have some left in a bed and I wondered if the leaves are edible? I put radish leaves into my salads as they are like mustard greens but not sure about turnips. I have in the back of my head that parsnip tops aren't...Would they be any good for the birds? :&>

Title: Re: are turnip greens edible?
Post by: ellisr on April 18, 2011, 04:43:07 pm

my chickens eat any green I cut out of the veg patch, they especially love spinach and cabbage leaves. So they will love turnip tops.

Title: Re: are turnip greens edible?
Post by: VSS on April 19, 2011, 09:05:54 pm

Yes, you can eat them, but I find them rather bitter.

Title: Re: are turnip greens edible?
Post by: deepinthewoods on April 23, 2011, 03:19:06 pm

turnip tops are good treated like spinach. i also thought parsnip leaves unedible, but my friends new polish wife makes soup from them, so he has eaten them, ive yet to try.

Title: Re: are turnip greens edible?
Post by: northfifeduckling on April 23, 2011, 03:27:41 pm

maybe it's just the seelings then as you are not supposed to eat those (unlike radish and brokkoli seedlings/sprouts) :&>

Title: Re: are turnip greens edible?
Post by: Blonde on May 08, 2011, 05:54:07 am

Intersting... .