On 7/18/2013 2:07 PM, Todd wrote:
On 07/18/2013 10:29 AM, John McGaw wrote:
On 7/18/2013 12:32 AM, Todd wrote:
Hi All,

Got me a forest of Golden Globe Turnips growing in
the garden:

http://www.rareseeds.com/golden-globe/

Tried eating one of the leaves a week ago. Hmmmm.
Okay. Interesting tastes. I can see where all
the remarks about feeding turnips greens to livestock
come from. One of those run your tongue under
a hose for five minutes and then try to ignore the
after taste experiences. Oh my!

If I can not figure out a way to make the greens
palatable (I have a post on a cooking group on
that subject), what to do with them? Hold them till
the end of the season and dig them under? Trash can?

Many thanks,
-T


My friend's iguana absolutely loved that sort of green. She (the iguana,
not my friend) was getting up toward 6 feet the last time I saw her so
they must be pretty nutritious regardless of the taste.

Lacking an bunch of animals to eat them, composting always works.

Hi John,

Thank you!

So, feed them to livestock.

I lack composting facilities. As a substitute, how far
under would you bury them at the end of the year?

-T

Couldn't venture a guess as to how deeply you might bury them. If they are
well chopped, by a rototiller perhaps, I'd not worry too much and just let
them mix in where they will in the top 8" or so. That is as much effort as
I've gone to over the years and where the soil and weather conditions were
amenable the chopped green matter pretty much disappeared in a couple of
months. I'd imagine that an abundance earthworms would speed the process
assuming, of course, that their taste buds aren't so discerning as yours.