Rutabagas
Brassica napus
Please refer to our Rutabaga Growing Guide for cultural information.
Packet: 2g (approximately 900 seeds) sows 46 ft.
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American Purple Top Yellow Rutabaga, 2 g 90 days. [Introduced before 1920 as an improved strain of Purple Top Yellow (pre-1850).] Long the standard for home and market use. Flesh is mild, yellow, fine-grained, and firm. Pkt (2 g). | |
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Gilfeather Turnip Rutabaga, 2 g (Brassica napus x rapa) 85 days. [1860s] Famous heirloom selected and named by Vermont farmer Jack Gilfeather. An early addition to the Slow Foods Ark of Taste. A rare cross between a rutabaga and turnip, roots are white… | |
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Nadmorska Rutabaga, 2 g 90 days. [From seed collected in Lithuania in 2007 by the Seed Ambassadors Project.] Large, vigorous and early maturing. Green tops, sweet golden flesh. Unusually, roots are longer and more oval than regular round rutabagas. |
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Heirlooms introduced before 1940
Varieties well-suited to the Mid-Atlantic & further South
Seed from small farms in our Seed Grower Network
