As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Like all children, my first exposure was to turnips in fairytales I was read. They seemed quite in vogue with the storyline in everyone wanted them, but we never ate nor grew them.
The first time I ever tasted turnips were a gift from someone from Arkansas, who raised summer turnips and the mother put them into soup..........they were strong and ruined the soup. Summer turnips are horrid things.
I read of their growing though again from a seed grower in Iowa, tried them as he said, but Iowa is not the Brier and I got nothing.
It was not until our neighbors in not farming correctly began pneumatic sowing turnips and winter radishes (Daikon) into their summer soils to restore them, that TL and I tried turnips again and were delighted.
In fall rains, cool weather, turnips were sweet and marvelous. They also grew like weeds. We found that even turnips that were huge were lovely to eat.
So we started harvesting them, and you have to store them a bit better than a porch or they shrivel up. I got sick and left them in the pick up cab for week, and they were fine in the heat and cold. They now sit in our cellar, exactly as Teddy Roosevelt explained the People of the Ohio country raised turnips.
Why turnips? Because seeds were light compared to bags of potatoes when you had to carry them. Turnips produce an amazing harvest.
I have watched the farmers here in the tons of turnips and radishes in the fields. No one will eat the things except us. TL and I go Jesus picking in the fields and have a great time of it. We harvested 30 gallons of turnips in a few trips and you could not see we were in the fields at all.
160 acres of turnips would feed thousands of people. That is the kind of production turnips will produce. A farmer if this was sponsored to feed people which is going to become necessary, could plant wheat or oats, harvest the crop, and double crop with turnips and feed even more people.
There are two real crops that produce a great deal of food, one is turnips and the other is squash. I do not like squash that much, but you can do as much with squash as turnips.
I include a french fried turnip recipe of chips. Just cover with Paremsian cheese, salt, pepper and a very slight sprinkling of garlic powder and you will have a nice treat that will probably have you wondering why you were not eating these things. We really like them boiled like potatoes too, cut into wedges. .They are simple, sweet and tasty to prepare.
For your survival, turnips should be a crop you should grow. Granted you will have to learn how to save seed, if you live in a climate where they freeze and die over winter, but that is your research. I actually like them better than potatoes. They are nutricious and kept starvation away from Ohio settlers, until the ground was settled enough to plant wheat.
Another survival lesson from the Lame Cherry in matter anti matter.
Nuff Said
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