Tokyo Market Turnip Seeds | Brassica rapa | Certified Organic
Sweet, crunchy, fast-growing roots perfect for fresh snacking.
Like all good heroes of Japanese animation, the Tokyo Market Turnip deftly maneuvers through strange and sometimes hostile conditions. Frost barely out of the ground? No problem! Need greens for eating in less than a month? You got it! Want a root crop for the winter that you can sow really late in the season? Koko ni arimasu! The roots remain magically tender, sweet, and delicious despite these challenges. Prepare to be spirited away by this fantastical crop!
Tokyo Market Turnips will make you rethink everything you've ever thought about turnips: with a flavor and texture somewhere between a turnip and a radish, they're excellent fresh from the garden, on toast with salt and lemon, pickled, steamed, grilled, roasted, and mashed. Their young green tops make excellent sauté greens.
Direct sow outdoors, and cover with row cover if flea beetles are an issue in your garden. Harvest when roots are 2" in diameter. Succession sow all season long.
Days to Germination 3-7 days
Days to Maturity 35 days
Planting Depth 1/2"
Spacing in Row 4"
Spacing Between Rows 12"
Height at Maturity 12"
Width at Maturity 4"
Artwork by Will Sweeney. This digital illustration captures the magic of classic Japanese anime and the magic we feel when we grow these turnips. Will is a prolific storyboard artist and illustrator who has rendered work for everything from Spawn to Sesame Street.
About Hudson Valley Seed Company
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These Art Packs, most fundamentally, tell stories. Hudson Valley challenges artists to convey in a manner that is fully their own, the history and meaning of the seed variety contained in each pack. These stories were once integral to traditional societies-stories of seeds were often origin stories for entire communities and peoples, and the lore and beliefs that accumulated around seed varieties reflected the nearly familial way in which gardeners and farmers regarded their crops. Our society is, by and large, no longer connected to plants this way. But we like to think these Art Packs help to stitch our fragmented world back together: useful seeds, evocative art, both equally valuable to our experience of being human.