Mangels and turnips and beets, oh my.

Well, let's start with turnips. Bed 25 only. This is certainly a crop from 1886, but we are really unsure as to how it would have been planted. The seeds are extremely small and hard to manage.We will definitely have to thin. We'll see about next year.

Beets are okay, but they are also a smaller seed to plant. They are in Beds 23-24. 

Mangels. Let's talk about mangels. It's a beet relation used as animal fodder. I never heard of it until I wrote the Orientation Guide this spring. There was a visitor from Austria earlier this year that was familiar with the mangel but most North American folks don't seem to know about it. For more about mangels, see http://www.feedipedia.org/node/534
(thanks Judy)

I'm guessing the above is a mangel. I weeded it and several more from Bed 17 - until I realized that many of these weeds were growing in very regular patterns. Hmmmm - what a coincidence. The 2015 Produce Garden list dated July 5 currently shows that we planted mangels in Beds 21-22. Hmmmm - I think not. A new version of the list will be issued shortly.

I anticipate that next year we will plant over a much shorter time period and keep better tabs on where everything goes.