Also called Purple top turnips. Cool season, annual or biennial brassica that is somewhat frost tolerant. Prefers deep, fertile, sandy to heavy clay soils. Use as a high quality forage crop; excellent late fall and winter forage. Plant in the spring for summer grazing or in the summer to extend the grazing into late fall. Leafy tops can be lightly grazed before fall, and bulbs are dug for forage in the winter by grazing livestock and wildlife, even under snow.

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