Okay, let's talk today about Swedes, and I'm not talking about the people or the country.

I'm talking about what we call over here in America as

Rutabaga, a lot of people call Swedes.

In fact, Charles Dowding, the legendary no-dig gardener,

when I went to his garden, kept referring to this plant

as Swedes, and I was confused because I really hadn't heard that

terminology much before and he said oh I believe you call them Rutobegas and I said okay

there we go now I understand these look amazing now what exactly are they because they're certainly not the most

popular root crop. They're similar to turnips. They have a sweeter flavor and

you want to actually grow them into a frost.

There's also some aesthetic difference, right?

So you've got a more yellow flesh on a rutabaga,

while turnips are more white and rutabaga, what's interesting is the foliage is sort of smooth.

It's waxy.

Turnips have a bit of a rough, almost weediest texture on the top of their greens. But besides these differences, the care for the plants

is very similar. It is a biennial plant, much like an onion, but we actually grow it just as an annual.

There's a lot of plants.

I think it's kind of interesting how many plants we grow

through a portion of their life and then just don't consider that

then there's an entire life cycle that we ignore because we harvest them before that happens.

Now how do we actually plant our rutabagas?

You can plant them.

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