Hello there, Kevin here from Epic Gardening. Today we're talking about an

underrated root crop that's perfect for the fall and that would be the humble

Rutabaga. Rutabaga is something that I don't think people will really talk about that much and it gets a little bit ignored.

So let's go ahead and shine a light on it.

Let's talk about how to grow it. Let's talk about what it is.

It's known as the Swedish turnip, the fall turnip or a Swede.

It is a cross between a turnip and a cabbage and it's a Brassica.

So the species itself is brassica, napo brassica. It's very redundant, but it is a fantastic, fantastic plant. It can be eaten raw, it can be eaten cooked, you can mash it, you can roast it, you can

saute it, you can fry it, you can add it to a soup, you can put it in a coal slaw. As you can imagine,

you can also eat those early greens, so they're quite quite nutritious and they are a fantastic

fantastic plant to grow especially if you're looking to get your root crop game a

little bit more elevated as we move into fall. So first of all let's talk about planting it. You're going to

want to direct so if possible. It can be transplanted but if you've got the

space it's probably better to just toss some seeds in the ground,

usually about a half inch, quarter inch deep.

And rake area at the soil, make sure

that you've got a little bit of fluffiness to it.

If you're going to direct so, of course, there's know want to make sure that soil is nice and healthy and it's really easy to grow. You want to harvest it in late autumn which means that you can sew it right about now or in a couple of weeks.

Again, like I said, you can harvest and eat those leaves.

Most brascals you can do that with.

The flavor is of course going to be to your liking or not.

It kind of depends on your palate there.

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