Turnips like this one can be had in most grocery stores year round.

So why did we select it as a Photo of the Week?

js

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wrote:
> Turnips like this one can be had in most grocery stores year round.
>
> So why did we select it as a Photo of the Week?
>
> js
>


Looks like a mineral deficiency. If the tiny bit of minerals in a peat
pot can make a difference, I'll guess it's either a boron deficiency, or
maybe iron (iron bound up in alkaline soil except where the acid peat
maybe releases it.)

These are wild-ass guesses. It'll be interesting to see what other
theories folks have.

Best regards,
Bob

In article >, zxcvbob > wrote:
wrote:
>> Turnips like this one can be had in most grocery stores year round.
>> <http://schmidling.com/pow.htm>
>> So why did we select it as a Photo of the Week?
>
>Looks like a mineral deficiency. If the tiny bit of minerals in a peat
>pot can make a difference, I'll guess it's either a boron deficiency, or
>maybe iron (iron bound up in alkaline soil except where the acid peat
>maybe releases it.)
>
>These are wild-ass guesses. It'll be interesting to see what other
>theories folks have.

Yes, it could well be a micronutrient deficiency as you say.

The compressed peat pellets that the good one was started in usually
contain enough complete fertiliser to get the seedling going, so that
would suggest it is probably a micronutrient problem in the original
planting that caused the stunting.

You can see some effects of mineral deficiencies in turnips at:
<http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/min-def/turnip.htm>

Cheers, Phred.

--
LID

It is a possibility. the OP should give it a try and put down a healthy
layer of manure this winter (that would adjust both the deficiency and
the pH). Is the soil clay? If so, the peat can provide early growing
room. But more important, I have had a number of situations with greens
(like tatsoi, chard, beet, cardoon, some cabbages and bok choi) where
they stalled and remained miserable. The causes I came up with (I have
sandy loam) were too little watering in the early going, too little
manure (humus and nitrogen) and too early/too late planting. These
little plants are fairly heavy feeders after all. Then there are bug
cycles. It looks like the miserable one ran into a generation or two of
caterpillars. If they get clipped when they are young, they will never
develop properly.

Right now I have two one foot sqaure patches of broccoli rabe. They are
separated by two feet, same bed, soil, and watering. One is three times
the size of the other, which is next to a stand of lemon balm. It could
be a bad companion, or it could be rodent tunnels underneath.

Single fixes do not often work in a garden. Systematic trials starting
from optimal conditions (late summer planting in Jiffy pots, high water
and manure) should allow the OP to find out how much he can get away
with. Hey, it takes five years to figure out how to manage a particular
garden.

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> Turnips like this one can be had in most grocery stores year round.
>
> So why did we select it as a Photo of the Week?
>
> js
>
> PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm
> Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems, Sausage,Silver
> http://schmidling.com

What a nice site.
I saw the bluebird page. Just a few words OT to say that there are many
bird houses for bluebirds along roads here in the countryside in Shenandoah,
VA. We learned that if a nest is not cleaned out thoroughly that they will
not raise a new family in it. We keep track (but not disturb them) of when
the birds leave after the first family leaves; my husband cleans thoroughly
the nest, and before long another family will come; one or two times, we had
three new families in one season. I don't know if you know this or not and
if it is one of the reasons. (Another reason my be that another bird --
forget the name -- that is arrogant -- will keep the bluebirds from settling
in. We had that happen once. There are several situations that cause this
to happen, but I can't remember them. There are remedies.
Dee Dee

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:52:11 -0600, Jack Schmidling >
connected the dots and wrote:

~simy1 wrote:
~> It is a possibility. the OP should give it a try and put down a
healthy
~> layer of manure this winter (that would adjust both the deficiency
and
~> the pH).
~
~First of all, what's and OP?

Original Poster

~How bout sheep manure? I actually tilled a pound or so into each ten
~foot row this spring.
~
~>Is the soil clay?
~
~Yes along with a glacial morain. Sort of like concrete.
~
~> But more important, I have had a number of situations with greens
~> (like tatsoi, chard, beet, cardoon, some cabbages and bok choi)
where
~> they stalled and remained miserable.....
~
~Cabbage and kholrobi do very well in the same garden but carrots do
very
~poorly.
~
~js