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Welcome to the new root crops forum - Lets dig it!

This forum is for discussing issues growing all sorts of root crops:






Note there are separate forums for potatoes and alliums, but other roots crops belong here!

If you find a thread that belongs in the root crops forum that we missed, please report it, or reply with a link to it below. Thanks!!!

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Yay! Thanks for doing all the work to make this happen!

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I'll bet we will unearth some good stuff in this forum.

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Wow!  Thanks for this.  I know “nothing“ about root crops, haven’t been particularly successful with them, and don’t know of any edible wild roots.

I am ready for a new adventure.

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Well done, Nancy!! Thank you!!

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Thanks Nancy for starting this forum !

I was just thinking about my root crops for this coming year, (while sitting in my hot tub that overlooks one of my gardens).

I planted Daikon radishes a couple years ago in an area I wanted to loosen the soil up in.  They were doing their job well until the deer ate the tops and the moles ate the roots.  I guess they did their job as I think the soil was to hard for moles to go through.

I have always loved root crops as they are so easy to grow.  That being said, I did a plant rotation this past spring and planted my beets in a different location.  Same amount of light, water and I thought the soil was about the same.  Nope, did not harvest one beet this year.  Greens didn't even get big enough to harvest.

So are carrots going to be ok in this forum?  Sorry if I ramble on, 2 cups of coffee this am.

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I love how new forums make it easier to find things -- thanks for putting in all the work!
 
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Many thanks Nancy!

Root crops are my favorite:

Wild sasparilla

sunchokes for compacted soil and poor, acidic, overly shaded areas

German rooted parsley (the only parsley I have success with)

Carrots for slopes and their greens, and the parisienne little round ones I learned to grow in almost-concrete 😂

All kinds of radishes both raw and cooked

Still working on success with ground nuts

And now the all elusive Springbank clover to add !!
 
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Thank you.  Root crops are my favorite.

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Dennis Barrow wrote:So are carrots going to be ok in this forum?  



Carrots, parsnips, beets, sunroots, all the things that Ra mentioned and anything else I missed!

I had a rotten year for root crops too - just about managed a few thin parsnip. My perennial roots did OK though - skirret is really tasty. Silverweed is very nice too, but I find it a bit more effort to harvest.

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Nice, a root vegetable forum. Makes it easier for me to find how to grow carrots and beets (always difficult to me). And I can share photos of my parsnips and sunchokes (maybe I'll think of taking photos of them) ... and of my groundnuts (Apios americana) ...


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Will pull some yacon soon will get some pictures and start a thread.

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Time to celebrate the sweet new root veg forum.  Play the party music; turnip the beet.

But seriously, this forum is a great addition.

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Thank you for doing the work that it takes to make a forum.

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Play the party music; turnip the beet.
Tim... that was priceless! Gotta love a good pun
 
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Jfound a photo of my turnips (earlier this year), yummie root vegetable too:

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This is AWESOME!
I've grown potatoes before and love the excitement of it.
I'm curious to learn more about other types of root crops. I'm going to go looking for the sunchokes forum.......

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Love growing root vegetables! My only difficulty has been keeping them over the winter. Been jonesing for a root cellar since forever. This year I decided I already had one—-my crawl space! Successfully storing potatoes, carrots, burdock, parsnips. Feel like my grandma!! 😉😂
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The dailyish drew attention to r ranson's mangelwurzel thread,, (chard with giant root) and I never thought I would give them a try, being I don't have grazers, but apparently they can be delicious and of course low maintenance so, being a chard fanatic, I am getting some seeds.

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Nancy Reading wrote:

Dennis Barrow wrote:So are carrots going to be ok in this forum?  



Carrots, parsnips, beets, sunroots, all the things that Ra mentioned and anything else I missed!

I had a rotten year for root crops too - just about managed a few thin parsnip. My perennial roots did OK though - skirret is really tasty. Silverweed is very nice too, but I find it a bit more effort to harvest.



Hi Nancy,
What does skirret taste like and how do you prepare it?  I planted 2 starts this past year in a new food forest strip and it took off!  Thanks, Julie
 
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Julie Horney wrote:Hi Nancy,
What does skirret taste like and how do you prepare it?  I planted 2 starts this past year in a new food forest strip and it took off!  Thanks, Julie


Glad to hear your skirret is doing well. It has a slightly sweet taste like a very bland parsnip. My husband likes it and he doesn't really like parsnip, so there isn't much flavour to it I guess. Preparing it is the tricky bit for me too. I usually just wash the roots and boil them in a little water like I would other root crops, but they tend to get a bit mushy this way so I'm hoping to try it a few more ways this year - I feel a new thread is needed!

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New thread on Skirret here: https://permies.com/t/271966/root-crops/Lets-talk-Skirret

 
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