!! SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

BEL #830

Here's a research video I cut together after fellow Boot Esteban and I found an enormous, currently-unidentified vegetable growing just outside the Library.



Thanks for watching, and enjoy your day...!

Monsteraikonabi?

I think your theory of mutant cross pollination is very likely here. I get all kinds of weird brassicas popping up like cauliflower + purple sprouting broccoli, and my broadleaf mustard appears to either crossed with a purple cabbage or spontaneously thrown out a bronze-leafed strain (which is really nice to have so I've been saving seed from it).

I used to grow a lot of daikon in my cool-season garden in Tucson. When we had rainy winters, like a couple of years in the early '90s, they went nuts and the root grew as much up out of the ground as it did beneath the surface. I would harvest some that stood up to mid-thigh height when I pulled them and the tips were snapped off so I know there was still more in the ground.

The video came up in my YT feed.  My first thought was turnip, although the colour is different than any turnip / rutabaga I've seen.

What was the taste test like?

The big boy had almost exactly the same mass as my biggest golden beet.  Of course, if you trimmed the leaf stalks, the beet would outweigh it