Vegetable Description: This vegetable is great for winter storage! American Purple Top rutabagas produce large, round, yellow roots with a purple crown. Fine flavored flesh is firm and sweet and turns orange when cooked. This easy to grow variety matures in approximately 90 days. Self sows freely and may be invasive, deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings. This plant requires consistently moist soil, and is attractive to bees, butterflies, and/or birds.

Vegetable Botanical Name: Brassica napus var. napobrassica

Other Common Names: Swede 'American Purple Top'

Vegetable Duration: Biennial

Vegetable Days to Maturity: 90

Vegetable Seeds Per Oz: 11800

Vegetable Height: 12” to 24”

Vegetable Spacing: 2” to 4”

Vegetable Planting: Direct sow outside in early spring. Can be fall planted. Plant about 4” apart and 1/4“ below soil surface. Can sow closer, then thin later. Rows should be spaced at 18”-24” apart.

Vegetable Seed Saving: Allow seed heads to dry on plants; then remove heads, break them open, and collect seeds. Clean and dry the seeds before storage in cool dry conditions.