Too Many Turnips - AR15.COM

Posted: 11/15/2012 1:35:00 PM EDT

For some reason I have the biggest turnip crop I have ever had. I have taken 8 5 gallon buckets full out of it so far and that was just off of 1 edge. I preserve turnips in straw and they stay fresh until it starts getting warm but this year I am looking for something new. I have heard of TurnipKraut but haven't ever made the stuff. I have found a couple recipes by searching google but I was just wondering if any of you have ever made it or have some other way to can them. I would bet there are 100 5 gallon buckets of turnips in the garden and I hate to see stuff go to waste.

Posted: 11/15/2012 2:29:37 PM EDT

[#1]

You don't have a surplus of turnips, you have a shortage of pigs.

Posted: 11/15/2012 2:38:10 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
You don't have a surplus of turnips, you have a shortage of pigs.

No I have those too. I was just looking for a way for me to be able to eat them.

Posted: 11/15/2012 3:19:42 PM EDT

[#3]

I just slice them up and eat them raw, snack on them constantly. I don't have truckloads though. Just stew them up.

Posted: 11/15/2012 3:41:47 PM EDT

[#4]

Make Şalgam

Posted: 11/16/2012 8:03:16 AM EDT

[#5]

farmers market? trade them for something else

Posted: 11/16/2012 11:39:14 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
farmers market? trade them for something else

Farmers markets around here are only around from early spring to early October.

I have been searching around and think I have found a recipe that I am going to try. Going to try a small batch at first to see if I even like it before I make a bunch though.

Posted: 11/16/2012 11:39:54 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Make Şalgam

Good idea but I don't drink

Posted: 11/18/2012 4:23:35 PM EDT

[#8]

I don't have nothing to add to this thread other than to say the first buck I ever killed back on November 21, 1979 I was leaning against a tree eating a turnip I had just peeled. This thread brought back that memory since tomorrow is the first day of buck rifle season. The 21st will be a on a Wednesday this year also.

Posted: 11/18/2012 4:38:19 PM EDT

[#9]

Dehydrate them and make turnip chips.
should keep for years in a vacuum seal bag.

Posted: 11/18/2012 8:33:28 PM EDT

[#10]

deer LOVE turnips especially after a hard frost. leave a rifle by the back door and turn excess turnips into venison

Posted: 11/20/2012 12:33:51 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
deer LOVE turnips especially after a hard frost. leave a rifle by the back door and turn excess turnips into venison

What I was thinking too. Turn it into protein

Posted: 11/21/2012 11:42:54 AM EDT

[#12]

Check with the produce manager at a grocery store. You may be able to sell them.

Posted: 11/22/2012 1:01:59 PM EDT

[#13]

Keep the root.

Just send me the GREEN'S !

Posted: 11/22/2012 1:19:56 PM EDT

[#14]

You might try selling some to a local grocery store.
If I were closer I'd buy a bucketful from you!

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