Vegetable / Cool season
Purple Top White Globe Turnip
Fast shoulder-season root crop for spring and fall beds.
Mild roots when young plus edible greens.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 55
- Germination temperature
- 50-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 4 inches
- Row spacing
- 12 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 21 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 14 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 4 inches in-row spacing, 12 inches between rows, and 0.5 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Heat and crowding make roots sharp and pithy. Even water keeps roots from becoming woody. Loose soil with steady fertility.
Is it still worth sowing this year?
Every region this site covers (Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA) publishes a turnip planting window, so the answer for this variety is already dated. No other region is covered yet.
- Is it too late to sow Purple Top White Globe Turnip in Texas this year? AgriLife lists turnip for Texas (AgriLife Region III); the page measures that window against this variety's 55 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Check Purple Top White Globe Turnip against the North Florida first frost date UF/IFAS lists turnip for North Florida; the page measures that window against this variety's 55 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Is it too late to sow Purple Top White Globe Turnip in Central Maryland this year? UMD Extension lists turnip for Central Maryland; the page measures that window against this variety's 55 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Check Purple Top White Globe Turnip against the New York City first frost date Cornell CCE lists turnip for the New York City area; the page measures that window against this variety's 55 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Is it too late to sow Purple Top White Globe Turnip in York County, PA this year? Penn State Extension lists turnip for York County, Pennsylvania; the page measures that window against this variety's 55 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Even water keeps roots from becoming woody.
- Soil
- Loose soil with steady fertility.
- Watch
- Heat and crowding make roots sharp and pithy.
- roots
- greens
- brassica
- fall
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Mustard Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Quick-Maturity Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide