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Alaska

FYI Pumpkin Shepherd a Rutabaga/Swede is NOT a TURNIP.

6/27/2013 5:27:38 PM

Georgetown, Ontario

WOW.....an email would have sufficed. Thanks for clearing that up. Sorry to have confused the entire country.

6/27/2013 5:43:05 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

lol
You have been schooled

6/27/2013 8:54:09 PM

South Hero, VT

I didn't know that. Now I do. Thanks.

6/27/2013 8:55:09 PM

Albert County, New Brunswick,CANADA

I have had this argument at a bar over beer. Grocery stores only recently here started calling them by their proper name. Not sure how it all started but rutabagas are common all year long in my area in Canada since they store well all winter,but turnips....well I've never seen them at the market so maybe thats why none knows any difference exists.

6/27/2013 9:24:04 PM

Johnston, Iowa

Jesus! You say tomayto I say tomawto.

6/27/2013 11:59:41 PM

Alaska

Turnips are self incompatible rutabagas are not. Turnips have a scratchy prickly leaf rutabagas are smooth. And get this rutabagas are twice as large in weight. So it is important to get it right. Not to long ago a club sponsored weigh off in Canada was excepting rutabagas as turnips and Zucca gourds as zucchini. Both were not properly classed and had the potential to screw up the records. Please get it right. Thanks Scott.

6/28/2013 2:33:45 AM

BC, Canada

I guess you know it but;
A rutabaga is a cross between a turnip and a cabbage and I believe it carries both sets of genes.
In my family growing up it was clear, turnips were "Irish apples" and rutabagas were "rooty buggers"
for whatever that's worth.

6/28/2013 3:40:59 AM

Alaska

Sorry if I offended you Pumpkin Shepherd didn't mean to.

6/28/2013 4:29:30 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Would now be a good time to bring up growers who say punkin vs pumpkin? Drives my wife crazy :)

6/28/2013 7:35:37 AM

Central NY

What's the heck is a puMPkin?

6/28/2013 11:33:09 AM

Upa Creek, MO

Spud, what does this have to do with the GOP and why is it their fault?

6/29/2013 9:08:24 AM

N.c.

Dick Cheney was actually responsible for the secret program that spliced cabbage genes onto turnips. The result being that while turnips remain ambrosia, rutabagas not so much.

6/29/2013 9:41:01 AM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

I would have thought it was George Bush's fault.

6/29/2013 10:14:19 AM

Alaska

OMG the GOP train rears its ugly head. Hey comrade Luke of Smallmouth.

6/29/2013 1:47:48 PM

Torrance, Ca.

Its like winter over here:)

6/29/2013 6:13:06 PM

Upa Creek, MO

Nah, Spud and I are just joking. Deep summer here, and I look to have a pollination tomorrow.

6/29/2013 6:20:05 PM