Celebrate roots!  Roots are delicious!

Celebrate roots.  Now is the time to seed these delicious options to have a late fall bounty.

Turnips, rutabagas, carrots, beets, parsnips, and radishes are all root crops that love cool weather, store well, and provide colorful, bountiful fall harvests right up until your first fall frost and even beyond.

Cold-hardy crops, such as most root vegetables, are better able to survive freezing and below freezing temperatures because their sugar content increases as the weather becomes cooler in late summer and fall. Since sugar water freezes at a lower temperature than water, their increased sugars act as a natural anti-freeze and the difference is delicious! That’s why many gardeners find fall-harvested carrots’ and parsnips’ sweet flavor paramount to their summer-harvested counterparts. In many regions, carrots and parsnips can even be overwintered in the garden for a winter harvest or an early spring harvest-when gardeners are most anxious for garden freshness.

Check out our Botanical Interests’ extensive root vegetable selection to sowroot crops in late summer and early fall, available at our Greenhouse in Pleasantview, Kansas. You’ll ensure a cornucopia of diversity on your fall-winter plate!