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Turnip
Purple Top Milan
Purple Top Milan is a flat-rooted heritage turnip with distinctive purple shoulders and white flesh, fast-maturing and very popular in Italy and France. It has a sweet, delicate flavour when harvested young and is well suited to early spring or autumn sowing. The colourful roots are as attractive as they are tasty.
Key facts
- Growth habit
- round root
- Produce type
- root
- Support
- none
- Sun
- full sun
- Days to harvest
- 40–80 days
- Avg. yield
- 100-200 g per root
- Watering
- medium
- Frost sensitivity
- low
For all turnip issues and threats, see the Turnip page.