Growing turnips from seed

Usually 7-10 days. You think you may have planted them too deep? LSU AgCenter says plant seeds no deeper than 1/8 inch (as you know they are incredibly small). Soil temperature should be OK for germination

Between 10-14 days for turnip seeds to sprout, but don't be surprised if it takes a couple days longer. It also depends on how old the seeds were that you planted. I always buy fresh seed or use seed from the year before, but not older than that.

I'll use seeds dated 2019 but not older than that since the germination rate usually goes way down.

I direct sowed some seeds a week ago for sugar snaps and cucumbers and they haven't broken ground yet.

I plant them for deer. I will spread my oats and triticale into a disked seed bed.

Then I cultipack the field, then spread clovers and turnip seeds and cultipack again.

Works great everytime.

So 60°- 95° and max is 105°. I'll give it a few more days then.

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I think it may be the temperature is still too hot. I'll buy another pack this weekend.

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The temperature is what's keeping me from putting in my leaf lettuce, kale, Swiss chard and spinach seeds. I won't put them in the ground until the first week of October.

I transplanted broccoli and cabbage this past Saturday. So far so good. I finally found Cauliflower today.

I had no idea about the different varieties of broccoli. Are some better than others?

How old are your seeds. Cleggs has the 2020 seeds. Mine germinated on day 2. By day 4 they were an inch or so high. If you have bad seeds, start over. Turnips are the easiest veritable to grow in my opinion. When I can’t figure out what will grow in an area, I throw turnip seeds down and sure enough I have greens to cut in a month or so.

Not a reply to your question, but a young man we duck hunt with was bringing back a sack of turnip seeds on a flat bed truck. There was a rip in the sack and in a few months there was about a 4 mile stretch of two lane that had turnips growing pretty thick alongside the highway ditches.

Don’t ever underestimate the importance of watering the seed after planting, and keeping the seed bed wet. If you wet the seed and let it dry and it Dosent rain for a while the ground can get a hard crust and it won’t come up, or if it was planted to deep won’t come up. I’m in south ark and planted some in early August hot, very hot, and still came up.