How To Grow Swede With Quickcrop

Learn how to grow your own swede with this video tutoril from Quickcrop with expert vegetable grower Klaus Laitenberger. Swede is one of the easiest vegetables to grow and is well-suited to the novice gardener. They also crop over a very long time. This is because they can be left in the soil throughout the winter.
Swede is often confused with turnips but they have several advantages over the turnip. Firstly, they crop much later in the season and swede is well capable of withstanding very hard frosts. In addition, the swede is sweeter and milder.

More information on growing swede:

[donberry]

I have to lay off potatoes, so I have turned to Rutabagas. Taste great and less Carbs. I am trying to grow my own. Thanks for the video.

[paulredmond]

This is great, I live in Denmark and you just never see swede in the shop.

[thomasdd]

August is the perfect time to sow these for harvesting in February and March!

[nickuk]

Lovely, im learning so much from you guys and although this is my first year of growing i'm more than pleased with the results so far! My swedes are coming along well as are the onions, lettuce, spinich, cucumbers, carrots tomatoes, potatoes, leek and god knows what else! Only veg i've found a pain is the calabrese which i#ve learned does not like being transplanted (i've lost about 40% of them) but still have plenty to go around.

[Quickcrop]

mulching is good for weed suppression, grass clippings are a high nitrogen mulch, which is good for plants. The down side of mulching is that it provides hiding placee for slugs. A danger of grass clippings is if a lawn weed killer has been used on the grass it can kill the vegetable plants the mulch has been applied to.

[r.perkins]

Always good practical advice and I love your accent klaus.

[davidb]

Thank you so much for the video. He must have cut most of the leaves away for that last root shot, right? It would be helpful to show the whole plant in a "before" photo ... and then "after, " for transparency. In my experience, you need a HUGE leaf cover of solar area to get a large root like that one -- lots of photosynthesis in square inches/cm.

[srofficial]

When I first learned that the " Swede" or Rutabega or yellow turnip as they are sometimes called is a cross between a white  turnip and a cabbage I was shocked ? I love em . Although they take forever to boil up and cook once they are mashed up with butter salt and pepper theyre out of this world 

[calmauric]

I am growing cremegold swedes. They are going really well, but a few split and healed over. Lost only 1 so far to pests. Other 40 plants getting huge coming into spring

[OneEyePI]

I wish my seedlings would come on that far in 4 weeks!

[Quickcrop]

Yes it is indeed, although rutabaga isn't used so much in the British Isles

[arijitchakravarty]

Great video - informative and well presented ✅

[casper]

Alaways mix mine with carrots and a bit o butter lovely

[Leigh]

Today I pulled a couple I planted back in April,  variety Magres and they were terrible, tasted horrible too so I threw them in the compost. better luck next year for me hopefully.

[jimsgardenproject]

The last segment with the finished product. We’re they direct sown or from plugs??? Thanks 😊

[tkguyok]

Good information and instructions. Good presentation. Thank you for sharing.

[MistressOP]

those two weeds at the end drove me nuts lol. compost mulch!!! leaf mold mulch

[FrankEdavidson]

Round here (north UK) big ones are turnips, the small ones are swedes.

[bobbyorganicsthetattooedga]

Thanks for sharing this video just planting now

[dannypool]

we need to start rating them more not sure if it would grow in Cuba