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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Broadleaf
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Fall
Underground structures: Taproot
Uses: Vegetable
Edible Parts: Roots
Eating Methods: Cooked
Dynamic Accumulator: P (Phosphorus)
Ca (Calcium)
S (Sulfur)
Mn (Manganese)
Zn (Zinc)
Cu (Copper)
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Days to germinate: 10 to 21
Pollinators: Self
Bees
Parentage: Dates back to 1800s Vertus, a city in Northeast France. It is commonly called just Vertus Marteau.

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Common names
  • Turnip
Also sold as:
  • Vertus Marteau

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