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.
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[@donberry6079]

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.

[@07thomasdd]

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

[@r.perkins2103]

Always good practical advice and I love your accent klaus.

[@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.

[@Div_Ann]

Great video, thanks for making it

[@Quickcrop]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@paulredmond1327]

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

[@nickuk911]

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.

[@davidb2206]

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.

[@Quickcrop]

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

[@Ana_crusis]

It is in the North of England. We grew up eating them. I love them mashed with black pepper and butter

[@pingupenguin2474]

It's quite common in Scotland. Traditional haggis is teamed with potatoes and Swede ( though we call it turnip or " neeps". Delicious combination ! )

[@calmauric8218]

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

[@arijitchakravarty8968]

Great video - informative and well presented ✅

[@jimsgardenproject3507]

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.

[@srofficial06]

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

[@donberry6079]

Try steaming them after cutting into small cubes. Maybe 15-30 min., depending on their size.

[@casper1240]

Alaways mix mine with carrots and a bit o butter lovely

[@Quickcrop]

Yes, great with the Sunday roast.

[@OneEyePI]

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

[@Quickcrop]

With the right conditions, and a portion of good luck, they will germinate into healthy seedlings.

[@FrankEdavidson]

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

[@Leigh33]

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.

[@jimsgardenproject3507]

How are you keeping caterpillars off

[@tally9821]

Thank you... Exactly what I needed!!

[@MistressOP]

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

[@Quickcrop]

Weeds tend to drive us all nuts!!!

[@joegardiner1161]

My invitation swede done poorly last year, very little swede & plenty foliage.? I normally plant 30-40 in previous years & half do well, in the same soil & attention

[@padraigward3553]

Do you take away some of the outer leaves of swede as they are growing

[@Quickcrop]

Hi, yes, we take them away when they start turning yellow, so as not to attract slugs. We do the same with other brassicas too.

[@dannypool7411]

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

[@Quickcrop]

They are easy to grow in most places and will germinate up to 40C. But they won't thrive if the temperature remains that high, because there are other growth stages that are more sensitive to heat.

[@Quickcrop]

thanks

[@bobbyorganicsthetattooedga3681]

Thanks for sharing this video just planting now

[@Quickcrop]

You're welcome, good luck with the plants.

[@jimsgardenproject3507]

I’ve tried twice this year. Spring crop and fall. Neither is swelled. My soil is all compost no dig. Soil test shows great soil nutrients. No amendment suggested. Any suggestions? Why aren’t they swelling. Very disappointing. Sown in modules, planted out in august sept.

[@tracycrider7778]

Maybe soil is too acidic?

[@charliejlavery]

Is that a donegal/Scandinavian accent? Brilliant haha

[@martinevans7771]

great video again thanks

[@Quickcrop]

+martin evans Again thanks for that Martin

[@martinevans7771]

Quickcrop no problem

[@tally9821]

Do these flower? Im growing some and they seem to be flowers at the tips.

[@davidb2206]

If the flower, eat them. Delicious, like broccoli.

[@GunnerGibbons]

thank you

[@Quickcrop]

+Chris Gibbons - You are very welcome Chris. Thanks for leaving a comment and taking time to watch our videos. If you have any suggestions for videos - do tell.

[@colette_447]

Mine got absolutely massacred !!! I lost all turnips too. Managed to save the swedes but there wasnt a leaf left on !!!

[@paulwoodcock764]

do they need netting ?

[@Quickcrop]

Swede are prone to pests but not from butterflies. www.quickcrop.co.uk/learning/plant/swede

[@murrayg.hibbard8402]

1. I'm growing these for the first time. I should've thinned them out before now. They are two months along now. Would I do more harm than good if I were to thin them now? 2. How sensitive to frost are they? I live in the Great Lakes region of Canada . . .

[@Ms123popcorn]

We just had multiple days of bad weather and snow it went up to -5°C (also in Canada) and mine are still going strong

[@roberterickson9885]

Where can you find rutabaga seeds

[@davidb2206]

Amazon and Walmart.

[@stealthtrees96]

is this like rutabagas?

[@Quickcrop]

Yes, some people also call them turnips.

[@Tallnerdyguy]

Turnips aren't rutabagas!!

[@Quickcrop]

Don't know where you are but they're called Turnip round here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga

[@happygillmore8210]

@@Tallnerdyguy depends who you ask and where they're from. Rutabagas are known as turnips in Ireland

[@Tallnerdyguy]

@@happygillmore8210 then what are turnips called? As a rutabaga is a hybrid between turnip and cabbage

[@leobaker644]

I would like to eat it because it's Dex the swede!

[@paulhatfield4543]

is swede another name for rutabaga?

[@jcwhimzie]

yes

[@Liverpoolfc2419]

Hi all. I planted my Swedes back in mid June. Now, I water every morning and evening. There is a lot of foliage on the surface but the " fruit" in the ground is very small. What can i do to have therm start growing bigger?

[@FrankEdavidson]

Perhaps a high nitrogen feed has led to excess green growth?

[@I.D-This]

This vid was about those plants from cells, yet you did not show the orig ones grown from cells, at this point I think this video has no context...

[@Gesundheit888]

This vegetable must be a turnip, yes?

[@Quickcrop]

It certainly is. Regards.

[@beverleymellor]

My whole crop was eaten by slugs 🐌😟

[@davidb2206]

Little empty cans of left-over beer. That will drown them quite nicely. If you don't drink, ask a friend who does.

[@eaglewolfff]

Bit of a bluff, I think. Swedes grow better in a field than in a garden. Why did you not show us the end result of the swedes you planted? Answers on a postcard... etc.

[@Quickcrop]

+eaglewolfff - The simple answer is - it was logisitics - It just worked out best - time wise to shoot the last sequence in the field for all of us concerned. Thanks for watching and leaving comments.