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In article >, Todd >
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> Got a month or so more before the bulbs get full size. The
> Golden Globes are "suppose" (note weasel word) to taste more
> like potatoes and less like stale radishes. The greens I
> tasted made my eyes water and had a nasty aftertaste. I am
> thinking of just drying them and plowing them under.
>
> I wonder if the pungent oils in the leave keep bugs away?


My local woodchuck leaves my turnip greens alone, but I suspect that's
because he doesn't have a kitchen in his burrow.

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