92 GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLES 



" ' People may eat kohl-rabi without any apprehension or 

 fear of the results, 5 added Professor Keeble, ' but, like all 

 vegetables, it needs to be properly cooked.' * 



A cookery expert informs the Daily Express that 

 kohl-rabi should be cooked thoroughly until quite soft. 

 Special attention should be paid to peeling and cleansing, 

 after which the kohl-rabi should be soaked for about an 

 hour in cold salted water to free it from impurities, but 

 not longer, otherwise some of the useful salts might be 

 lost. The water in which it is to be cooked should be 

 boiling briskly, and be enough to cover thoroughly the 

 contents of the pot, and sufficient salt should be added 

 to season the water. 



The Turnip, the last brassica which we shall mention in 

 this chapter, is a vegetable all should grow as it may be 

 raised on ground which might otherwise be standing idle. 

 The period of growth is short, being about six weeks ; 

 thus an early catch crop may be sown and harvested 

 from a plot intended for summer lettuces or we may 

 utilise the space from which winter broccoli has been 

 cleared. (As the turnip and broccoli are both members 

 of the cabbage family, it is an obvious violation of the 

 laws of rotation to sow the former on such a clearing, 

 but it is a violation which may be well practised when our 

 aim should be to get every possible ounce of food out of 

 the ground.) A late crop is obtainable by sowing on the 

 bed where the runner beans stood. 



The best turnips are those which have been grown 

 quickly ; therefore we must select a bed in which the 

 earth is not of poor quality. A rich sandy loam, well 

 limed and not dry, suits them admirably. The spot 



