Turnips and Swede-Turnips

Swedes differ from turnips in that the flesh is orange in colour, and not the pure white of that of the turnip. Swedes have a sweeter, milder flavour than the turnip. There are two varieties of turnip —the summer ones, which do not store well and are pulled when about the size of a tennis ball, and main-crop turnips, which are much larger in size and are left in the ground or pulled about November for storage. Swedes are left in the ground to mature fully and are always large in size.