May to July Kohlrabi and Summer Turnips

Kohlrabi and summer turnips are both fast-growing brassicas. In the field they have an extraordinary vigour and speed of growth that makes them one of the earliest new season vegetables, with the first UK crops ready for harvest in late May or early dune. In the kitchen they both have a succulent tenderness and peppery sweetness that allows them to be grated, sliced or cut into matchsticks and eaten raw in salads, a bit like a radish. They are also delicious pickled or fermented as the Japanese or Koreans would treat a daikon or mouli. Turnips, with their firmer fiesh and stronger favour, are also happy roasted or used in stews.