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Root vegetables are always a bit magical. You don’t need to care for them as much, and the harvest is always a bit of a surprise! Species and varieties.

Caraway-Honey Roasted Parsnips with Pumpkin Seeds and Parsley

Caraway-Honey Roasted Parsnips with Pumpkin Seeds and Parsley

Side Dish
Skirret

Skirret: expert tips and planting advice

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Chinese artichoke

Chinese artichoke: varieties, planting and garden uses

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Seared Celeriac Steaks with Lentils and Mustard Cream

Seared Celeriac Steaks with Lentils and Mustard Cream

Main Dish
Deep crimson beetroot wedges piled on a pool of white horseradish cream, scattered with chopped walnuts, dill fronds and small beet leaves, on a pale ceramic plate

Salt-Baked Beetroot with Horseradish Cream, Walnuts and Dill

Starters
Store your root vegetables in damp sand—not the fridge

Store your root vegetables in damp sand—not the fridge

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Egypt beetroot

Flat of Egypt red beet, for an early summer harvest

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Sweet potato

Sweet potato, a crop that grows well in cool climates

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Helianthis - Helianthus strumosus

Helianthis, a root vegetable with beautiful flowers

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Vegetable patch with no maintenance

An effortless veggie garden

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Root parsley

Root parsley, the double-decker parsley

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Chufa roots with groundnuts forming

Chufa, a root vegetable that produces groundnuts

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Drought-resistant vegetables

25 Vegetables that resist drought and dry spells

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Parsnip at the market and other heirloom vegetables

Forgotten heirloom vegetables… rediscover the tastes of old!

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Mashua harvest

Mashua, the tuber nasturtium

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Chayote vine with fruits

Chayote, a run-around vine that’s edible all around

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Crop rotation in a vegetable patch

Rotate crops in the vegetable patch

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Jerusalem artichoke harvest with squash and other vegetables

Jerusalem artichoke, an effortless vegetable to grow

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Defend heirloom varieties

Saving heirloom vegetables… right in your own garden!

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Turnip-rooted chervil tubers ready to sprout

Turnip-rooted chervil, how to grow it

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Benefits of Jerusalem artichoke

Jerusalem artichoke: inulin, cooking ideas and traditional uses

Health
Black salsify

Black salsify, delicious heirloom root

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Germinated potatoes chopped up in quarters for more plants.

Germinating potatoes at the right time

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Dead leaf mulch

Use dead leaves to fertilize and protect plants

Special reports
delicous red beet

Beloved red beet, a delicious root vegetable

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A sliced vitelotte black potato on a fresh harvest shows its purple insides.

Vitelotte, or black vitelotte, the China truffle

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Red beet

Red beet, blood-red juice but no-sweat growing!

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Potato planting, care and harvest

Potato, how to grow and harvest potatoes

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parsnip

Parsnip, a delicious sweet flavor

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Radish

Radish: from sowing to harvest, how to grow it

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Black radish

Black radish, the winter radish

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Rutabaga

Rutabaga, all the tips on how to grow rutabaga

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