Turnip Seeds

Turnip Seeds for Planting: Globe, Golden, and Green-Top Varieties

Turnips are fast, cold-hardy, and generous, giving you crisp roots and tender greens from a single sowing. Our collection of turnip seeds covers classic purple-top globes, mild white and golden types, a Japanese variety grown for both roots and leaves, and a green-top variety grown almost entirely for its leaves. They're all heirloom and open-pollinated, they handle cool weather easily, and most are ready in about two months or less, which makes turnips a great crop for spring and fall gaps in the garden.

Turnip Seed Varieties: Purple Top, White Egg, Golden Ball, and Shogoin

Purple Top White Globe is the standard turnip, with round roots that are creamy white below and purple where the shoulders meet the sun, and it's available from several suppliers here. White Egg is a mild, smooth, egg-shaped white turnip that's easy to love, and Golden Ball has golden skin and sweet, tender flesh that works well raw or cooked. Shogoin is a Japanese heirloom that does double duty, with large smooth white roots and plenty of leaf for greens. Seven Top (Southern Prize) is the one to grow if greens are the goal, since it's bred for a bounty of leaves rather than a big root. You can grow a root type and a greens type side by side and harvest both.

Growing Turnips from Seed: Sow Direct and Harvest Young

Turnips are cool-season crops, and the seed is quick to sprout, usually in under ten days. Direct sow in spring a few weeks before your last frost, or in late summer six to eight weeks before your first fall frost for a crop that tastes especially sweet after cool nights. Thin seedlings to about three or four inches apart so the roots have room to swell, and pull the roots at two to three inches across for the best texture. Listings in this collection show 31 to 60 days to maturity, so a quick spring crop and a fall crop both fit in a season. The Seedtime garden planning software builds a planting calendar around your frost dates for both seasons, and the layout planner helps you slot turnips in among slower crops that will take over the space once they're out.

Buy Turnip Seeds with One Shipping Charge

When you buy turnip seeds here, you can add seeds from multiple suppliers to the same order and pay one flat shipping charge, or qualify for free standard shipping on Seedtime-fulfilled orders of $49 or more to the lower 48 states. Paid Seedtime members get 20% off seed packets marked "Fulfilled by Seedtime" and 5% off everything else in the store. You can start planning for free, and if you want unlimited calendars and layouts along with those store discounts, compare Seedtime's plans to find the right fit. Whether you're browsing turnip seeds for sale for a single bed or a root and greens combination, it all ships together.