Turnips are an easy-to-grow cool-season vegetable that produces a crop of cold-hardy, edible greens and a root that can be eaten raw, cooked, or pickled. Turnips are a form of Brassica rapa, the same ...

Produce stands showcase the large variety of vegetables that thrive on cool weather and tend to taste sweeter following a light frost. Many of these vegetables store up energy in the form of starches.