American Purple Top Rutabaga (Swede)

120 days — 'American Purple Top' is a standard market variety in the United States and has been since at least the 19th century! Its roots are nearly globe shaped, four to six inches in diameter with twenty inch tall tops. The skin is a buff to light yellow color with purple tops. The flesh is firm and fine grained.

'American Purple Top' is an improved strain of 'Purple Top Yellow' and is a very old variety. Searching the horticultural library, the oldest mention of it that we found was an advertisement in the March, 1862 edition of the American Agriculturalist by R. H. Allen Seed Company of New York. By the late 1800s, many seedsmen began listing it in their catalogs as 'American Purple Top' or 'Improved American Purple Top'. Each packet contains one gram, which is approximately 250 seeds.