For a fairly low-maintenance crop, the root vegetable can yield an impressive and nutritious harvest, and is surely due an influencer-rebrand soon My third column on edible plants that I don’t actually grow myself is about one that I do not loathe, as I do celeriac , nor love, as I do sweetcorn . It is the swede, a root vegetable I would describe as “fine”. Also known as neeps or rutabaga, swedes are hardy vegetables, related to the turnip and part of the brassica family. For a fairly low-mainte