turnip-sick

Updated: May 6, 2025

But now some of the land is getting 'turnip-sick, the roots come stringy and small and useless, so that many let it 'vall down. After the last crop it is left alone, the couch grows, the docks spread out from the hedges, every species of weed starts up, till by-and-by the ploughed land becomes green and is called pasture.

Richard Jefferies - Round About a Great Estate