A harvest of mixed root vegetables and tubers -- potatoes, carrots and beetroot -- in a home vegetable garden
Vegetables

Root Vegetables & Tubers

Vegetables/Root Vegetables & Tubers

Grouped here because they're all grown mainly for what's happening underground, not because they're related -- potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, beetroot and the rest come from entirely different plant families, so what applies to one rarely applies to the others. Seed-saving in particular varies enormously across this group: some regrow from a piece of root or tuber rather than true seed at all, and cross-pollination risk (where it exists) is specific to each crop's own family, not shared across the category the way it is with brassicas.

Potato Guide available
Sweet Potato Guide available
Carrot Guide available
Beetroot Guide available
Parsnip Guide available
Swede / Rutabaga Guide available
Turnip Guide available
Celeriac Guide available
Salsify Guide available
Radish Guide available
Jerusalem Artichoke Guide available
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These crops aren't botanically related, so treat each one's seed-saving and cross-pollination guidance separately. Potatoes, sweet potatoes and Jerusalem artichoke are grown from tubers rather than true seed at all; carrot, parsnip and celeriac share a family but different genera, and can cross with wild relatives like Queen Anne's lace; swede, turnip and radish each have their own isolation needs despite superficially resembling brassicas. Full detail is on each crop's own page above.