Where I hunt, planting crops such as rape or kale or turnips (I suspect rutabeggas as well) this time of year is a waste. These will not do well in the heat and drought of our typical summer. It is altready hitting 90+ and has been bone dry for aobut 3 weeks.

Certain perennial clovers do good year round. In fact there are about 12 acres of three different varieties of perennial clover going great now in our food plots.

Come fall, turnips go into the mix of what we plant. Once the frost hits the turnips and the roots start to sweeten up, deer bomb them. Never tried rutabeggas or beets. We just finished planting about 15 more acres in summer stuff .... mostly sunn hemp. Some Quail Haven, some Chufas and some red hemp. Got about 1 acre left to do. We are trying Tiosente' there. Just as an experiment to see how it does.