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At a guess I would say hot soil and drying out. I’ve had swedes be so woody no amount of cooking would soften them, they grew on the allotment so were more sporadically watered, as and when I could get there, and were left in the ground too long. I try and keep the soil damp just below the surface in the back garden, and keep them covered with a micro mesh as that seems to reduce the excess heat directly on the soil. Were these an early sowing that suffered with our very dry and hot spring?
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