A Winter Garden - Parsnips

Yesterday I spent a pleasant couple of hours at the veg plot, taking down the sweet pea nets, dismantling the runner bean supports and digging up a few parsnips for Sunday lunch.

I sowed them way back in March on one of the rare days when it didn't rain. I didn't hold out much hope for them, but, surprisingly, they thrived. Two rows is plenty for our household if they all germinate - and they did. But, on digging up a few from each row, I was surprised at the difference between them.

One row were perfect, well, almost perfect, specimens - they hadn't quite filled out all the way down the root - a bit top heavy you could say - but they were a really good size.
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Comment by Colin Robinson on October 22, 2012 at 20:49: I hope you'll be trying the flower bucket technique next year, Elaine. I've been absolutely amazed at the parsnip crop I'm getting this year.

Comment by elaine rickett on October 22, 2012 at 22:09: I think I will have to as I'm trying not to dig this winter and I'm not sure the root crops will like it.

Comment by Stephen Shirley on October 24, 2012 at 20:18: Have you guys had a frost yet? Haven't touched our until we have a 'proper frost!

Comment by elaine rickett on October 24, 2012 at 22:11: Yes we have had a frost - I'm not sure it makes that much of a difference to the taste, the ones I have eaten already have been plenty sweet enough.

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