I have not actually tried mine yet this year I tend to leave them in the ground and dig as required. I was a bit late sowing this year as I was away in March so I don't expect them as big as yours Scroggin.
I have some Guernsey and White Gem parsnip seeds I didn't sow last spring as the veggie plot wasn't ready for them. Do I take it they are unlikely to germinate and make crop this coming year?
Given that I can get parsnips here thru winter and not have the storage problems, maybe I should grow things I don't find here - spring greens, purple sprouting, cavolo nero........
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The generally accepted rule with Parsnip seed is that it needs to be fresh (that seasons) seed for good germination but I have used year old seed before. Germination may be a bit patchy but well worth a try.
Given that I can get parsnips here thru winter and not have the storage problems, maybe I should grow things I don't find here - spring greens, purple sprouting, cavolo nero........
I would. It has to make sense to grow the things that either you can't get in shops or that are disproportionately expensive or that just don't taste the same from a shop. Things that taste perfectly good and are reasonably cheap you may as well buy - white onions, for example. I grow parsnips because the supermarket ones are a bit chewy round here. If we had a decent fresh produce market nearby, I'd probably buy them rather than grow them
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Hello , Been to allotment this morning and dug up veg for weekend , parsnips looking good should have put more in , cheap in s/m but not as tasty , dug up jureslum Artichokes , beetroot , leeks which have done well , infact to 2 beds and some sprouts but very small this year
We grow veg / fruit for flavour and it is organic , living in a semi rural area , with lots of farms , we see what is sprayed on the fields
Yesterday, brought last half bag of Cara home from plots- they suffered a lot with slugs this year so rather more wastage than I would like. On to Mozart next they are much better. Dug first parsnips of season they are big this year Scroggin, similar to your pic. Picked sprouts & some leeks. Leeks seem to have suffered from leek moth this year for first time- Another pest to deal with.
Spent the morning peeling, chopping, blanching and freezing just over 4kg of parsnips - those were the damaged ones that won't store (mostly the really huge ones I couldn't get out of the ground cleanly ). There's at least twice that weight again in good keepers. Never had such a big harvest of them - I guess the weather has suited them this year.
I need to look up parsnip recipes
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
will dig up some sunchokes before the snow falls. Still getting through 5 of winter squashes Crown prince harvested this year, they are fabulous with venision sausages.
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I have not actually tried mine yet this year I tend to leave them in the ground and dig as required. I was a bit late sowing this year as I was away in March so I don't expect them as big as yours Scroggin.
I have some Guernsey and White Gem parsnip seeds I didn't sow last spring as the veggie plot wasn't ready for them. Do I take it they are unlikely to germinate and make crop this coming year?
Given that I can get parsnips here thru winter and not have the storage problems, maybe I should grow things I don't find here - spring greens, purple sprouting, cavolo nero........
Last edited: 29 November 2017 12:05:20
The generally accepted rule with Parsnip seed is that it needs to be fresh (that seasons) seed for good germination but I have used year old seed before. Germination may be a bit patchy but well worth a try.
I always sow my seeds on the 1st. June. . Although one year it was very cold and I showed them on the 15th.
I would. It has to make sense to grow the things that either you can't get in shops or that are disproportionately expensive or that just don't taste the same from a shop. Things that taste perfectly good and are reasonably cheap you may as well buy - white onions, for example. I grow parsnips because the supermarket ones are a bit chewy round here. If we had a decent fresh produce market nearby, I'd probably buy them rather than grow them
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Hello , Been to allotment this morning and dug up veg for weekend , parsnips looking good should have put more in , cheap in s/m but not as tasty , dug up jureslum Artichokes , beetroot , leeks which have done well , infact to 2 beds and some sprouts but very small this year
We grow veg / fruit for flavour and it is organic , living in a semi rural area , with lots of farms , we see what is sprayed on the fields
Yesterday, brought last half bag of Cara home from plots- they suffered a lot with slugs this year so rather more wastage than I would like. On to Mozart next they are much better. Dug first parsnips of season they are big this year Scroggin, similar to your pic. Picked sprouts & some leeks. Leeks seem to have suffered from leek moth this year for first time- Another pest to deal with
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Spent the morning peeling, chopping, blanching and freezing just over 4kg of parsnips - those were the damaged ones that won't store (mostly the really huge ones I couldn't get out of the ground cleanly
). There's at least twice that weight again in good keepers. Never had such a big harvest of them - I guess the weather has suited them this year.
I need to look up parsnip recipes
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
will dig up some sunchokes before the snow falls. Still getting through 5 of winter squashes Crown prince harvested this year, they are fabulous with venision sausages.