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Making a V-shaped trench and filling it with compost when planting 'snip seed produces decent sized roots!
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Making a V-shaped trench and filling it with compost when planting 'snip seed produces decent sized roots!
When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!
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Well done you, they're fabulous!Granny on the Game in Sheffield -
Lummy! That's awesome!! Well done ct!!Comment
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If i liked parsnips that would look awesome! Think they are about the only thing I don't like come to think of it.
Excellent specimen though, well done!
SteveComment
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Great looking specimens!
paul.Help Wildlife.
Take only photos-leave only footprints-Kill only time.Comment
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By heck thats big!WPC F Hobbit, Shire policeComment
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I put the magazine next to it so you'd have some idea of scale! I was expecting it to be very woody, but having cut the cankery bit off and peeled it, it cooked up beautifully and made a lovely heap of parsnip mash. Didn't have to add butter or nutmeg or anything, the flavour was brill. So chuffed!When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!Comment
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Glad it tasted as nice as it looked.
Location....East Midlands.Comment
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I just direct sow mine into a bed and every year they come up like yours, far too big for my liking. They have done so from the first year I got my plot, so from my experience it boils down to luck of having the right soil. As they get no attention from me, other than a watering when sown.Comment
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Brill. We did one trench then got fed up and made planting holes with a pole , works just as well . and you're not filling a whole trnch with the compost.
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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I wouldn't normally have left these ones in so long. I couldn't get them out of the ground at Christmas - had to BUY SOME for Christmas dinner!When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!Comment
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I had big 'uns like that before Christmas. ( Don't mean to sound like I'm boasting
) I was worried that they'd taste woody but they were fine......
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
You can't beat a bit of garden pornComment
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There are always some who want to rain on your parade....
I think your parsnip is FANTASTIC! In the thumbnail I thought that was a seed packet, not a magazine!! I hope mine grow as well as yours, I will definately follow your advice.Comment
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My challenge for this year is parsnips that look like parsnips so I was going to try the trench/planting holes method. I was going to use leafmould mixed with sand as have plenty of those
How far apart did you sow them in the trench?Comment
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