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Hi guys i pulled up my first few parsnips over the weekend, and its the first time i have grown them. Though they tasted fine, a couple of them had a few side shoots coming of them, and i was wondering what causes this and is there anyway off stopping in the future.
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Hello little green man,
Parsnips have a habit of forking especially if the ground has too much manure in it. They just can;t work out which tasty morsle to go after so can finish up looking like demented spiders.
The best way is, I have found, is to make a funnel shaped hole with a metal rod in ground that was manured for a crop LAST year. Fill it with fine soil and then sow 5 or 6 parsnips on the top. Thin to one when they are large enough.
Best of luck, it works for me
Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet -
Thanks for the advice.Comment
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