Allotments 4 All

Revision as of 17:57, 8 May 2006

Retrieved from "http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Parsnip"

Planting

For anyone who's had problems - like me last year - with parsnips either not growing very large, or growing like alien multi-legged tennis balls (!!), I suggest you try what I did this year:

Get a big stake or fence post Chanfer off the corners to give you a reasonable point Push about 12"-15" into the ground, twist a bit, then pull out Fill hole with bagged compopst mixed about 3 parts compost to 2 parts sand Sow two seeds on the top of the compost/sand mix Make the next hole aobut 6" away from the edge of the first. Repeat. Cover the whole lot with a very thin sprinkling of more compost and sand mix

When they germinate, remove the weakest looking seedling (if both germinate)

I did this for the first time this year - to much ridicule from one of my fellow plot holders - and also sowed another lot as normal, in the same raised bed or well sifted soil.

Results?

The parsnips sown in the dibbed holes we universally long, straight and nearly all a decent size (about 10" to 12" long, about 2" to 3" across at the top.

The others grew well, but several are small and stunted, several have multiple appendages, and none are as big as the other lot.

All were Tender & True.

Allotments 4 All

User Info

Navigation

Search

Tools

Difference between revisions of "Parsnip"

From Allotments4All

Revision as of 17:57, 8 May 2006

Planting

@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 [[Monthly planner]]
-reason for present empty page
+Retrieved from "http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Parsnip"
-Nothing has been written about this crop yet but I thought it would be a good idea to put the page up so that links to the same crop page develop in both the List of vegetables to grow and the Monthly planner. This should reduce the chance of us getting one page written as 'Tomato' and another written as 'Tomatoes' and another written as 'Tomato Plants'.
+==Planting==
-If its any help, titles for new pages in Wikipedia seem to include a capital letter on the first word of the title and all following letters are in lower case i.e. 'Brussels sprout' rather than 'Brussel Sprout' or 'brussels sprout'
+For anyone who's had problems - like me last year - with parsnips either not growing very large, or growing like alien multi-legged tennis balls (!!), I suggest you try what I did this year:
-As soon as the first crop details go on this page this bit of text can be dumped.
+Get a big stake or fence post
+Chanfer off the corners to give you a reasonable point
+Push about 12"-15" into the ground, twist a bit, then pull out
+Fill hole with bagged compopst mixed about 3 parts compost to 2 parts sand
+Sow two seeds on the top of the compost/sand mix
+Make the next hole aobut 6" away from the edge of the first.
+Repeat.
+Cover the whole lot with a very thin sprinkling of more compost and sand mix
-Retrieved from "http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Parsnip"
+When they germinate, remove the weakest looking seedling (if both germinate)
+I did this for the first time this year - to much ridicule from one of my fellow plot holders - and also sowed another lot as normal, in the same raised bed or well sifted soil.
+Results?
+The parsnips sown in the dibbed holes we universally long, straight and nearly all a decent size (about 10" to 12" long, about 2" to 3" across at the top.
+The others grew well, but several are small and stunted, several have multiple appendages, and none are as big as the other lot.
+All were Tender & True.