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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: GRACELAND on March 23, 2011, 16:30:00

Title: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: GRACELAND on March 23, 2011, 16:30:00: Parsnips I usually grow Tender n true or White gem

and i thought i did last year but just dud the last bit of row and maybe i planed some other ones if so i forgot See pic there more rounded and on know what type they could be ??

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(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv277/GRACELAND_01/P1150430.jpg)

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv277/GRACELAND_01/P1150431.jpg)
(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv277/GRACELAND_01/P1150432.jpg)
Title: Re: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: brownowl23 on March 23, 2011, 16:46:41: Thats funny that exactly how my tender and true one came out too
Title: Re: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: GRACELAND on March 23, 2011, 16:51:57: Quote from: brownowl23 on March 23, 2011, 16:46:41
Thats funny that exactly how my tender and true one came out too

good at least i,m not losing my mind ;D
Title: Re: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: Pescador on March 23, 2011, 17:21:20: Were the round ones grown in peat pots/loo rolls? That's the only time I've had them like that
Title: Re: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: brownowl23 on March 23, 2011, 17:30:41: No mine were grown straight in the ground, just been dug over.
Title: Re: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: bionear2 on March 23, 2011, 18:19:32: Mine were just the same, I had put it down to being a late sowing. Anyone remember whose seeds they used?
Title: Re: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: GRACELAND on March 23, 2011, 18:31:31: Quote from: brownowl23 on March 23, 2011, 17:30:41
No mine were grown straight in the ground, just been dug over.

Yep mine were grown the same , Can't think of who's they were now though
Title: Re: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: powerspade on March 24, 2011, 07:35:28: They probably hit a hard spot in the soil or a stone
Title: Re: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: knottygal on March 24, 2011, 08:41:33: Dug the last of my Tender but true up - they were germinated in loo rolls.
Was an interesting harvest :o
Thats a 2p coin in the pic for scale, so reckon that's a goose egg...?

(http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv179/knottygal/175260_1753622077670_1152453026_31890383_8115242_o.jpg)
Title: Re: parsnips ?????????????
Post by: lottie lou on March 24, 2011, 10:11:08: Better than mine. Mine were like forked lightning. Anyway they all look the same mashed on the plate.