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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: fitzsie on August 28, 2014, 21:31:11
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I posted earlier a photo of my little plot of veg garden. My first attempt at seriously growing veggies,
Well, I'm still eating my tomatoes and today I pulled out my first parsnip !! Yeah, a beauty !!! I can't complain at that !!!
Tasted really creamy in this evenings stew. Definitely going to make some soup !! That's if the rest of the parsnips are performing as well.
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m9/fitzsie/Parsnip_zpsdae75ef1.jpg) (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/fitzsie/media/Parsnip_zpsdae75ef1.jpg.html)
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Well done, it looks a beauty :icon_cheers:
The taste only gets better as they mature, particularly once it gets cold enough for frosts.
What variety did you grow?
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Glad to hear of your success :blob7: and your handsome parsnip. Eating from ones own garden has to be one of the best joys in life.
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What variety did you grow?
Just checked the packet and they are Tender and True.
I know I should wait for some frost but had to pick another last week for Sundays roast dinner. It went with freshly picked runner beans, my potatoes and my marrow.
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Tender and True, a nice variety and do well when I've grown them. Although I tend to grow Gladiator F1 (or F2 from saved seeds), as they do so well here and are great at resisting carrot root fly which is a big nuisance in my garden.
Sounds delish :happy7:
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It is a great sensation to be able to harvest your own food and eat it.
I had never tried parsnip until about 9 or 10 years ago. It was hard to get germination initially then after the first bed I left some to go to seed so now I get a self sown crop every year. Sometimes the weeds are too many parsnips but they are fairly easy to remove or just let them get a little established then harvest them as babies just leaving enough to go on to maturity and full grown.
Fresh seed is required for perfect germination.
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I leave some parsnips to flower every year because the insects love them. The seeds then scatter around and I reckon at that stage I get 100% germination. There are currently thousands of them coming up all over the place.
I tend to thin out some of the ones I sowed in Feb/mar and find they taste good. A bit of a fry in some butter seems to sweeten them up/
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Didn't get any parsnips this year but was given another half plot with some gone to seed and saved some. I was going to put some in wet tissue to check viability but where I had left the stalks by the compost bins they are coming up like mad!! I even harvested some for myself and may try transplanting some of the compost bin ones as an experiment. I think they are Tender and True variety.
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I have heavy clay soil and have grown gladiator for the past few years. They grew massively long and I had such trouble trying to prise them out. I tried guernsey this year, half as long, omg they have grown three times as wide and are bolting so out they come. This time I had to use a crowbar and the parsnips are like wood. So no more home grown parsnips for me, I am getting too old to be prising them out. I ended up with backache and value for effort, they are so not worth it for me. My plot isn`t that big so whatever I grow has to be worth while and parsnips are joining my blacklist