Swede Tips

[den]

Hi all
In my Lodge RAOB (Buffaloes) we have a fun gardening competition every year and as I won last year (longest parsnip inc all root) I got to chose this years effort so I went for Heaviest Swede . Any tips on what seed we should get (we all use same seeds)
Also any tips on making them big and heavy.
Its all for fun but we all want to win
Den Whittenbury

[den]

[saddad]

I'd use "best of all" start them off under fleece so the dreaded Swede Midge doesn't blind them. As it is technically a swollen stem, not a root, and a brassica I'd use a high nitrogen feed like Urea and keep it damp untill you had a lot of really big leaves and then slow up on the feed but make sure you have plenty of water...
"Royal and Ancient Order of the Buffalo" if I remember rightly!
;D

[Biscombe]

Saddad PM'd you swede midge is my nightmare!!

[den]

Thank you, I shall look them up
your close its "Antedeluvian"

[cleo]

Please keep the tips coming-when I lived up in Leeds I grew great swedes on my clayish allotments but here on light soil they are all neck.

[saddad]

of course... before the flood!
::)