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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: mark_h on October 18, 2005, 15:09:04

Title: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: mark_h on October 18, 2005, 15:09:04
They may not be the biggest in the world but I was surprised by the size of these parsnips I uprooted today.

Mark
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Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: Melbourne12 on October 18, 2005, 15:37:39
Those look excellent - a good shape as well as size.

Actually, you look as though you're about to say, "How about these - caught on 12lb line with peeler crab bait."  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: Derekthefox on October 18, 2005, 15:48:20
Well done Mark, and the first veg always taste the sweetest ...

Derekthefox :D
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 18, 2005, 18:21:26
Nice coupla handfuls you have there!  They look perfect to me, and are a winter veg I would hate to be without!
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: busy_lizzie on October 18, 2005, 18:29:31
Excellent Mark!  Look like two beauties. Always feel lucky when I dig mine up and find they haven't forked, which a lot seem to have done this year.  They look perfect!  :) busy_lizzie 
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: undercarriage plan on October 18, 2005, 18:33:44
Lovely! Mine are OK,  but seem really, really long!! Ah well, still taste sweet and crunchy....parsnips I mean.. ::) Enjoy! Lottie  ;D
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: mark_h on October 18, 2005, 20:44:50
Just for the record, the biggest one weighed 1lb 7 and 3/4 ounces- a little less than I guesstimated.       If foliage is anything to go by with these ones, I've got an even bigger one still in the ground- I shall find out when the time comes to lift it.

Melbourne- that was the idea of the pose- to look like something I fished up!! ;D

Thanks for all the comments, I've decided that this variety deserves the name 'pornstar'!!!(joking!)

Mark
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: Lady Cosmos on October 19, 2005, 10:24:19
Great ones, Mark.  Can taste them already.  ;D  Mine are still in the ground...
How did you get them that size??? lots of manure, I gues????
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: spacehopper on October 19, 2005, 12:31:36
Nice parsnips, I'll grow some this year if I can get them to germinate.
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: supersprout on October 19, 2005, 21:29:32
Cor, you don't get many of them to the pound! What variety were they? ::)
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: flowerofshona on October 20, 2005, 05:12:34
Nice looking Parsnips !!!
Can taste them now on Sunday with a nice roast (drool !! )
Title: Re: Two of my parsnips I picked today
Post by: mark_h on October 30, 2005, 19:43:46
The variety was Lisbonnais and no i didnt use lots of manure.    The council are nice enough to give us big piles of pro-grow- which is the recycled garden stuff from the skips.    i dug lots of that is- beginners luck i suppose!

Mark
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