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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: bunnycat on May 22, 2005, 21:12:15

Title: Parsnips In Compost Sacks
Post by: bunnycat on May 22, 2005, 21:12:15
Just wondering if it would be possible to grow parsnips in compost sacks.... ???

I'm doing potatoes in compost sacks, this year and if it's successful I thought I might try parsnips next year as well.
I'm quite limited in what I can grow, as my husband doesn't eat many veggies and there's no point in me growing things that we can't both eat. I'm also very short on space, so anything I grow has to be in tubs or sacks :(

Any advice would be appreciated  :)
Title: Re: Parsnips In Compost Sacks
Post by: derbex on May 23, 2005, 09:05:16
Don't see why not -don't the exhibition types grow them in drainpipes? I suppose the main problem would be what's in the sack, I know that you don't grow parsnips on freshly manured ground as they fork maybe sacks of topsoil? Or old soil in old sacks?

Jeremy
Title: Re: Parsnips In Compost Sacks
Post by: bunnycat on May 23, 2005, 19:40:24
Thanks for the advice Jeremy ;D

Might give them a go next year, then. It's got to be worth a try.