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They may not be the biggest in the world but I was surprised by the size of these parsnips I uprooted today.

Mark

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

Well done Mark, and the first veg always taste the sweetest ...

Derekthefox :D

Nice coupla handfuls you have there!  They look perfect to me, and are a winter veg I would hate to be without!

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 

Lovely! Mine are OK,  but seem really, really long!! Ah well, still taste sweet and crunchy....parsnips I mean.. ::) Enjoy! Lottie  ;D

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

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????

Nice parsnips, I'll grow some this year if I can get them to germinate.

Cor, you don't get many of them to the pound! What variety were they? ::)

Nice looking Parsnips !!!
Can taste them now on Sunday with a nice roast (drool !! )

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