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    DreadedParsnip thread...

    OK,I grew them last year, so no questions about germination etc.
    My question is...when do I sow them so they stay fairly small, since the variety I grew last year just didn't stop growing.
    I dug up what was left of them last week, and I'm not kidding when I say one of them [not the biggest either] was two foot long and ten inches across.
    They were mostly pretty unusable except for shaving off the outside and using for soup, which I did.
    Does closer spacing work or is there a length of growing time I would be better off doing?
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    According to my veg expert book you can harvest them in the autumn and store them in a box of sand like carrots.

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    • #3
      Try growing a smaller variety!!!!

      flipping heck....those were huge!!
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      • #4
        what a wonderfully eclectic mix us gardeners make

        - my parsnips won't germinate
        - my parsnips are too small
        - my parsnips are too big

        aka
        Suzie

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        • #5
          Try either:

          Growing in a block rather than a row as they do slow themselves down when they push against each other.
          Sowing later and do a few rows successionally.....so a row in April, one in May and one in June.

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          • #6
            Too big.................... *groan...............
            Hayley B

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            • #7
              I grew mine in potato planters last year. The all stayed a respectible size. As long as you have room for the planters that is..

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              • #8
                Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                Try either:

                Growing in a block rather than a row as they do slow themselves down when they push against each other.
                Sowing later and do a few rows successionally.....so a row in April, one in May and one in June.
                What she said. The ones I grew with plenty of space were massive. The ones sown later and closer produced lots of lovely small roots.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Patchninja View Post
                  According to my veg expert book you can harvest them in the autumn and store them in a box of sand like carrots.
                  Let me know if you want some seed...always have to send some for MIL who loves them. Impossible to find in France.

                  I found they went soggy and re-sprouted in boxes of sand...probably did something wrong...At least I didn't have to head out and pick axe a monstrous woody, fly riddled witchy thing in Jan though.

                  Re original question. We've sowed in July one year ...got excellent small Parsnips with no fly. (infact because first 3 attempts failed but don't tell anyone...it was all intended)

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                  • #10
                    Oh God If My Parsnips Do Not Work This Year Emprison Me Now......................
                    Hayley B

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                    • #11
                      Thank you all for responses, including the wailing wall ones
                      Right then,later sowing and closer spacing it is

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                      • #12
                        Can't understand why your parsnips were unusable. No matter how big parsnips get they don't go tough and woody till well into spring (probably may time). You just use a big knife and cut them into fingers the size that you want. Just wish mine had grown to that size.

                        Ian

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                        • #13
                          they were very woody, the core was huge,there was about an inch to half inch of useable stuff on there.The soup was nice though, it did make 4 pints
                          I decided to give the rest to the local animal sanctuary for the bloes pigs,I expect they enjoyed them too, or at least I hope they did

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                          • #14
                            Parsnip wine?....doesn't taste at all like parsnips I promise....only a suggestion tho!

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                            • #15
                              Parsnip cake's rather yummy and like wine does not taste of parsnips either.
                              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
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