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    Making a V-shaped trench and filling it with compost when planting 'snip seed produces decent sized roots!
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    When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

  • #2
    Well done you, they're fabulous!
    Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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    • #3
      Lummy! That's awesome!! Well done ct!!

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      • #4
        If i liked parsnips that would look awesome! Think they are about the only thing I don't like come to think of it.

        Excellent specimen though, well done!

        Steve

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        • #5
          Great looking specimens!

          paul.
          Help Wildlife.
          Take only photos-leave only footprints-Kill only time.

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          • #6
            By heck thats big!
            WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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            • #7
              I put the magazine next to it so you'd have some idea of scale! I was expecting it to be very woody, but having cut the cankery bit off and peeled it, it cooked up beautifully and made a lovely heap of parsnip mash. Didn't have to add butter or nutmeg or anything, the flavour was brill. So chuffed!
              When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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              • #8
                Glad it tasted as nice as it looked.
                Location....East Midlands.

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                • #9
                  I just direct sow mine into a bed and every year they come up like yours, far too big for my liking. They have done so from the first year I got my plot, so from my experience it boils down to luck of having the right soil. As they get no attention from me, other than a watering when sown.

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                  • #10
                    Brill. We did one trench then got fed up and made planting holes with a pole , works just as well . and you're not filling a whole trnch with the compost.
                    S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                    a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                    You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                    • #11
                      I wouldn't normally have left these ones in so long. I couldn't get them out of the ground at Christmas - had to BUY SOME for Christmas dinner!
                      When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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                      • #12
                        I had big 'uns like that before Christmas. ( Don't mean to sound like I'm boasting ) I was worried that they'd taste woody but they were fine......
                        S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                        a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                        You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                        • #13
                          Wow, that's awesome. I'm jealous!
                          Real Men Sow - a cheery allotment blog.

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                          • #14
                            There are always some who want to rain on your parade....
                            I think your parsnip is FANTASTIC! In the thumbnail I thought that was a seed packet, not a magazine!! I hope mine grow as well as yours, I will definately follow your advice.
                            Www.chicorychildrenandchickens.wordpress.com

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                            • #15
                              My challenge for this year is parsnips that look like parsnips so I was going to try the trench/planting holes method. I was going to use leafmould mixed with sand as have plenty of those

                              How far apart did you sow them in the trench?

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