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The title of this should be 'Madderbat Does it Again'!
Back in March I carefully planted a whole load of parsnip seeds into toilet roll holders and was thrilled when they germinated - looking forward to Parsnip Wine this Autumn.
Because it was my first go at parsnips, and the seeds looked a bit like carrot seeds, I didn't think anything more of it. Until now.
Down on the lottie, furtling round, noticed the parsnip top growth looked a bit orange and investigated. From the whole packet I appear to have had three rows of carrots and 8 parsnip plants!
I'm not going to ask what I did wrong (apart from not identifying the initial foliage) but wonder - Has this happened to anyone else (or is it just me)???
Back in March I carefully planted a whole load of parsnip seeds into toilet roll holders and was thrilled when they germinated - looking forward to Parsnip Wine this Autumn.
Because it was my first go at parsnips, and the seeds looked a bit like carrot seeds, I didn't think anything more of it. Until now.
Down on the lottie, furtling round, noticed the parsnip top growth looked a bit orange and investigated. From the whole packet I appear to have had three rows of carrots and 8 parsnip plants!
I'm not going to ask what I did wrong (apart from not identifying the initial foliage) but wonder - Has this happened to anyone else (or is it just me)???
) there was, according to the seed company a slight mix up and instead of PSB I had some form of green manure which had been 'mis-packaged'. They did send a replacement pack of PSB (correct seed) so I just got a late crop and some interesting purple flowered Californian thingy for Mum to paint.
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