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    I am in the middle of a City and Guilds in Gardening, and the advice for parsnips is as follows:

    Conditions:

    pH 6.5
    Soil should be sandy or silty
    Get soil to a fine tilth
    Remove all stones
    Do not add Organic or Manure prior to sowing.

    Sow mid to late spring
    Sow seeds 2cm deep
    Sow seeds 10cm apart, or thin to 10cm apart
    Rows should be 30cm apart
    Harvest from late summer through to winter
    You can pull them and store them in a clamp or in damp sand.

    We have so many threads on parsnips; and so much alternative advice and suggestions; I just thought I'd share the 'official' RHS advice on the topic.

    I do the former, but scatter into a bed rather than rows; and my clay soil still produces fabulous parsnips; the difficulty is getting them out when the clay is wet.

    Lets get a good thread running on how to grow the perfect parsnip - so that as we are munching on them over the festive period we can all plan our parsnip attack for 2010.

    Anyone else?

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