Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: peapod on November 21, 2010, 16:38
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and taste GORGEOUS!!
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Oh my! It is enormous! Well done for growing that monster of a parsnip. Enjoy dinner!
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What? The parsnip or the bloke? ;)
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Both ;) :D
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;) :D Enormous parsnip, well done! :) Tall looking bloke too! :)
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Well done poddy - a perfect snipe :)
(I'm a bit worried by the spoon shoved through your man's head though :ohmy:)
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That's a parsnip and a half! :D Fab!
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thats one excellent produce. congrats peapod.
never liked parsnips! OH loves them roasted though. probably I have to make some arrangements for next year.. :unsure:
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thats one excellent produce. congrats peapod.
never liked parsnips! OH loves them roasted though. probably I have to make some arrangements for next year.. :unsure:
I never liked them either, but OH loves them so wanted us o grow them. They are a revelation
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While we're in showing off mode this is the yield from one Morrison's flower bucket. Two and a half pounds of snips after topping and tailing. I've given up trying to grow them in my boulder clay plot but they do really well in containers.
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Hi Solway - what variety were those? I want to grow some in containers next year...
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any one made parsnip wine from them?
i fancy trying next year.
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what a whopper - we had our first parnips this weekend yummy best tasting I've ever grown :D
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Hi Solway - what variety were those? I want to grow some in containers next year...
Those are Palace F1 but I've grown 'tender and true' and 'hollow crown' with similar results. I put 20 seeds per bucket and start them off the unheated greenhouse. If they all germinate I thin to 8 or 12 plants which gives about the same yield in weight but you obviously get bigger roots with less per bucket.
I'd recommend this method for anyone who has a heavy or stony soil as you can tailor the compost to suit the parsnips requirements.
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Wow - i am amazed you can get those out of a flower bucket - I have to do this now - consider me inspired!
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Peapod - that is some parsnip - enough to feed a small army.
Solway - I am deffo going to try your way of growing parsnips next year. Have tried and failed so many times to grow them in my garden. Strange that I have grown carrots in pots and never thought of parsnips. :)
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sorry to hijack this thread. can somebody pls explain what is morrisons flower bucket? where do we get it (morrisons ofcourse :D... but what section)
can you please enlighten us :) on how to grow on those?
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sorry to hijack this thread. can somebody pls explain what is morrisons flower bucket? where do we get it (morrisons ofcourse :D... but what section)
can you please enlighten us :) on how to grow on those?
Hi prakash_mib They are the large buckets that many supermarkets use to hold their bouquets/bunches of flowers. Many of the supermarkets will either give them away or sell them for a nominal sum. You could also try a local florist. You will need to drill holes at the bottom of the pots to let excess water drain out.
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any one made parsnip wine from them?
i fancy trying next year.
Yes, a good few years ago. It was delicious ...... like a medium sherry but if I remember correctly it had to mature for 12months :(
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any one made parsnip wine from them?
i fancy trying next year.
Yes, a good few years ago. It was delicious ...... like a medium sherry but if I remember correctly it had to mature for 12months :(
I think I'D be roasted if I wasted his precious Sunday dinner snips on wine :D
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Wow - i am amazed you can get those out of a flower bucket - I have to do this now - consider me inspired!
Me too. Do you use GP compost? and when do you start off the seeds? do you fill the bucket right to the top with compost? Parsnips are my favourite veg, but I've never grown them cos there's just no hope with my solid clay/stoney soil. I have to try this.
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we need to know!!
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didn't he do well
I'm to embarrassed to show my parsnips :unsure:
but i must take up the challenge next year as it putting my abysmal crop to shame :ohmy:
Morrison's buckets and all definitely the signs of good gardeners :D
i guess container growing is the up and coming thing ::)
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any one made parsnip wine from them?
i fancy trying next year.
Yes, a good few years ago. It was delicious ...... like a medium sherry but if I remember correctly it had to mature for 12months :(
I make 5 gallon of parsnip wine every year, its on of my favourites, it does make an excellent sherry type wine.