[Sadgit]

double dig and rotavate annie,or like munty says grow on ridges.

can I double dig using a rotovator? as I really never have time to double dig the plot.. At the mo I am covering 80% of the plot in manure then going to rotovator it in 2 or 3 times at different depths.. ok or not?

 go for it raise the tiller bar right up .chew the soil deep ,then manure n then redig deep then go shallower to bury the rest

" werks for me "

Thanks honey.. xxx

[shaun]

,when did the rain start?As I said these were slow to germinate..

annie the rain started the week leading upto the 16th june

[gobs]

Here it started beginning of June.

[shaun]

unbelievable  :roll:  

[gobs]

You are just being mean now, get off...  

[Annie]

I  thought it started before that as my daughters b`bay was on the 6th and I almost asked people to put their kids in wellies for the party.I know when it rained non stop as we were camping,it was my birthday,I thew a strop, we went home and hours later we watched the news and realised that had we waited we couldn`t have got home and our local town flooded(for the first time)

[Patrick]

Don't know when the rain started but I've had some parsnips just like yours Annie.
Right next to long tapered beauties (parsnips I mean).
Don't they smell lovely? Taste nice too.
I think it's down to stones myself.
Obviously read too many 'grow veg books'.
As a novice I don't really know.
Only sure thing is I'll be growing them again next year.
mmmmmm

[yummy]

Good theory WG., but what about like mine, all planted same time, all watered the same, no stones, no fresh manure, but some are long and straight and some are forked and all in the same row.  And I thinned them, unlike the carrots!!!!!

Same here. Some forked and some dead straight.