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Too late for parsnips?

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Kleftiwallah

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Too late for parsnips?
« on: June 25, 2011, 09:59 »

I won't be starting off parsnips in kitchen roll tubes again, I'm not happy about carrots in toilt roll tubes either.  :tongue2:   Is it too late for direct sowing of parnips ?     Cheers,   Tony.
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2011, 10:31 »
Absolutely.  They should be planted Feb -April. We are nearly in July.
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2011, 14:57 »
Well Alan Titchmarsh says up to the end of May and that was a 'few days' ago !

So nyaaa nyaaaa nyaaaa.   :D     Their going in.   8)  Cheers,   Tony.
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2011, 14:59 »
What, just what was the point in asking then??
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2011, 16:12 »
well Klefti's not going to get a parsnip as big as, say, DD has... (cue pic?)
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2011, 16:30 »

Just so I could go nyaaa nyaaa nyaaaa !  :)  Why else?  :D    Cheers,   Tony.
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2011, 16:39 »
Quote from: savbo on June 25, 2011, 16:12
well Klefti's not going to get a parsnip as big as, say, DD has... (cue pic?)

I think they've seen my big one plenty of times before!
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2011, 16:46 »
Quote from: Kleftiwallah on June 25, 2011, 16:30

Just so I could go nyaaa nyaaa nyaaaa !  :)  Why else?  :D    Cheers,   Tony.
Don't you think that's pointless and rude?  Cheers, Ice.
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2011, 17:12 »
This thread is very strange, and maybe actually rude  ???

and I don't mean the reference to DD'd big ones either because we are OK with those  :lol:
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2011, 20:15 »
Quote from: Kleftiwallah on June 25, 2011, 16:30

Just so I could go nyaaa nyaaa nyaaaa !  :)  Why else?  :D    Cheers,   Tony.

Kelftiwallah,  If you're going to be rude to people Aunty will ban you  >:(

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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2011, 20:57 »
I really wonder why we try to help people when that's the reaction we get, kleftiwallah.

This forum thrives on goodwill but if you start treating people like that then you're going to make yourself unpopular really quickly.  And if you actually need some advice then your strategy might just backfire.
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2011, 21:11 »
Wow - upsetting 5 mods at the same time - that must win you some sort of award Kleftiwallah!

If you plant now I suspect you will get something but as has already been suggested the snips will not be big. If you have the seed already be warned - they do not keep well so if you have a bit of spare space then you might as well plant them and get some small ones for Christmas. Better than wasting the seeds by not planting them.
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Re: Too late for parsnips?
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2011, 22:04 »
Quote from: bigben on June 26, 2011, 21:11
If you plant now I suspect you will get something but as has already been suggested the snips will not be big. ... you might as well plant them and get some small ones for Christmas. Better than wasting the seeds by not planting them.

We're on our third sowing, hoping we might get something rather than the almost nothing we've got so far this year.
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