Parsnip obsession!!

[Archie]

Or Lathams at Potter

We'd best get Roy's onto it then.

[Archie]

Have cooked these parsnips, Chad....see the need to uplift with spices or carrots although the puree parsnip is a different sort of flavour, so have frozen them for adding to casseroles later. Will try the parsnip/apple recipe another day, enough excitement for now.

[chadspad]

Not being the type of person who likes to gloat (yeh right ), I wanted to show u my first digging of my parsnip patch. These little lot are the result of about an 1/8th of the plot.





I do have to admit tho that by not thinning them out I have lost a serious amount of big parsnips. Some are so small I really cant be bothered to process them so will miss out completely. Have definitely learnt my lesson for next year!

[Archie]

Nice and clean, Chad, no canker.

[Millymollymandy]

You wouldn't want that many to be giant ones, or you'd need to buy a new freezer! .

Well done anyway!

[Archie]

Whats that thing in the foreground, Chad, bottom picture on the left.
Looks like a tape measure

[chadspad]

Its garden twine stuff Archie lol.

M3 having trouble as it is! All that peeling is really boring and has given me a blister!

[Archie]

I just brush 'em sideways, get most of the muck out, then usually put them in a slowcooker or cut up smaller in a steamer.
One long row will last a winter against several rows if they were taters.
A free thing hereabouts, probably your neck of woods too is Sugar Beet.
Huge lumps fall off trailers regularly, nearly put lorries.
You on rocky land and soil looks light.?

[chadspad]

No our soil is awful, this is a bed full of cheap bags of peat. Its the only way I can get anything to grow in the ground!

[Archie]

Vine land....a Parsnip Bordeaux, could catch on....Ah 2007 that was a good year.