Posted: Thu Aug 27, 26 12:04 pm Post subject: Sad parsnip results in no dig bed
Decided to pull one this morning as neck looked great , little bit of canker on the neck so have since read that better to keep necks covered any how utter disappointment when I pulled The usual for me, alien looking object…. I will park out some useable food but oh I’m fed up! I don’t have stony ground. Reading around this morning it sounds as if it might be a case of too rich a soil?
The vegetable garden stood abandoned for a few years whilst life was and we reclaimed it last autumn, the raised beds had been covered with corrugated plastic floor protection stuff we had left over from work here. Once removed I topped up the beds with organic compost and left for a few weeks before planting the parsnip plants I got from Rocket Gardens ( used to grow all from seed but again, that thing called life and am just happy at the moment the plot is back in use )
Am so fed up, it’s not been of course the easiest growing season,I’m in West Dorset and it’s been hot and dry Cucumbers did well, runner beans eventually got there and tomatoes in a poly tunnel were good,and I’m pleased with butternut squash and some other squash variety that I’ve forgotten the name Swedes are okay ish
Any thoughts what to change next year? I love parsnips but have never grown nice ones
Ah says the retired allotment holder thinking back to the growing of parsnips. I found that the RHS was right - deep, loose, free draining, sunny. And in need of regular watering in dry periods. Trouble is that then the long ones are not so easy to dig out.
With a smaller growing area and less energy these days, I don't bother growing parsnips any more, because they were always disappointing (small/forked/hard to germinate the seed).
, little bit of canker on the neck so have since read that better to keep necks covered 
any how utter disappointment when I pulled 
The usual for me, alien looking object…. I will park out some useable food but oh I’m fed up! I don’t have stony ground. Reading around this morning it sounds as if it might be a case of too rich a soil?
and we reclaimed it last autumn, the raised beds had been covered with corrugated plastic floor protection stuff we had left over from work here. Once removed I topped up the beds with organic compost and left for a few weeks before planting the parsnip plants I got from Rocket Gardens ( used to grow all from seed but again, that thing called life 
Swedes are okay ish
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