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General Items
Crop Rotations
Crop Succession
Vegetable List
Aubergines
Broad Beans
Carrots
Chilli Peppers
Courgettes
Cucmbers
Garlic
Grean Beans
Melons
Onions
Parsnips
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Spinach
Swede
Sweet Peppers
Sweetcorn
Tomatoes
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Parsnips at a Glance
Sow -
April to May
Depth -
2 cm
Distance Apart -
Sow thinly in a row, then thin after establishment to 10cm spacing.
Harvest -
Nov onwards
Parsnip - Chirivia
Not an easy crop to grow but is one of the few vegetables with real taste, either to have with your Christmas roast or to add flavour to a vegetable casserole.
Parsnips are difficult to grow because they are slow to germinate - I find that they take around 3 weeks. That in itself needn't be too much of a problem but it is a long time to keep the soil moist. They may need watering two or three times per day.
Once established, they are not much of a problem and can stay in the ground through the winter until required.
Parsnips supposedly have a better flavour after they have had a frost on them, but that may be difficult to achieve!
Parsnips
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