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Icyberjunkie · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: Parsnips

Gladiator Second year of growing. Good germination (if you don't sow them to early Embarassed

), long, straight, sweet roots. These are so good I haven't tried any others.

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wardy · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:42 pm Post subject:

I agree Icy (for once) they are the real deal. They won't let you down Very Happy

Icyberjunkie · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject:

could you just clarify that one more time..........I think my eyes are deceiving me Shocked

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"Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop,multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times" Mark 4, v8

wardy · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject:

Yep! Yer Gladiator parsnip will never let you down Very Happy

Oh fu***k it.. I so hate being a Yes woman Very Happy

johcharly · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject:

Only ever grown Avonresister meself, but they have never let me down.

moonbells · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:36 am Post subject:

First year I grew Tender and True, as they are much more tender and less 'corey' than Gladiator, but this year the germination of all roots was pants. I got four or five surviving out of 24 sown. (Ok more germinated but they got eaten almost immediately)

I ended up doing a late sowing in June of Avonresister, which is a short rooted, fast-growing variety, and it shot up and I've loads of them growing.

So for next year I've a packet of each Smile

moonbells

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wardy · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:14 am Post subject:

I did T & T Moonbells and I've been harvesting them for a while. Er they are a bit madly shaped though, perhaps due to my no dig approach Laughing

Got a square one out the other day. Lovely snip though Very Happy

Icyberjunkie · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:49 am Post subject:

wardy wrote:

Yep! Yer Gladiator parsnip will never let you down Very Happy

Oh fu***k it.. I so hate being a Yes woman Very Happy

Well you could always try being a 'please' woman for a change...... Twisted Evil

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wardy · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject:

Gerroff

baggy · Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 1304 Location: Kent

Devil's food

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French Chique · Guest

Quick a bucket for Bags ......................... Shocked

Too late

T and T for me ... but I thought you only picked them after the 1st frosts Confused

wardy · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:06 pm Post subject:

I ate some of me T and T Dom the other Sunday and they were fab and sweet Very Happy

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3325 Location: Herts

wardy wrote:

I did T & T Moonbells and I've been harvesting them for a while. Er they are a bit madly shaped though, perhaps due to my no dig approach Laughing

Got a square one out the other day. Lovely snip though Very Happy

think mine are in this category ... multi roots ... multi lumps & bumps ... total corkscrews Sad

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wardy · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject:

Mine were quite big and fat rather than long so I cut all the annoying bits off the bottom Very Happy

Lottie · Guest

Ooooooooooooooh snap!! Very Happy

I do that too!! Laughing

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3325 Location: Herts

Souuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!! Laughing

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I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!