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~ PARSNIP Seed ~

plant picture'Tender & True' Parsnip

A very well known traditional parsnip variety making large, strongly-flavoured conical white roots (much as you would expect from a parsnip, really!).

Our friend Tony Haigh is very fond of them, and tends to put them in everything, from curry to quiche! While this is a fantastic parsnip, we are not completely convinced about this, and think they are best roasted in the normal manner.

First roots ready from late August onwards, but we usually keep them in the ground until later in the year.

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'Halflange Fakir' Root Parsley

Root Parsley, as you might guess, simply a variety of parsley that has been selected for its edible roots, much as Beetroot and Chard are the same plant.

Now we were sceptical too, but actually, it tastes very nice!

You just boil it up like a carrot. The roots are easy to clean, and have a really pleasant flavour.

The closest thing to describe it is parsnip root, but its sort of half way between a parsnip & a carrot. It's slightly sweet, but not as sweet as parsnips can be. And the flavour is obviously related to parsley, but a bit different.

we will definitely be growing a big bed of this to eat next year.

 

Seed grown for us by Phillipe Levesque.

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Saving Parsnip Seed is easy:

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Parsnips make tall flower-heads of little yellow flowers in their second year, soon followed by huge numbers of papery seeds.

Leave a good number of only the very best and biggest roots in the ground overwinter for your seed crop,
otherwise you'll be keeping seed that tends to make small parsnips.

And pull up any that start to flower long before the others, you don't want to develop a strain that has a tendency to bolt!

You can only let one variety go to seed each year, as they cross easily. Other than that, parsnip is very easy to save seed from,
and you'll get much better seed than you can buy - it doesn't keep or store well at all.

Radish and turnip also produce seed in their second year, so the process is similar.

Seed-saving instructions are included with your seeds, so you can do this yourself.
And of course, seed-saving is only possible because these are all real, non-hybrid varieties.

 




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Gardeners Should Save their Own Seed:

Because none of these seeds are hybrids, you can save your own seed for future use: there's no need to buy new each year.
Saving your own is easy. You will get great seed, and great vegetables adapted to your local conditions.
Do have a go - read the seedsaving instructions we provide with every packet, and also on this site.

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