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Hi,

Great photos pa snip! I'm feeling inspired to get down the lotty!

Pawty

Hi Pawty.

There's a 120 x 120 picture for you on the Merry Christmas thread

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13746&p=135561#p135561

A very imaginative thread Captian, or are you now Magor ? Either way you keep a tidy ship. Or, as they say or used to say, "Shipshape and Bristol fashion".

Presumably you didn't take Christmas leave ?

Richard
I have taken far too much leave over the last few months hence the fact I have a battalion of cling on weed to deal with.
I will steer the ship and Mrs S will deal with the bristols fashion


As stated earlier, on boxing day (26th Dec) I sowed the 'Exhibition' onion seed and noticed two days ago on the 5th Jan that they were germinating

Just peeking through in places. Taken 5-1-17



Pa Snip Log seven one twenty seventeen

Visit to plot for sole purpose of digging up and removing what I thought would be just a few remaining parsnips

D T Brown Pinnacle were sown direct 14 -4 -16 and this picture was taken 2-6-16



Taken completely by surprise when I got past 6 and they just kept coming.

35lbs of Parsnip later.


We have already eaten just over 15lb from this bed and they have been really tasty.


Without doubt the best shaped and sized parsnips we have ever grown.
Damn nuisance that its not in D T Brown catalogue this year. Believe it to be under Mr Fothergill brand this year.

Temperature around 13:00 today was :-

Getting far too slippery where I was walking back and forth, dangerously so.
Plot visit ended

I must find things to do with parsnips, I rarely eat them because she won't, though that's not a good excuse.

Last time I used parsnips artistically it was a terrine with carrots and something else. I did do Parmesan baked parsnip for dinner at Christmas. They would have been nice if I had cooked them correctly.

Love your posts and pics.....

Diane

Very pleased that you do. Thanks for saying so.

Did any of you use the free seeds of dumpy carrots?

Log Date:- Eight One Twenty Seventeen

Weather conditions prevented Pa Snip Enterprise take off today.
What a boring day it was.

Hi Richard - I didn't get the dumpy carrots although I have grown them before but found them not that useful, but did look cute in the beef stew, but useless for salads.

I made some Parsnip & ginger soup I found on the net somewhere. Was nice actually, the ginger took away the sweetness & left a bit of warmth. Will grate more ginger in it next time I make it but only have about 10 parsnips left & I don't think some of the ones on the end of the bed are going to be very big!

Keeps an eye on my parsnip pictures in case westi takes a fancy to a few for her gingery soup

Pa you'll be so distracted by your missing compost to worry about your parsnips!

Westi wrote:Hi Richard - I didn't get the dumpy carrots although I have grown them before but found them not that useful, but did look cute in the beef stew, but useless for salads!

They are ok chopped up though I can't quite see the point in growing them, taste was ok. Maybe good for shallow stony soil. They do pull out easy.

The Nantes I grew in another row are so long compared to the ones I grew in previous years that I need to fork them out.

Log date:- nine one twenty seventeen

Picked up odd messages involving carrots.
Crew to remain alert to repel possible boarders of carrot fly.

Despite cold damp weather the white fly invasion has still not been fully repelled.
Was amazed at numbers disturbed on sprouts.

Routine Pa Snip Enterprise Log returns as soon as weather permits a return to the plot