How to Grow Parsnips

Seibert is nicely raked very fine and we'll make it a shallow drill here I prefer this draw onion hoe short turkey movements like that and the middle tube will tidy them up a little bit by hand that's perfect so that's about two centimeters deep it's probably deeper than what you'd instinctively do isn't it yeah but the reason really is that soil falls back again I've seen many people making a little indentation like that and so in their mouth lips that's not really deep enough Tim I died ahead there's a couple of ways of soil you can take the packet and tap it like that and one comes out at a time now parsnips are lightest lightest paper so on a windy day dig you had to blow away very much so as they come out you move your packet along like that I really think you should practice it before you go onto onto a drill because they could all fall out well what time of year we're going to sell them the best time is in early May if you saw them in the first week of me you get a fantastic quick termination they all germinate within two weeks and now what I do is I saw them every seven centimeters and they've terminated will thin them out will take every second past my bite and you always need to buy fresh seeds every every year yeah the only last for one year okay so this reason you can't whatever is left over now give them away to your friends or throw them out so you go through diagonally it's a long scoop across and it brings some lumps out so the idea is that we don't drop a lump of clay on top on top of the little seedling to get it wouldn't terminate so once you've got done that you can tap it in a little bit to see you - nice contact with the soil you're gonna thin those parsnips down a little bit aren't you I am yeah yeah and it's so important that you do it early on like at this stage or even spend it slightly smaller give them adequate space so that they don't compete with each other okay the weeds compete with your vegetables per term they also compete with each other okay and I ruffle the soil around it always because it's very good for the silent and nutrient you know microbial activity is increased and they release nutrients so that beautiful one has been well let's come up yeah and it's one morning there's nothing really dogs don't replant them no yeah so these are in their final spacings now yeah yeah if I bite into my 10 centimetres yeah if I wanted bigger ones I could even take one from the middle out yeah but then they're two enormous really ten centimetres gives you nice not massive okay smallish sized yeah okay long parsnips we don't need to feed the miranne they don't feed it to dogs you don't want to encourage the Leafs you want to route to go down to find its own food yeah okay now it's pretty cold out here this morning we can even see frost on the ground here which is a perfect time to be pulling up your parsnips because a little bit of frost will actually add a little bit of sweetness to their flavor so we haven't touched the bed now until class since glass helped us plant them so we're just going to have a look and see what we have okay lovely look we got some nice stuff there there perfect absolutely perfect for a winter's do or for a soup and really really easy we literally didn't come back to these all year absolutely perfect pushes a parser you

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Length: 3min 56sec (236 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 07 2013