Parsnips: A love affair
Well it’s a funny old year when your best crop is parsnips. For me, this is a first.
Parsnips are always OK – you know, forgettably acceptable. I have germination issues most years, but that’s about the limit of the grief parsnips give. They grow, to a pretty standard size, and I eat them with barely a moment’s thought or gratitude.
All that’s changed in 2010, as the rest of my vegetable plot dies around me. Gone is my blithe indifference, replaced by quivering gratitude for the parsnips’ ploddy, undemanding, stolid performance.
They are the new love of my gardening life.
Posted on 13th July 2010
Under: Roots, Summer | 9 Comments »