After yesterday’s successful potato harvest, we tried digging up some parsnips today. Unlike the potatoes, they were grown in the ground rather than bags, and my worry wasn’t so much the cold and snow – more all the water that has sunk into the ground since it’s thawed out.

The plot is soggy right now, to say the least, and the fork slipped into the ground much easier than I’d been expecting. The last time it was like this, our carrots turned out very poorly indeed, and I’ve always considered parsnips to be similar.

Turns out, though, that they were fine. I dug up four, or very different shapes and sizes, but at least one of them would be good enough to put in a supermarket. Granted you might want to trim off the very long root.

This is the first time we’ve tried out hand at growing parsnips. It feels like an age ago when we planted them – back in the spring of 2009 – but I think we may try them again. Granted, we have plenty of this crop still left in the plot, and the proof is in the eating, but things are looking good so far, and it’s nice to be harvesting our own fresh produce in the depths of winter.

Related posts:

1. The monster parsnips in our plot
2. Emptying the plot
3. This year’s beans are in the ground