Suttons Parsnip Tender & True

Excellent for exhibition and for culinary purposes. Long, smooth-skinned roots with considerable resistance to canker. Specially recommended. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner.

Sow thinly into finely raked, warm, moist soil at a depth of 13mm in rows 30cm apart. Thin seedlings tp 15cm between plants. For exhibition purposes sow 3 or 4 seeds in prepared holes previously filled with finely sieved compost. Thin to strongest seedling. Grows best in well cultivated sil which has not recently been manured, otherwise forked roots may occur. Lift roots as required. Frosts sweeten the flavour.
Sowing -> Cropping 28-32 weeks.