How to start parsnip seeds in toilet rolls
Christmas dinner: home grown is always best!
Nothing beats homegrown!
If you are new to growing or would like to grow your Christmas Dinner for next year take a look at our guide to Christmas VegParsnip-Beetroot Rosti
Always keen to reduce food waste, we try not to throw food away. I was left with a portion of beetroot ragu from this weeks dinners and some of the giant parsnip I had harvested a couple of weeks ago was sitting in the fridge. Root veg are built to store well at low temperatures so there is no worry of the parsnip keeping well, but with over 20 more similar parsnips left in at the plot we better get eating them!
Christmas at the Allotment
Snow at the Allotment – Christmas 2009 Home-grown veggies for the perfect Christmas Dinner, using your garden to decorate your home, the gift of growing, what to put on your your list to Santa and how to escape the chaos for a bit of allotment time. Here is Don’t Crop Me Now’s guide to a perfect Christmas at the Allotment!
Corned beef hash with potatoes and root vegetables.
Winter is such a fab time for tasty veg on the allotment. One of my favourite winter vegetables are parsnips. Easy to grow (once you get them germinated!) and they can be stored in the ground right through till early Spring which means easy access to a great ingredient for winter cooking!
Last week I dug up this rather large parsnip. The variety is Gladiator which is very reliable. Grown in a ‘no dig’ bed, started in toilet rolls and transplanted – all the ‘no goes’ of traditional gardening methods! Another blog post maybe?
After a Sunday roast, and leftovers made into soup, I still had 3/4 of the beast left so I have a few meals planned this week to use the rest!
Firstly we have a corned beef hash with potatoes and root vegetables.