Fothergill's Parsnip Gladiator F1 Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Pastinaca sativa, a superior and highly reliable F1 hybrid parsnip.
• Smooth Cream Skin: Produces clean, well-shaped, and smooth cream-coloured roots that are easy to wash and peel, resulting in minimal kitchen waste.
• Intensely Sweet Flavour: Packed with a high natural sugar content that intensifies after winter frosts, making it the ultimate choice for roasting, mashing, or baking into warming autumn stews.
• Advanced Canker Resistance: Specially bred to offer excellent natural resistance to parsnip canker, ensuring your roots remain clean, healthy, and visually pristine in the ground.
• Early to Mature: Fast-establishing and early-maturing compared to traditional varieties, giving you a reliable and highly productive harvest early in the season.
• Reliable Garden Performance: Demonstrates outstanding hybrid vigour, showing excellent consistency in root shape, size, and weight right down the row.

Care Instructions:

• Sow seeds directly outdoors from late winter to late spring in shallow drills 1.5cm deep into finely raked, deeply dug, stone-free soil.
• Keep rows spaced roughly 30cm apart and be patient, as parsnip seeds can take up to several weeks to germinate.
• Thin out the emerging seedlings to roughly 10cm to 15cm apart to allow the roots plenty of room to develop, and leave a few in the ground until after the first frosts to lock in their maximum sweetness.