Fothergill's Parsnip Tender & True Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Pastinaca sativa, a highly esteemed, prize-winning heirloom parsnip variety.
• Exceptional Gourmet Flavour: Renowned for its superb, sweet, and nutty flavor with a fine, coreless texture that makes it absolute perfection for roasting, mashing, or baking.
• Exhibition Quality Profile: Consistently produces long, straight, and beautifully uniform cream-skinned roots that look as flawless on the show bench as they do on the dinner table.
• Reliable and Productive Cropper: A robust and dependable performer in British soils, yielding heavy, high-quality crops that satisfy the demands of any allotment or kitchen garden.
• Superb Winter Hardiness: Fully frost-hardy; the mature roots can be left standing safely in the frozen ground all winter long, allowing you to harvest them fresh right when you need them.
• Sweetness Enhanced by Frost: Designed to store its natural sugars in the root, which convert into an intensely sweet flavor after exposure to the first sharp autumn and winter frosts.

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 keep the seedbed damp; parsnip seeds are naturally slow to germinate and can take up to 21 days to emerge.
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