Hint: when you sow your parsnips remember that they take ages to grow, so plant a row of radishes in the same row as radishes come up quickly and so you'll know where to hoe around the seedlings. Then, when the radishes have been removed, you'll be able to see where the parsnips are. I've just done this and it seems to work - BUT - eat the radishes quickly or they'll become hard and too strong and not even any good to 'put in the soup'. However they make good compost!
2 September 2011: Well I planted radishes and parsnips together and it definitely worked! However, next year I'm going to plant fewer radishes as they were rather too successful and became hard and too strong-tasting quicker than we could eat them.
2 September 2011: Well I planted radishes and parsnips together and it definitely worked! However, next year I'm going to plant fewer radishes as they were rather too successful and became hard and too strong-tasting quicker than we could eat them.
There's only one down side to this brilliant idea: we don't much like radishes.
So, this week I've steamed them along with other vegetables and they don't taste strong at all. Then as they were quite pleasant, I've now tried them in stir fries (nice and crunchy and not the usual bitter taste) and then today put them in the soup. Again, they were wonderful and gave a lovely colour to the soup.
19th July: Picked lots of vegetables up at the allotment this afternoon: runner beans, broad beans, peas, spinach, potatoes, radishes, lettuce, courgettes (including one double, see above).
View of the allotments from our house
Three pictures taken on 23 July 2011
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