I only have a very small vegetable patch so have very little room to
grow the sort of vegetables I would like to grow. A nephew however gave
me some 25 litre plastic containers that had been used for the storage
and transport of honey.
I used three of these and planted them out with parsnip seeds back in
March. The results are really good. I lifted two this week-end gone
and they are great. The rest I am going to leave in the pots in the
peat I grew them in until the frost give them a "lick". I always felt
that frost improve parsnips no end.
I grew them in a medium of peat and soil mixture of 50% each, kept them
watered and fed them with Tomorite once I started feeding the tomatoes.
An occasional top dressing of "Growmore" was all that was needed.
I'm delighted with the results and would recommend anyone trying to grow
them the same way.

"Peter James" wrote in message
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I only have a very small vegetable patch so have very little room to
grow the sort of vegetables I would like to grow. A nephew however gave
me some 25 litre plastic containers that had been used for the storage
and transport of honey.
I used three of these and planted them out with parsnip seeds back in
March. The results are really good. I lifted two this week-end gone
and they are great. The rest I am going to leave in the pots in the
peat I grew them in until the frost give them a "lick". I always felt
that frost improve parsnips no end.

I agree, and thanks for that information. As an ex-beekeeper I have lots of
buckets!

Mary