Veg4Show

Well I did manage to get those parsnips in eventually and I predict they should be up in 3 days. Normally it takes 17-20 days inside so I'm expecting them to be up any day now.

I have gone totally mad, never happy and always wanting to try new things and gone with this method.

I still believe growing in 6inch pipes can produce top notch parsnips from what I have tested. They will travel down forever in a pipe and always stay dead straight, but thats the problem..controlling the length. I can't stop them and the tails suffer because of this reaching the bottom of a 7ft pipe. I tried increasing the length of the pipes but found the compression was to high for anything over 4.5ft in length and also the bore hole restricted due to the extra length. Thats all for another day to explain tho when I get around it.

This method is half and half. I still have quite a bit of pipe going into the barrel to keep that compression on the top. I'm hoping what with with planting them later and using this method I can grow similar parsnips that I do in pipes but less length. I'm sure people will think I'm crazy wanting less length but trust me, no one want's to pull perfect parsnips to find they are 2cms across at the tail, it just doesn't work, I need 100% to be smooth whisper thin tails.

(ignore barrels on the far right, that is where my tomatoes will grown and these barrels will go the other side of the parsnips for my carrots)