Last of the Parsnips

Pulled up the last of the Parsnip Gladiator F1 today, took some hard work to dig these things up as they have really grown well and deep this year. We only really wanted enough to make some Parsnip wine, but we have had so many this year it’s been amazing.

The butternut squash in the photo’s where a parsnip swap with another allotment grower, so I can’t claim these as my own.

Lifted 4 almost perfect specimens, 2.41 kg for just these 4 alone.

All in all, I gathered in about 5.5kg of Parsnip Gladiator F1 this trip to the allotment, so in total we managed to grow about 15kg of parsnips this season.

Supermarket price (as of 12th Jan 21) is around £0.90/kg, so we grew £13.50 worth of these root veg, less the price of the seed at £0.60 for 75 seed, so £12.90 net. Not bad. Nearly paid for last years Allotment fees in just these. If we add in the 3 butternut squashes, at £1.50/kg. Which we swapped 2kg worth, that is plus £3.00. So lets say £15.90 net.