It's been raining for the past few days so I haven't really been out and about in the garden. Which is a bit of a pain to be honest, but when I think about it, the pain is kind of balanced out with the pleasure of seeing a happy, rain drenched garden.
It is indeed a fine line Ms Amphlett.
Anyway, it did stop raining for a wee while (I'm liking the Scottish blogs), and I went for a wee wander (a lot). I fiddled here and there, as you do, until I think I may or may not have fiddled a little too much.
I pulled this out of the ground, thinking it was a weed. Hmm... I don't know what it is, but it smells like a carrot... pictured above are the leaves and below the whole thing.
Do you know what it is?
37 comments:
I think it is a parsnip Miss Ali. A baby one!
I was gonna say parsnip too.. but hope for your sake it's not. bleh.
Looks like a parsnip to me too. I'm with Kat yek!
I've just topped a baby! Hazel, that's terrible... now I've never eaten parsnip, is it that bad? Hee hee, you two ladies sound like a pair of children :p
Yep, it looks like a parsnip. Poor thing will never fulfill its destiny of being put into a roasting pan with the other vegies and being roasted to just past an inch of its life.
RIP little parsnip.
I'd like to know how on earth a parsnip got into the garden... I've never even eaten one myself, so it seems a little strange to me. Perhaps it's a sign. Alison. Eat Some Parsnips.
NO DONT..!!!!!
Are they really that bad?
Now I'm dying to taste one. And plaster photos of it all over my blog :D
Mmmmm, caramalised roasted parsnips. And yes, it's a baby parsnip. Looked like it was growing rather well too ;)
Mrs Lottie I can't believe I pulled it out. I have such a hard time growing anything, and this is what I do!
Did you throw it away? Maybe take the bigger leaf off and replant it, I do that with beetroot and they reshoot fine.
I cannot believe I'm encouraging you to grow the thing, but if you've never tasted one and you're feeling masochistic, who am I to stand in your way. ;)
Kat, I threw it away! But it's raining and I only threw it onto the lawn, I might be able to save it if I grab it first thing in the morning.
Ooo you have given me hope!
I am sure it was one very long and very thin parsnip. I love parsnips in a soup.
Ali, hope you replanted it you Parsnip Plunderer you... ha ha.
Opinions are definitely divided about its popularity though, LOL!!
I love them roasted - it brings out their sweetness as well as a slightly nutty flavour.
They're good in soups too, however, use in moderation as I find they can overpower soup.
The world can do with with one less parsnip.
Esther
Greetings from the RSPPP (Royal Society for the Prevention of Parsnip Pinching)
Parsnips are supposed to improve with a touch of frost - Do you get frost Ali???
OK, stop all your "blether" you lot (note relevant use of Scottish terminology), parsnips are nice - no doubt about it! I lay claim to being the king of parsnips - I may not grow any prize-winners, but I defy anyone to claim they like them better than me. If you don't believe me, follow this link to an ealier blogpost of mine...
http://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/2010/12/roast-ham-with-parsnips.html
Mark thank you very much for keeping within the theme and producing some wee blether for us all. I am quite in awe of your status as the parsnip king, and will view your blog post presently. YUM. I'm starting to like parsnips, quite the controversial vegetable I see.
Mal I believe not, perhaps in the mountains and inland from here, but not where I live no. So no improving of parsnips in my yard.
Esther - harsh, very harsh.
Susan I am no determined that I will grow a parsnip, and not only a parsnip, but even parsnip in abundance. Roasting cauliflower also brings out that nuttiness, so I see what you mean with the parsnip.
Vrtlarica, poor little parsnip, I'll go outside and pick it up off the ground in a moment, and I shall endeavour to replant it and prolong its long and thin life!
I didn't realise one poor little mystery plant would cause such a divided opinion. Let's hope they never serve parsnip up for lunch during peace talks hey.
Try popping them in the deep freeze for a hour or two (remember to clean first) before cooking them.
Really? And that adds to the taste?
Ooo parsnips are just getting better and better!
Ali - it looks like a weed to me ..lol.
Wendy, that's quite funny... can you imagine me nurturing it through the seasons waiting for it to reach edibility!
The frost turns the starch into sugar.
Your soil must be ideal for growing as the root is long and straight. There are plenty of people in the UK filling barrels with special soil mixes and boring holes especially to grow long straight parsnips for show. If you make the soil too rich they fork. Mine I grow to eat - and if I grow too many, I make country wine from them.
That's really interesting Mal, as it was not really growing in soil as such, it was in all whole lot of chipped up poinciana branches, so nice and loose and not rich yet I would imagine, just as you say it likes.
I also thought the root looked very good, and was thinking it might just be the ideal area for growing carrots this year.
Okay, this is the funnest set of comments I've read in a long time....if ever! I have never partaken of a parsnip myself, but I'm rooting for that little re-planted fella like I've never rooted for anything before. (Rooted. Ha.)
Oh, and I would love, love to read a good Scottish blog! If you ever find yourself with a spare moment and feel like sending a link my way I think that would be so fun! I've got some Stewart in me.....or maybe it's Stuart. Oh, my grandma would be so disappointed in me.
Oh Teresa you are going to be disappointed because I could not find the little parsnip to rescue... but did any vegetable ever enjoy such an obituary?
The scottish blog that I love is Linda's Slow Growing in Scotland http://slowgrowinginscotland.blogspot.com/.
She uses some most excellent words, and from there I'd say the whole Scottish blogging world would be open to you.
Teresa - you might like
http://leavesnbloom.blogspot.com/
and
http://www.aberdeengardening.co.uk/diary/
too.
Esther
Darn it! Now I feel like a parsnip .... to eat I mean.... not literally ;-)
Into town tomorrow to buy one, as well as some cauliflower - just got the taste for both thanks to you Ali ... and all the above commenters.
He-Hemm Much as I dsislikr sef agrandsisement (or "bigging yourself up") mine is a Scottish Allotment Blog - and if you want to see what parsnips end up looking like (if they are not plucked before their time) see:
http://malsallotment.blogspot.com/2010/11/pick-up-parsnip.html
I do agree that my fellow Edinburgian Linda's Occasional Scotland and her Allotemnt gardening blog are model blogs.
Oh Mal, here you are supporting me all the way and I don't mention you. If you stuck a needle into my foot right now I'd feel a whole lot better. Go on, do it and we're even.
I must admit to being completely won over when Linda used the most fabulous word I have ever heard to describe a certain kind of mud, and I vowed to try to use it in every day conversation and then mock those who were not familiar with the word.
Susan just let me guide you in your day to day culinary choices!
I'm a bad person.
So what was that fabulous word? Or do I have to go and trowel (sorry, gardening pun) through Linda's whole blog to find it? I'm intrigued. And Laura from 'Our Wee Farm' has the most gorgeous Scottish accent ever. You should hear her say, "Oh no!" I wish blogs had accents.
Oh Mrs Lottie, that was a bit much suspense, wasn't it. The word was glaur, and I believe it describes a particular type of sticky mud.
Laura's blog is to die for, and in fact I would like to just go and live at her place forever it looks so scrumptiously lovely. And all that without hearing her accent!
Hee hee, no one would want to hear the Australian ones though!!
Sorry Ali - I was feeling a bit 'crabbit' yesterday (and my typing went to pot) Definitely no needle sticking - Better now!
Crabbit hey Mal, I like that one :)
I love parsnips, and I have to grow them because the girl in the supermarket looks at me funny if I buy them. Parsnip mash with sausages and gravy, parsnips roasted in a low GI veg roast, parsnips steamed with butter. Hmmm. Now turnips though, are another matter.
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