Organic Parsnip Tender and True Heirloom Seeds

Genuine Ancestry Seed Bank Special Design packaging Planting & Growing Instruction read the seed packet Professional DEFRA licence and Soil Association Organic Certified. To prevent damping off when starting seeds indoors, it’s essential that you disinfect all of your plastic grow ...Genuine Ancestry Seed Bank Special Design packaging Planting & Growing Instruction read the seed packet Professional DEFRA licence and Soil Association Organic Certified. To prevent damping off when starting seeds indoors, it’s essential that you disinfect all of your plastic grow trays, seed cells, and seedling tray covers before you reuse them.

Parsnips are native to the eastern Mediterranean region and were cultivated from the wild. The modern parsnip was definitely illustrated in Germany in 1542. Eight years later it was again illustrated, under the German name Pestnachen, apparently a Germanized form of the old Roman pastinaca.

It was British colonists that introduced the vegetable into the New World in 1609. Introduced in 1897, the Tender and True Parsnip has long, tapering roots measuring 3 inches across at the shoulder. The long, elegant roots grow reliably straight in stone-free soil, and are therefore favourites in the show benches.

The cream-white flesh is of superb quality, tender and very sweet.