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Catherine, I loved your article on root crops coupled with planting and growing tips and recipes. I love parsnips and they are so hard to find in the grocery store. The bag girl in the store asked me what they tasted like. I couldn't tell her that I think they taste a little like shoe polish paste smells. Do people still even shine their shoes? More, possibly, than parsnips I love radishes and daikon. While these are easier to find at the store, they are generally too large and too pithy or woody. There's nothing like a radish or daikon harvested at their prime and that maintain that taste of the soil. I have a few questions if you don't mind.
Salsify: I've only seen it growing once, at the garden at Monticello. Have you grown it? Are the growing needs like those of carrots?
Your own garden: How long would you estimate it took you to get soil that produces good root crops in Virginia's high clay soil?
I have grown salsify and thought it was pretty bland and blech. We have a Troybilt rototiller so dealing with the clay was nothing. We have good crops the first year and they just kept getting better as we added amendments and learn more and more about what we were trying to do. We were into sustainable alternatives long before it had a name, LOL.
Thank you for the kind compliments. :)
Cathy, first I bought flower plants, then I started growing flowers plants from seeds, and now you Article Writers are going to have me growing (gasp) vegetables! All I have to do is convince my fussy family to eat them.
Yummy, yummy. Get them to set you up a trellis you can work with. Use old pantyhose and knee highs to hold the fruit. Cleaner fruit and less problems with bugs.
