Orto Successes and Failures
The orto so far this year has produced mixed results:
zucchini, green beans, tomatoes have gone mad
Thai holy basil, lemon grass, baby sweet corn also doing well, as are the swedes.
Failures at the moment: parsnips and mange tout. Think may need to shade them even more, or use more compost. Any other ideas?
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SHELTER OR SOIL TOO RICH
Glad to hear about your successes. Regarding failures, I´m afraid parsnips are not the topic for me to give any advice; however, mange-tout could be suffering from not enough shelter or maybe the soil was too rich. In that case, they would have produced too many leaves and not enough pods.... Was this the case?
Have you ever had success
Have you ever had success with parsnips? We've tried a couple of times and absolutely nothing has appeared.Shame because we do like the odd roast parsnip.
Onions are a huge success, but garlic a non-starter.
Everything else, pretty good. Olives looking rather good too at the moment.
LONG, COLD WINTERS
Somebody told me that parsnips need a long, cold winter and I have never lived in regions with those characteristics. For this reason, I prefer to go to my friendly greengrocer's. Whenever climate conditions are not suitable, I do not take any chances.
Mange Tout
They have been shaded, pre-started in pots, but have not grown higher than a couple of inches. Will have to experiment a bit more, maybe clay soil is not good for them.
As for the parsnips, this is the first year of trying!!!