I just use my battery operated drill and the right size drillbit to put my holes in for my drip lines. It’s a lot easier on my hands because I have arthritis but that’s a pretty fancy tool you have!
I've never had a parsnip. Mama didn't buy grow or cook any. I'm in southeastern VA. Never seen one in the grocery store. I've seen it alot in British farm videos. So maybe there not well liked in the USA. But I'll be watching yours grow and what you do with them. Good to see ya up and around since your back injury.
Parsnip is one of my #1 roasting vegetables. You might already know but when the parsnip gets hit by frost the plant coverts starches to sugar as a cold defense mechanism, making a sugar antifreeze so they always taste so much better in the wintertime after being hit by frost. Nothing nicer on a cold winters day than a roast meat dinner with roast vegetables, parsnips and potatoes golden brown roasted goodness 😋
Your planting schedule is working out perfectly for me. Carrots, beets, parsnips, and lettuce are going in tomorrow in my side yard garden. Your videos are like attending a college course on how to grow food at home. I love all the details.
Beets: Try cooking them this way and see if Brooklyn likes them better. Cut the tops off and save for greens, not into the beet root. Do not disturb the skin on the beet. Wash any soil off. Put them in water whole skin on, boil until fork tender. Once cooked, drain. Hold each beet under cold running water and remove the skin. It will slip off easily with a little rubbing, twisting with fingers. Trim the tap root and the top off. Slice up into the pan you boiled them in. Add butter, salt, pepper and just heat up. Serve with the greens. I'm in south east Texas, similar climate.
I have a huge weed seed bank in my garden due to using leaves collected from my property, horse manure from our horses for making compost. And not always staying ahead of the weeds. I use a propane torch (I have a large torch which attaches to a 20# tank) on the row just prior to planting seeds. The drip tape is a complication but can still be used if careful. I have tested side by side. 90% fewer weeds where torched. I got the torch from Flame Engineering, VT2-23SVC Weed Dragon Vapor Torch Kit w/Squeeze Valve. I use a hand dolly for the 20# tank and a backpack for a 10# fiberglass tank.
Travis, you're right on time with this one! I spent the last two days re-installing my drip-tape system on my Zone A plot - Used my double wheel hoe to make furrows and my high arch to cover the tape! I've got mine on 3' spacing, and got all my brassicas in. Tomorrow I'll be planting carrots - 4 double rows. I've got to get one of those nifty hole punches! I had a splice a few of my old drip tapes, and will need to install a 8 - 10 new one in Zone B. That's a project for the end of this week and the weekend. Let the merriment commence!
I know you have a seeder. Have you ever used that for planting carrots? I agree that fall/winter carrots taste the best so I don't even bother planting at any other time of year. Plus my most common use of carrots is in soups and stews. (cold season food) :)
I have tried it for planting pelleted carrot seed, but didn't really care for it because I couldn't get them as thick as I wanted. From what I hear, those old Planet Jr. 300 series planters work great for planting raw carrot seeds because they drop them in a band.
Tried Chantennays last time, planted in Spring. Too wet, too much clay, and the weeds thrived among the carrot tops, where they were difficult to control. Wound up with lots of tops, but very few, and scrawny carrots. This October, we planted more Chantennays, but in large containers, with gardening soil mix, blended with pine shavings to keep it fluffy. Still early to tell, but so far, they're looking a LOT better than the last batch ever did.
Love me some beets. I like carrots too. I have not mastered root crops. For some reason they fell every time. I haven’t given up. I will try again until I get it.
I love to roast parsnips, carrots, mushrooms, onions and turnips in the oven with EVOO, salt, pepper and some fresh rosemary springs in the oven for holidays. I have not ha good luck with growing root veggies however. Not sure why but keep trying anyway lol. Got a few carrots this year and that's about it lol.
It's been some time since I've grown parsnips, but I know that the year you purchase the seeds, grow them use all the seeds, as the next year is not a good, as the seeds loose their growing power. They do grow really deep in the soil, and are a bit slower growing than carrots, but worth growing. A good idea to add some extra feeding to the growing season.
Hi Travis, my fall/winter garden consists of brussel sprouts, carrots, mache, bok choi, various winter lettuces, kale, collards,beets, chinese cabbage, parsely, fennel (reseeded itself), mustard, and leeks. Much of this will end up under low tunnel row covers, due to cold, ice, and snow. The NW wind dedicates the plants then the heavy frost will kill the plants..easy to do and everything grows much slower in zone 7b/6a due to further north of equator and days are shorter. Hope other gardeners can try this bc fresh veggies in winter are a real treat! Garden on everyone! Blessings.
I grew parsnips last winter. I'm a newbie, so I didn't even really fertilize. The parsnips took longer than the carrots. And I didn't get as good a germination rate as the carrots. But they were delicious! 😁
Interesting on how you do carrots. I plant twice here in zone 6b. I plant late summer/early fall and I have mature carrots at Christmas that can stay in ground through winter, even in sub-zero temps, with straw piled on them. It’s truly the backyard refrigerator. Then I plant a second crop mid to late February and harvest those until things get too hot, so usually early to mid June. The over-wintered ones will bolt as soon as day length increases. I leave a few all summer because the flower heads host all kinds of tiny pollinators and beneficial predatory wasps, etc. Carrots are one of my favorite things to grow!
We really can't plant any earlier than October in the fall because our soils are too warm and we don't get very good germination. That's awesome that you can plant that early in fall and have them by Christmas though!
good tips here Travis. my carrots are really doing good but the darn deer won’t leave them alone. i put a fence around them today! i’ve never grown parsnips but i grew salsify a couple times
Try planting marigolds around your carrots. Deer and rabbits abhor the smell of marigolds and it should give the added benefit of repelling insects. It isn't fool proof but it should help. Best part no chemicals.
First year I grew Avalanche beets, they are so sweet. I bought more seeds already for next year. Laura from Graden Answer did a video on parsnips. I believe she planted them in the fall (zone 5 east Oregon) and harvested them the following fall. They are a long growing vegetable. Good luck!! It will be fun to see them grow.
I'm growing parsnips for the first time this year too, although I started them earlier - on July 9 - since I'm in zone 6. The plants are much bigger than carrots, with bigger leaves. I sow my carrots thick like you but for parsnips I used 2-3 inch spacing and I'm glad I did.
Hey Travis! Great video and thank you for the great info on the carrots! Looks like I better go grab some more carrot seed. I did get the small pack of the envy that you had said before were a really good carrot flavor. But I will be going to farm and garden to for my bulk seed. I'll be on my vacation from my full time job starting Thursday so I should be right on time to get these Lil dudes in the ground. I have 1 flat of onion seeds that are surviving so far. But I may get more onion seeds as well. And thanks for that link on the drip tape punch. That does look way more efficient! I don't have drip tape yet in my arsenal but it is on my wish list for gardening tools. I may try a few parsnips from grocery store to see if we like them before I plant any though. My tillage radish plot is really taking off. As always thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience and trials. I look forward to watching every week each show you bring.
Looking forward to seeing how the carrots turn out. I’ve grown mine in large 20 gallon fabric pots and haven’t had great luck. My guess is the soil in the pots wasn’t the best. Had lots of small and forked growth so I may try growing them again using coir and compost. Glad to see you planting different color varieties- most people think that carrots are only orange but there are tons of varieties to choose from. Keep up the stellar work!!
That was good. I really only started getting great carrot harvests when I began following your advice about sowing thickly and keeping the seedbed well watered! My garden being small I do get out there and thin to get a more uniform size of carrot, it’s hard work but it keeps me out of trouble on canning day, my wife does not like helping me process tiny carrots! Parsnips are notoriously bad at germinating! I have seen some English gardeners sow three different varieties right on top of each other to increase their chances of getting a good stand.
I'm looking forward to following this. I put my onion starts and elephant garlic in the ground on 10/15 for the first time ever this year. That's much earlier than usual for me, but I'm hoping for better results than in the past. We'll see. I have beets and carrots going too but you just inspired me to plant more . Maybe they'll do well, depends on the weather. Thanks for the video. Texas 8b
Parsnips take a long time to grow for me in NW Ohio. I plant in late april early may & harvest the next year in march. I find they are worth the wait. One of my favorite vegetables. It will be interesting to see them grow in a different climate. thanks fro the good info.
Travis, Read when using pelleted seed, it’s better to top water which helps “wash” or “dissolve” the clay covering the seed..better germination…sound right? I always plant parsnips around Labor Day and Harvest Memorial Day..they’re a long haul veggie
Carrots: I have tried every variety but Nantes works best for me here. Something I discovered by accident as spring turned to summer, about April or so, carrots got woody. Well, some of the tops browned up and disappeared. Carrot row done or so I thought. Digging around in the row I discovered carrots down in the soil into July. Tender, juicy, sweet. By then temps in the 90's. I had the drip irrigation still going on that row, so they were watered. This is not something I plan out it just seems to happen. Most are small that got left behind and slower, from the thick planting of seeds.
Yeah that's usually why we don't grow much of a spring crop of carrots -- the get woody and don't hold in the soil very well. The overwintered ones tend to be much sweeter too.
Hi Travis, couple of questions...What is your fertilizing schedule for the carrots? What will you use and how often? Water requirements once they are out of the ground?
We gave them a scoop of 8-5-5 at planting, and we'll probably side dress with more of that once they get a few inches tall. I'll also probably run some balanced fertilizer through the drip system once every few weeks. As far as watering goes, I'll water them about 2x a week assuming no rainfall.
Beets, I'm planting a red and a yellow for the house, but I am also growing mangel beets (a sugar type) for the chickens. The greens are very tasty as well. Similar to chard and spinach.
They are huge and have a high sugar content. They are used for sugar in many parts of the world instead of cane. My thought is that if they are ground, then dehydrated, they could be used for feed.
I sowed parsnip seeds early this year around May. They took so long to germinate that I gave up on them. Then some weeds started coming up in that spot. I thought it was cilantro at first based on the leaf shape, but its smell told me otherwise. I ended up growing two parsnips. I dug up the bigger one last month but the smaller one is still in the ground. My family was not impressed with how I cooked the parsnip. I boiled it with some carrots because it looks like a carrot. It’s starchy with a carrot-like flavor but without the sweetness of a carrot. I think mashed with potatoes or roasted would be better.
i definitely like beetroot. either in eastern european borsch or roasted. last year i thought i'd give some of the white/creamy ones a go. they outperformed red beetroots by a mile, only to have them taste not very nice when cooked. ended up turfing a whole load of them in bin. so apart from occasional stripy Chioggia, i'll stick to deep red beetroots. I forgot, you can also brine ferment, but a good one also is finely grated lightly cooked on saucepan with right kind of spices, as veggie side dish.
Parsnips take a long time to grow and can get very large before they go woody, I'm talking more than a foot long, sometimes more, check them for tenderness and have patience. At least that has been my experience, for what it's worth. That said, I wouldn't let them get humongus unless your a beaver :)
Here's the fitting used at the beginning of the row to connect the tape to the mainline tubing: bit.ly/3CL1UOA And here's the fitting used to crimp the tape at the end of each row: bit.ly/3yv3P7u
I have the GreenStalk with the deeper wells and I planted several different varieties of carrots in about 5 or 6 of the wells as an experiment and then I kind of forgot to keep them damp, but they have come up GREAT!! I was going to thin them, but after this video I think I am going to leave them alone and see what happens!! I just love gardening vlogs!!!!!
Travis, question about the drip irrigation hole punch in the video. Went to your website which sent me to Amazon, and the punch is currently out of stock, but it says the punch die size it comes with is a 3mm, and you have to buy the other sizes (2mm and 4mm) separately which I didn't see on Amazon. I'm assuming my drip fittings are the same size fittings as yours (From HOSS) which I believe are 1/4" which I believe would equal a 6mm punch, so which size hole punch die did you use on your punch? Thanks, and thanks so much for the wonderful videos! :)
The stock punch that was included works perfectly for the drip tape fittings we use. It also works for the drip emitter fittings that we use on our fig tree orchard.
horse radish is easy to grow and taste great. harvest in the fall and prepare. watch videos on how to prepare and let it go several minutes more than they suggest before you add the vinegar.
No Swiss Chard?? They are a close cousin to beets, so the last couple of years I have planted one whenever I am planting the other. What gets me is that carrots and queen anne's lace are practically the same plant, and carrots can be tricky to get to germinate if one does not have irrigation, but let one queen anne's lace go to seed on the edge of the yard and it seems like every single seed produces a new plant, rain or no rain.
No hints on growing parsnips but from what I've watched on the youtube 1- parsnips seeds need to be fresh and 2 - be careful when harvesting them - the tops can cause nasty blisters if you get sap on you.
Thanks got some great info, getting ready to turn over two of my raise beds one for carrots and one for onions and garlic. Probably still need to wait a little bit still in the mid to upper 80s here. Right now I have Purple hall pink IT’s that are dying back quite quickly. Do you recommend pulling the vines or just cutting them back in topping off the raise beds. They have sink about 56 inches so I do need to add soil or compost anyhow. Just didn’t know if I needed to pull all the lines out and dad leaves or just mix it all together? Thanks again
Any idea why my beet roots always grow like a short stubby carrot? They are never round and taste awful. I always make sure the soil is fluffy. The tops always look and taste great. Could it possibly be the Boron issue? Would giving them a shot of Micro-boost every week help my issue? Thanks so much for always answering our questions.
Travis, by the sound of your voice, it’s looks like the ragweed and goldenrod is going strong there like it is here in AL. 🤧 when do you know carrots are ready to pull?
I check the size of the top of the carrot. Move a little soil away from the top of the carrot and if wide enough I pull it, usually pull every other one and gives other carrots more room to grow bigger. I over wintered my carrots in the garden with straw, hay, and leaves for mulch and wow they were super sweet!
@@robinwhitlatch4497 thank you so much for taking the time to a newer back. I have just never had a fall garden so this is new to me. I have always just grew summer vegetables. I canned my first batch of mustard greens yesterday. Looking forward to carrots. Happy gardening.
@@LazyDogFarm and yet, I have a paper bag full of carrot seeds from late spring seed heads. I allowed the carrots with the flowers to stay in ground until they produced seeds.
Omg parsnips take FOREVER. I grew some last year and They were in the damn ground nearly a year before they had any size to them. Never growing them again lol.
I just use my battery operated drill and the right size drillbit to put my holes in for my drip lines. It’s a lot easier on my hands because I have arthritis but that’s a pretty fancy tool you have!
I've never had a parsnip. Mama didn't buy grow or cook any. I'm in southeastern VA. Never seen one in the grocery store. I've seen it alot in British farm videos. So maybe there not well liked in the USA. But I'll be watching yours grow and what you do with them.
Good to see ya up and around since your back injury.
They have been a huge hit in our kitchen. We've been making fried chips with them and they are so good! I'd highly recommend growing some.
Parsnip is one of my #1 roasting vegetables. You might already know but when the parsnip gets hit by frost the plant coverts starches to sugar as a cold defense mechanism, making a sugar antifreeze so they always taste so much better in the wintertime after being hit by frost. Nothing nicer on a cold winters day than a roast meat dinner with roast vegetables, parsnips and potatoes golden brown roasted goodness 😋
Man u making me hungry!
Love them roasted.
You have made me want to grow some parsnips!!
@Hobby Woodworker I know most veggies do get sweeter with a frost, but didn't know that about parsnips. Thanks for sharing!
Harvested my first ever parsnips the other day and they were incredibly sweet roasted.
Your planting schedule is working out perfectly for me. Carrots, beets, parsnips, and lettuce are going in tomorrow in my side yard garden. Your videos are like attending a college course on how to grow food at home. I love all the details.
Thanks Sue! Glad you're following along.
mashed parsnips and carrots with butter is sooooo good!
That does sound good!
Always plant the beets thick. Then thin a little for greens. Yummy.
Yes!
Beets: Try cooking them this way and see if Brooklyn likes them better. Cut the tops off and save for greens, not into the beet root. Do not disturb the skin on the beet. Wash any soil off. Put them in water whole skin on, boil until fork tender. Once cooked, drain. Hold each beet under cold running water and remove the skin. It will slip off easily with a little rubbing, twisting with fingers. Trim the tap root and the top off. Slice up into the pan you boiled them in. Add butter, salt, pepper and just heat up. Serve with the greens. I'm in south east Texas, similar climate.
Thanks for the recipe Bern!
Really diggin' the new music, Travis! 😊Thanks for the planting tips, looking forward to the next video for feeding the root vegetables!
Thanks Jamie! Decided to add a little bluesy feel to this one.
I have a huge weed seed bank in my garden due to using leaves collected from my property, horse manure from our horses for making compost. And not always staying ahead of the weeds. I use a propane torch (I have a large torch which attaches to a 20# tank) on the row just prior to planting seeds. The drip tape is a complication but can still be used if careful. I have tested side by side. 90% fewer weeds where torched. I got the torch from Flame Engineering, VT2-23SVC Weed Dragon Vapor Torch Kit w/Squeeze Valve. I use a hand dolly for the 20# tank and a backpack for a 10# fiberglass tank.
The torch is a neat trick for sure!
Good & timely video as usual
Travis, you're right on time with this one! I spent the last two days re-installing my drip-tape system on my Zone A plot - Used my double wheel hoe to make furrows and my high arch to cover the tape! I've got mine on 3' spacing, and got all my brassicas in. Tomorrow I'll be planting carrots - 4 double rows. I've got to get one of those nifty hole punches! I had a splice a few of my old drip tapes, and will need to install a 8 - 10 new one in Zone B. That's a project for the end of this week and the weekend. Let the merriment commence!
Enjoy your irrigation install Carol!
I know you have a seeder. Have you ever used that for planting carrots? I agree that fall/winter carrots taste the best so I don't even bother planting at any other time of year. Plus my most common use of carrots is in soups and stews. (cold season food) :)
I have tried it for planting pelleted carrot seed, but didn't really care for it because I couldn't get them as thick as I wanted. From what I hear, those old Planet Jr. 300 series planters work great for planting raw carrot seeds because they drop them in a band.
@@LazyDogFarm The Jain seeder is supposed to be really good for doing carrots and lettuce.
Tried Chantennays last time, planted in Spring. Too wet, too much clay, and the weeds thrived among the carrot tops, where they were difficult to control. Wound up with lots of tops, but very few, and scrawny carrots. This October, we planted more Chantennays, but in large containers, with gardening soil mix, blended with pine shavings to keep it fluffy. Still early to tell, but so far, they're looking a LOT better than the last batch ever did.
Great to hear you adapted, and it sounds like it's working!
Love me some beets. I like carrots too. I have not mastered root crops. For some reason they fell every time. I haven’t given up. I will try again until I get it.
Once you get the hang of it, it will be like riding a bike.
I love to roast parsnips, carrots, mushrooms, onions and turnips in the oven with EVOO, salt, pepper and some fresh rosemary springs in the oven for holidays. I have not ha good luck with growing root veggies however. Not sure why but keep trying anyway lol.
Got a few carrots this year and that's about it lol.
That sounds like an excellent roasted veggie medley! Gonna have to try that!
Mine went through the 2020 Texas winter -4 degrees still taste good.
Nice!
It's been some time since I've grown parsnips, but I know that the year you purchase the seeds, grow them use all the seeds, as the next year is not a good, as the seeds loose their growing power. They do grow really deep in the soil, and are a bit slower growing than carrots, but worth growing. A good idea to add some extra feeding to the growing season.
Thanks for the tips. I'll be sure to feed them.
super super super super super super super super super super super tip
Hi Travis, my fall/winter garden consists of brussel sprouts, carrots, mache, bok choi, various winter lettuces, kale, collards,beets, chinese cabbage, parsely, fennel (reseeded itself), mustard, and leeks. Much of this will end up under low tunnel row covers, due to cold, ice, and snow. The NW wind dedicates the plants then the heavy frost will kill the plants..easy to do and everything grows much slower in zone 7b/6a due to further north of equator and days are shorter. Hope other gardeners can try this bc fresh veggies in winter are a real treat! Garden on everyone! Blessings.
Sounds like you've got it figured out!
@@LazyDogFarm each year is different bc every gardening year is diffrent..lol..
I hope everything grows well...I have never had a parsnip before. I hope to try one before too long..
Hopefully we can actually grow some so you can see if you want to try them.
Good to know! I thought it was too late to plant carrots, going to do this tomorrow.
Go for it!
Enjoy your choice of music in your videos :)
Glad you enjoy it!
I grew parsnips last winter. I'm a newbie, so I didn't even really fertilize. The parsnips took longer than the carrots. And I didn't get as good a germination rate as the carrots. But they were delicious! 😁
Good to know about the germination!
Interesting on how you do carrots. I plant twice here in zone 6b. I plant late summer/early fall and I have mature carrots at Christmas that can stay in ground through winter, even in sub-zero temps, with straw piled on them. It’s truly the backyard refrigerator. Then I plant a second crop mid to late February and harvest those until things get too hot, so usually early to mid June. The over-wintered ones will bolt as soon as day length increases. I leave a few all summer because the flower heads host all kinds of tiny pollinators and beneficial predatory wasps, etc. Carrots are one of my favorite things to grow!
We really can't plant any earlier than October in the fall because our soils are too warm and we don't get very good germination. That's awesome that you can plant that early in fall and have them by Christmas though!
good tips here Travis. my carrots are really doing good but the darn deer won’t leave them alone. i put a fence around them today! i’ve never grown parsnips but i grew salsify a couple times
Try planting marigolds around your carrots. Deer and rabbits abhor the smell of marigolds and it should give the added benefit of repelling insects. It isn't fool proof but it should help. Best part no chemicals.
@@joeyl.rowland4153 i’ll try that next year. the rabbits love my cole crops when the plants are young
@Kenny T Never tried salsify. Always been curious about it though.
First year I grew Avalanche beets, they are so sweet. I bought more seeds already for next year. Laura from Graden Answer did a video on parsnips. I believe she planted them in the fall (zone 5 east Oregon) and harvested them the following fall. They are a long growing vegetable. Good luck!! It will be fun to see them grow.
Thanks for sharing that Leah. Sounds like they'll be ready around the same time as the carrots.
This is awesome. Thanks as always.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm growing parsnips for the first time this year too, although I started them earlier - on July 9 - since I'm in zone 6. The plants are much bigger than carrots, with bigger leaves. I sow my carrots thick like you but for parsnips I used 2-3 inch spacing and I'm glad I did.
Uh oh. Hope I didn't plant mine too thick.
Lots of good info here. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Hey Travis! Great video and thank you for the great info on the carrots! Looks like I better go grab some more carrot seed. I did get the small pack of the envy that you had said before were a really good carrot flavor. But I will be going to farm and garden to for my bulk seed. I'll be on my vacation from my full time job starting Thursday so I should be right on time to get these Lil dudes in the ground. I have 1 flat of onion seeds that are surviving so far. But I may get more onion seeds as well. And thanks for that link on the drip tape punch. That does look way more efficient! I don't have drip tape yet in my arsenal but it is on my wish list for gardening tools. I may try a few parsnips from grocery store to see if we like them before I plant any though. My tillage radish plot is really taking off. As always thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience and trials. I look forward to watching every week each show you bring.
Enjoy your vacation Cynthia!
Looking forward to seeing how the carrots turn out. I’ve grown mine in large 20 gallon fabric pots and haven’t had great luck. My guess is the soil in the pots wasn’t the best. Had lots of small and forked growth so I may try growing them again using coir and compost. Glad to see you planting different color varieties- most people think that carrots are only orange but there are tons of varieties to choose from. Keep up the stellar work!!
It's always good to plant the rainbow!
That was good. I really only started getting great carrot harvests when I began following your advice about sowing thickly and keeping the seedbed well watered! My garden being small I do get out there and thin to get a more uniform size of carrot, it’s hard work but it keeps me out of trouble on canning day, my wife does not like helping me process tiny carrots! Parsnips are notoriously bad at germinating! I have seen some English gardeners sow three different varieties right on top of each other to increase their chances of getting a good stand.
Definitely a learning curve on the parsnips. Ours are germinated, but I should have planted them thicker.
As always another great video.
Thanks Eddie!
Would be neat to see you plant some of the Baker Creek Uzbek cylinder carrots to see how they do.
Haven't heard of those. I'll go take a look.
I'm looking forward to following this. I put my onion starts and elephant garlic in the ground on 10/15 for the first time ever this year. That's much earlier than usual for me, but I'm hoping for better results than in the past. We'll see. I have beets and carrots going too but you just inspired me to plant more . Maybe they'll do well, depends on the weather. Thanks for the video. Texas 8b
Sounds like you've got a great start to the fall planting!
Parsnips take a long time to grow for me in NW Ohio. I plant in late april early may & harvest the next year in march. I find they are worth the wait. One of my favorite vegetables. It will be interesting to see them grow in a different climate. thanks fro the good info.
Ever try starting in seed trays? My grandpa did in eastern Kentucky. It worked for him and shortened his grow time.
Thanks for sharing that Tmoney.
Travis,
Read when using pelleted seed, it’s better to top water which helps “wash” or “dissolve” the clay covering the seed..better germination…sound right?
I always plant parsnips around Labor Day and Harvest Memorial Day..they’re a long haul veggie
That's right. Anytime using pelleted seed, give them some overhead water for best germination.
We've had really good results with the Johnny's carrots for uniformity , and yes they will take cold well if outside cover em up then dig later.
I've always good success with their and High Mowing's carrots.
Carrots: I have tried every variety but Nantes works best for me here. Something I discovered by accident as spring turned to summer, about April or so, carrots got woody. Well, some of the tops browned up and disappeared. Carrot row done or so I thought. Digging around in the row I discovered carrots down in the soil into July. Tender, juicy, sweet. By then temps in the 90's. I had the drip irrigation still going on that row, so they were watered. This is not something I plan out it just seems to happen. Most are small that got left behind and slower, from the thick planting of seeds.
Yeah that's usually why we don't grow much of a spring crop of carrots -- the get woody and don't hold in the soil very well. The overwintered ones tend to be much sweeter too.
I'm pondering a mix of carrots and bunching onions in a row... maybe a celery plant here and there?
That might work! I'd love to see a photo of it once it was all growing.
Hi Travis, couple of questions...What is your fertilizing schedule for the carrots? What will you use and how often? Water requirements once they are out of the ground?
We gave them a scoop of 8-5-5 at planting, and we'll probably side dress with more of that once they get a few inches tall. I'll also probably run some balanced fertilizer through the drip system once every few weeks. As far as watering goes, I'll water them about 2x a week assuming no rainfall.
Beets, I'm planting a red and a yellow for the house, but I am also growing mangel beets (a sugar type) for the chickens. The greens are very tasty as well. Similar to chard and spinach.
Nice. Haven't ever tried the mangel beets.
They are huge and have a high sugar content. They are used for sugar in many parts of the world instead of cane. My thought is that if they are ground, then dehydrated, they could be used for feed.
Always good advice!!! Planted our beets yesterday and plan on planting carrots one day this week. ✌
Perfect!
Very good informative video. I appreciate the info and learning how you do things. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
I have to start my parsnips a month earlier than my carrots. No chance in spring for them here in NC
What is the music you are playing while you are making your rows,,it is great? I'd like to get that on my favorites.
I sowed parsnip seeds early this year around May. They took so long to germinate that I gave up on them. Then some weeds started coming up in that spot. I thought it was cilantro at first based on the leaf shape, but its smell told me otherwise. I ended up growing two parsnips. I dug up the bigger one last month but the smaller one is still in the ground. My family was not impressed with how I cooked the parsnip. I boiled it with some carrots because it looks like a carrot. It’s starchy with a carrot-like flavor but without the sweetness of a carrot. I think mashed with potatoes or roasted would be better.
Roasted parsnips are so good!
i definitely like beetroot. either in eastern european borsch or roasted. last year i thought i'd give some of the white/creamy ones a go. they outperformed red beetroots by a mile, only to have them taste not very nice when cooked. ended up turfing a whole load of them in bin. so apart from occasional stripy Chioggia, i'll stick to deep red beetroots. I forgot, you can also brine ferment, but a good one also is finely grated lightly cooked on saucepan with right kind of spices, as veggie side dish.
Thanks for sharing Chris!
Parsnips take a long time to grow and can get very large before they go woody, I'm talking more than a foot long, sometimes more, check them for tenderness and have patience. At least that has been my experience, for what it's worth. That said, I wouldn't let them get humongus unless your a beaver :)
Thanks for the tips. I'll keep an eye on them once the year turns.
What are the pieces u used to attach to the tubing? I mean the fittings on the end
Here's the fitting used at the beginning of the row to connect the tape to the mainline tubing: bit.ly/3CL1UOA
And here's the fitting used to crimp the tape at the end of each row: bit.ly/3yv3P7u
Thank you. I will be ordering some
1st - You need to plant Aswad Egg Plant next year!
Thanks for the tip Paul. Now if I can only say the name without laughing ... lol
I have the GreenStalk with the deeper wells and I planted several different varieties of carrots in about 5 or 6 of the wells as an experiment and then I kind of forgot to keep them damp, but they have come up GREAT!! I was going to thin them, but after this video I think I am going to leave them alone and see what happens!! I just love gardening vlogs!!!!!
Yeah just leave them. They'll push each other out the way and make room.
Beet tops are my preferrence. Also like wilted leaf lettuce.
Beet tops are good!
You mentioned market farming groups on Facebook. What are some good groups?
There's one called "Market Gardening Success Group" and another called "Gardening for Market." Both are good.
Travis, question about the drip irrigation hole punch in the video. Went to your website which sent me to Amazon, and the punch is currently out of stock, but it says the punch die size it comes with is a 3mm, and you have to buy the other sizes (2mm and 4mm) separately which I didn't see on Amazon. I'm assuming my drip fittings are the same size fittings as yours (From HOSS) which I believe are 1/4" which I believe would equal a 6mm punch, so which size hole punch die did you use on your punch? Thanks, and thanks so much for the wonderful videos! :)
The stock punch that was included works perfectly for the drip tape fittings we use. It also works for the drip emitter fittings that we use on our fig tree orchard.
Hey Travis, how did tye parsnips turn out? Can you plant them in spring? Or only fall in our zone 8b?
Really well. We're about to harvest our parnsips that we planted in the fall. They take a while, so I think fall planting is probably best.
How well did they sprout?
Really well. Here's a video showing them a couple weeks ago: ruclips.net/video/Xy2_BZuz3kA/видео.html
And we'll have another update on Friday.
I'm in North Atlanta could I grow beets and carrots now....Oct 23
You'd probably still be okay if you planted them right now.
About 100 days for parsnips. They will be sweeter if you v=can overwinter.
Good to know Pat!
What about horseradish Travis? I have never grown them but I always wanted to. Can you grow them there?
horse radish is easy to grow and taste great. harvest in the fall and prepare. watch videos on how to prepare and let it go several minutes more than they suggest before you add the vinegar.
@Joey L. Rowland I've never grown it either, but I do like horseradish!
No Swiss Chard?? They are a close cousin to beets, so the last couple of years I have planted one whenever I am planting the other.
What gets me is that carrots and queen anne's lace are practically the same plant, and carrots can be tricky to get to germinate if one does not have irrigation, but let one queen anne's lace go to seed on the edge of the yard and it seems like every single seed produces a new plant, rain or no rain.
I like growing Swiss Chard and like eating it. Not sure why I haven't planted any lately.
No hints on growing parsnips but from what I've watched on the youtube 1- parsnips seeds need to be fresh and 2 - be careful when harvesting them - the tops can cause nasty blisters if you get sap on you.
Thanks Cathy. Seems like I've heard that about the sap too.
Thanks got some great info, getting ready to turn over two of my raise beds one for carrots and one for onions and garlic. Probably still need to wait a little bit still in the mid to upper 80s here. Right now I have Purple hall pink IT’s that are dying back quite quickly. Do you recommend pulling the vines or just cutting them back in topping off the raise beds. They have sink about 56 inches so I do need to add soil or compost anyhow. Just didn’t know if I needed to pull all the lines out and dad leaves or just mix it all together? Thanks again
You can just cut them at soil level if you plan on topping with a decent amount of compost. Otherwise, they'll probably grow back a little.
Any idea why my beet roots always grow like a short stubby carrot? They are never round and taste awful. I always make sure the soil is fluffy. The tops always look and taste great. Could it possibly be the Boron issue? Would giving them a shot of Micro-boost every week help my issue? Thanks so much for always answering our questions.
That would definitely help. I'd start there.
Travis, by the sound of your voice, it’s looks like the ragweed and goldenrod is going strong there like it is here in AL. 🤧 when do you know carrots are ready to pull?
It is! That and the kids brought something back from Disney a week ago, so we've all been a little stuffy.
@@LazyDogFarm ugh that time of year. Feel better soon. Hugs and prayers all around.
I check the size of the top of the carrot. Move a little soil away from the top of the carrot and if wide enough I pull it, usually pull every other one and gives other carrots more room to grow bigger. I over wintered my carrots in the garden with straw, hay, and leaves for mulch and wow they were super sweet!
@@robinwhitlatch4497 thank you so much for taking the time to a newer back. I have just never had a fall garden so this is new to me. I have always just grew summer vegetables. I canned my first batch of mustard greens yesterday. Looking forward to carrots. Happy gardening.
you need to get a bucket of quality quick connects, will save you some time.
Got a link?
What name does boron go by in store?
There is some stuff called "20 Mule Team Borax."
@@LazyDogFarm oh ‼️,I have some in my laundry room...how much should I use
Go ahead and plant all those parsnip seeds. They are like onions, the seeds don't last long. Love them roasted or in soup.
Thanks for the tip!
my overwintered carrots grew some seed heads this spring. Does this ever happen to you?
That hasn't ever happened. Carrots usually don't produce seeds until their second year of growth
@@LazyDogFarm and yet, I have a paper bag full of carrot seeds from late spring seed heads. I allowed the carrots with the flowers to stay in ground until they produced seeds.
Omg parsnips take FOREVER. I grew some last year and They were in the damn ground nearly a year before they had any size to them. Never growing them again lol.
Wow. Hope ours don't take that long.