The weather was beautiful today (exceptionally cold and frosty but bright sunshine) so we went down to the allotment about 9 o'clock in the morning and planted some garlic at the bottom end of the bed with the Jerusalem Artichokes in. We put some new wire around the posts to support the raspberries when they start growing again. We also noticed some small green buds on the gooseberry bushes so things are starting to look up :-)
We then dug up the remaining parsnips in Henry's bed and the one next to his. We had 3 bags full of parsnips and some of them were about a foot and a half long !!! When we got home I made some Spicy Root Soup using some of them (a recipe in Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage Book 4), and also par-boiled a pile of them and froze them for easy roasting ! We gave a bag to Dave's parents and we have about 5 large ones left in the garage, and I'll probably make more soup once we've used the Root soup up.
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