Parsnips?

[digitS']

If'n the question was: "What does celeriac (celery root) taste like?"

I bet it would be enuf to say: "Like celery."

The flavor to celery root is the same as celery. They are really just a "bulbing celery" but that bulb is very starchy, like a potato. They don't really have a potato flavor. However, we often cook celery and potato together, don't we? They take about the same amount of time to cook as potatoes so they are delicious in mashed potatoes or in the potato cakes we can make from the leftoverers the next morning !

It is necessary for me to start the celery root indoors and set out the plants in the spring. Otherwise, the bulbs may only grow to about the size of tennis balls. Storage life for the bulbs is great!

Steve
who, of course, would hesitate before adding celery root to Bubbles and Squeak.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i think i'm convinced to give those hollow crown parsnips a try next year. i've been seeing them in every catalog and i always seem to stop and read their description.

i'm just wondering if i should be careful not to save their seeds since we have a huge amount of Queen Ann's Lace growing in the yard. i know to be careful about saving any carrot seeds because of this potential cross pollination issue. :/

 

[digitS']

You may even want to not save seed because of wild parsnips, Chickie'sMoma:

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Parsnips are biennials, however. They have never stayed in my garden over the winter. I suppose that they would survive but it just isn't something I've done.

Steve

 

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?NMXFB 23 July 2012 Reaction to Wild Parsnip
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?MVNXL Article.
Closer to home. Message from my neighbour.
Our daughter spent Friday, July 13th weeding the Dunnville butterfly garden as part of her summer job duties. On Saturday (14th) she observed a red rash on her right arm upon waking in the AM, and by Sunday AM blistering had started. These photos were taken last Monday evening. She had the same rash on her left arm, but nowhere near as bad. She described the pain last weekend as a burn (no itching).It turned out the entire crew (5) developed the rash and blisters to some degree, but my daughter was by far the worse. The crew all returned to work at different locations with long sleeves and a tad more educated about plants.While not conclusively diagnosed to be wild parsnip exposure by a doctor, the team members feel this was the culprit and the symptoms thus far seem to fit. My daughter told me the evening of the 13th some of the weeds they were digging, pulling and cutting had yellow flowers and a strong odour.As far as the rash, the blisters all broke mid-week and healing has commenced. It looks like the arm has a very good case of road burn now.Please educate yourself on some of these new plant concerns, other then poison ivy, like wild parsnip and giant hogweed. The plants sap is particularly damaging.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i haven't seen that flower color yet on any part of the property. we tend to cut the Queen Ann with the lawn mower so there are only a few that i spotted in flower. i tried hacking those back when i saw the flowers but i know i didn't get everything that was out there. the wooded area around my coop i will have to keep an eye on. i thought i saw some plants with similar leaves but they never flowered this summer for me to be sure if they were the wild parsnip, cow's parsnip or something else in that same/similar family.