Recently a reader asked if growing parsnips is easy. The simple answer is they are easy to grow. Here are the tips to grow good parsnips from the University of Minnesota. Proper soil preparation is ...

If you don’t know how to grow parsnips yet, it’s likely someone told you they were hard to grow. This would be unfair, in our opinion. The humble parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is low maintenance and ...

Parsnips are another of the old-world vegetables that are experiencing a huge resurgence in the culinary world. Their flavor, somewhere between the bite of a radish and the sweetness of a carrot, is a ...

If you enjoy eating carrots and growing them in your garden, I encourage you to try your hand at cultivating parsnips, too. They’re one of my family’s favorite root crops. Parsnips (Pastinaca sativa) ...

Many people think about growing carrots in their garden. Some people think about beets, but even fewer people think about parsnips. All three of these crops are easy to grow and similar to plant.

A couple of weeks ago, I included a recipe venison vegetable soup in my article, and the recipe had a parsnip in it. Well, I had to buy that parsnip, and it has been on my mind ever since. I had been ...

The parsnip may sound like a homely, persnickety kind of vegetable, but its roots, if left in the ground through winter, are fresh and ready to harvest when most other homegrown vegetables are ...

Parsnips overwintered in the garden and dug early in the spring are extra sweet and tender. (Pat Munts/For The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo I harvested my first crop of vegetables from the garden ...

The end of the growing season is upon us (for the most part), but we’ve had a good run. I can’t tell you a time where I was picking tomatoes or peppers from my home garden in mid-October. But November ...

Grow parsnips to add some variety to your roasted root veggies. Think potatoes, carrots, parsnips and turnips tossed in garlic, herbs and olive oil. Yum! (For details on growing many other vegetables ...