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Parsnip Avon Resister
A variety of parsnip
How to sow parsnip Avon resister: Direct Sow in Spring, evenly sprinkling over 1-2 square metres of the finely worked garden bed. Cover with an old sheet or 70% shade cloth to encourage seed germinations and to prevent weeds from germinating before parsnips.
Sun requirement for parsnip Avon resister: Plant in Full Sun
Possibly an early commercial variety in New Zealand, if not then it is an older New Zealand heritage variety, kept alive in the South Island in recent years, passed to Koanga Institute by Henry Harrington. It is extremely rare and unavailable elsewhere as far as we know. It’s an easy to grow, classic looking parsnip that tastes great. Grows well all over New Zealand.
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Parsnip avon resister facts
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What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For parsnip Avon resister, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 5°C and a shortest growing cycle of 80 days at its best temperature, about 1040 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your parsnip Avon resister will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing parsnip Avon resisters
- Dig the bed fine and stone free 2 weeks before sowing
- Mark the rows with radish seed at sowing
- Set or refill beer traps for slugs and snails 2 weeks after sowing every week
- Thin the seedlings 4 weeks after sowing
- Weed carefully between the rows 6 weeks after sowing every month
- Water in dry weather 6 weeks after sowing every 2 weeks
- Lift roots after a frost for sweetness at first harvest
- Lift the rest of the crop 8 weeks after first harvest
Plant parsnip Avon resisters with
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Pastinaca sativa L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Apiales Umbelliferae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: -1 °C, rest: -5 °C |
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual, biennial |
| Habit | acaulescent (or rosette plants) |
| Optimal soil depth | deep (>>150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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