12 rounds with a Parsnip!

Harvesting my first parsnip a couple of weeks ago was a bit (well a lot) of a struggle. I was huffing and puffing, trying to dig round it with a trowel without damaging the neighbouring roots and using sheer brute force. It did not want to budge.

I did have images of a cartoon-type end to the fight where I pull it out of the ground and fall flat on my backside... the time it took, I would have settled for that.

When it finally came out of the ground I still didn't manage to get it out in one piece; the tip remained it the soil.

I really, really enjoyed eating it I can tell you.