For any up and coming young (or even young at heart) show person, my initial advice at first would be to forget about size and concentrate on growing high quality produce. Once you have grown quality specimens, you can then select them for the next most important element, the criteria �Uniformity” within a selected set, or �dish’ as they are often called in show terms.
Growing Parsnips
25th July 2007 I am often asked what is the best method of growing both long carrots and parsnips for the show