A handy little trick

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I’m a keen gardener and have been tending my own garden and growing vegetables for quite some years now. But there is always something new to learn. I picked up a handy little tip the other day from one of my favourite YouTube gardeners (Huw Richards). I like to grow parsnips but the seeds take ages to germinate, and in the meantime it’s easy to forget where they are and maybe walk there or accidentally plant something else. But he suggested sprinkling radish seeds along the same row. Small round radish are shallow rooted and fast growing, so they mark the row and you also get a quick ‘catch-crop’ from the same site while the parsnips are just getting started. I decided to give it a go and this is the result today - so far so good! Radish like plenty of moisture and we are certainly getting that at the moment, so I hope I will get a crop of crisp tasty radish soon and parsnips in due course. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.