Reply To: How to grow nice Parsnips and not ugly octopus looking

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My plot situation is different, as it appears you have hard paths(?) I have killed the grass paths with cardboard and coarse woodchip, to be renewed as needed, building it higher. Some areas have plastic ‘linkaboard’ edgeing which I have now lifted .The increasing height should aid drainage, on what is a poor draining clay of the London Clay strata. Elsewhere, the paths are below the tapered bed level, with no appreciable edge at all.