A new, British-bred and as yet unnamed parsnip offered exclusively for the 2017 season by D.T. Brown has already caused quite a stir among members of the National Vegetable Society (NVS).

The mail order kitchen garden seedsman included a trial packet of parsnip TZ9045 F1 in an issue of the NVS's Simply Veg magazine to gauge members' opinions.

Feedback from these keen vegetable growers has been most encouraging, D.T. Brown reports, and it offers all gardeners a chance to grow TZ9045 F1, as it is featured in the newly published Fruit and Vegetable Grower's Seed and Plant Catalogue 2017.

The variety is already making its mark on the showbenches. NVS members really appreciate its clean, white skin. One grower reported to D.T. Brown at the Malvern Autumn Show 2016 he had been able to enter the same parsnip root into two different shows, two weeks apart, which is virtually unheard of in the world of exhibiting vegetables. Leading parsnip exhibitor Jim Pearson regards TZ9045 as "a remarkable and outstanding new variety for the showbench."

Parsnip TZ9045 F1 is also an excellent culinary variety, so will appeal to those who grow for the kitchen rather than for the showbench. The shallow-crowned, canker-resistant roots are harvestable for up to six months, being, long, plump and with a lovely sweet flavour. A packet of 200 seeds costs £1.79.

To request a copy of the new Fruit and Vegetable Grower's Seed and Plant Catalogue 2017, write to D.T. Brown Seeds, Bury Road, Newmarket CB8 7PQ, telephone 0845 371 05 32, or go online dtbrownseeds.co.uk