Thanks 1905 - and noted about the watering. Reading further online about NOT transplanting parsnips, I reckon a 25% chance with these. Ah well, we'll see!
I've struggled with parsnip germination in the past. It's the only veg I sow that I'll make a point of getting fresh seed each year. I usually do two methods of sowing - firstly direct in drills with a thick sprinkling of seeds (you usually get several hundred in a packet) which I'll thin out if they germinate in clumps by cutting off the unwanted ones rather than pulling them up, so the roots of the remaining parsnips aren't disturbed. The other method I tried for the first time this year with some success is germinating in a tub with a lid on damp kitchen towel. You can then plant any seeds you can see starting to germinate.
I'm liking the damp kitchen towel method addix, that never crossed my mind / have never heard of doing that for parsnips. How many that went into the ground then continued to grow?
New plant for me a couple of weeks ago here at the front of the photo... ...it's a Trevesia burckii aka Burck's Trevesia or a Ghost's Foot.
Actually an indoor plant, but I've some success in using house plants outside over the summer.
Bit of a bargain, as it was £15 in the hospital wing at the garden centre but is being sold online for as much as £130 for this size. Not a chance I'd pay that for a plant that could be dead in a couple of weeks!
Thanks 1905 - and noted about the watering. Reading further online about NOT transplanting parsnips, I reckon a 25% chance with these. Ah well, we'll see!
I've struggled with parsnip germination in the past. It's the only veg I sow that I'll make a point of getting fresh seed each year. I usually do two methods of sowing - firstly direct in drills with a thick sprinkling of seeds (you usually get several hundred in a packet) which I'll thin out if they germinate in clumps by cutting off the unwanted ones rather than pulling them up, so the roots of the remaining parsnips aren't disturbed. The other method I tried for the first time this year with some success is germinating in a tub with a lid on damp kitchen towel. You can then plant any seeds you can see starting to germinate.
I'm liking the damp kitchen towel method addix, that never crossed my mind / have never heard of doing that for parsnips. How many that went into the ground then continued to grow?
Probably a good 50% which has potentially given me my best results ever. The proof will be when it comes time to pull them up. I found so many of them were germinating on the towel I had to make more space for parsnips in the beds as I couldn't just discard them after they'd gone to the effort of germinating! I just left the tub in the greenhouse so it was warm and checked it every few days.
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...it's a Trevesia burckii aka Burck's Trevesia or a Ghost's Foot.
Actually an indoor plant, but I've some success in using house plants outside over the summer.
Bit of a bargain, as it was £15 in the hospital wing at the garden centre but is being sold online for as much as £130 for this size. Not a chance I'd pay that for a plant that could be dead in a couple of weeks!
Probably a good 50% which has potentially given me my best results ever. The proof will be when it comes time to pull them up. I found so many of them were germinating on the towel I had to make more space for parsnips in the beds as I couldn't just discard them after they'd gone to the effort of germinating! I just left the tub in the greenhouse so it was warm and checked it every few days.