[dye29]

hi all someone gave me some self germinating parsnip seeds is this such a thing as he said there garennteed to grow if so where can i buy these seeds from for other veg thanks

[mumofstig]

Self-germinating? Never heard of that  no seed can be guaranteed to germinate - so don't understand what you've been told.

[snowdrops]

All seeds germinate by themselves really,given the optimum conditions,warmth, moisture etc. If they were truly self germinating they'd have done it in the packet. I should go back & ask him to explain

[gobs]

There's: self pollinating, self-fertile, self seeding.

Probably the latter was meant, as parsnip, as an umbellifer,  commonly self-seeds.  This might have even happened to some plants in this warm spring spell, we got earlier in the year. And it is said, that you need very fresh seed for parsnip to germinate. This could perhaps be, what he was on about.

Self-germinating there just isn't. Maybe, this word could be applied to seeds that germinate inside their fruit, like tomato seed sometimes does.