Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: gazza975526570 on April 22, 2011, 21:02
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So after three years of attempting to grow parsnips after seeing some germination for a week or so today i saw the delights of two lovely rows of parsnips growing!!!!
I sowed direct in the soil with new seed purchased just bvefore sowing.
Already i cant wait to get them in the over and drizzle some honey over
Have you had any joy this year?
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Success here, sown in paper pots and transplanted after germination, before roots were out of the bottom :)
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no! >:( Not yet, swn three weeks ago so hoping to see something soon, otherwise i am going to sulk for at least six weeks.
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Success here too!! (?)
4 paper-pots in a baking greenhouse and now 4 prasnips :happy:
So why on earth did I only do the 4? :blink: :unsure:
I know: "An experiment to see if the little ***'s would grow that way as they'd refused to on the plot for the last two years.
Busy making paper-pots tomorow if I have the time. (Fat chance :()
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So why on earth did I only do the 4? :blink: :unsure:
Im sure they will be the nicest 4 parsnips you have ever eaten! ;)
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Never have any trouble with snips germinating but I grow mine in containers started off in the greenhouse. 8)
I think many problems are caused by people sowing too early into the open ground when the soil is still too cold.
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I sowed mine in cardboard tubes and planted them out. Tried it this way for the first time as I always had poor germination sowing direct.
Now I`ve noticed two other plotholders who have sowed direct and they have a continuous line of touching seedlings. Around 90% will need to be thinned.
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no! >:( Not yet, swn three weeks ago so hoping to see something soon, otherwise i am going to sulk for at least six weeks.
I sowed 3 rows out on the 19th of March, and they took about 4 weeks to come up, but they are up now and starting to grow well.
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i sowed mine easily 3-4 weeks ago and now i can tell what is a weed or a parsnip. i keep looking but i am sure nothing has come up. :(
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Success here too - sowed ours in deep rooters and all have germinated :)
But I am starting to panic now.. I don't think we will have enough space to transplant them all in the veggie patch :(
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If you are a guest or member who for some reason has never read any thread other than this one then you will know that I NEVER chit seeds! ( :blush:)
My "fresh" parsnip seeds were sown directly into the soil just over 3 weeks ago and are coming up nicely now, although my nerves are shot to pieces as they are every year when it comes to parsnip germination! :)
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put a bout 20 in paper pots 3 weeks ago in greenhouse and nowt yet...might try some in the ground see what happens.
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Success here, sown in paper pots and transplanted after germination, before roots were out of the bottom :)
Me too, just the same. Have 50 plants coming along now :)
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Yep I got a row of directly sown seed come up in the last week or so, they took about 4 weeks. Not so much luck with carrots here though, I have ended up having to transplant them from a trough in the greenhouse after 5 attempts of direct sowing on plot!
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I've had my allotment for 3 years and i have grown my parsnips direct every time and had no problem with germination of parsnips . i sowed them about 5weeks ago and they are just showing their true leaves , in fact they are so prolific i have to thin them so much so i get a good size snip, now my neighbour lottie holder has struggled in all the3 years i've known them . i introduce manure to the bed a year before i use it for snips for other crops whether thats a contributing factor i don't know
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Sowed 4 x 10ft rows of 'snips on the plot about a month ago, just about given up on them & sowed a load more in pots, but when at the plot today, there were the originals, just about all present & correct :lol:
Two rows of early carrots also now showing after about 3 weeks.
But our biggest surprise was the brassicas - my lad sowed 2 trays each of cabbage, brussels, & cauli last Sunday. The cabbage had virtually a 100% showing by Wednesday (just 3 days), the brussels the following day (just 4 days), and several of the caulis are up today (5 days). Quick, or what? :wacko:
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Carrots are a doddle.......... Parsnips sown direct :tongue2:
Paper-pots for me......making them in my sleep I am! ::)
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Planted some direct in soil and can't tell what's weed now! Don't think anything has germinated after 4 weeks.
Then sowed in a propagator and nothing!
Now trying on kitchen towels by the window sill first.
It's my first year of growing, didn't know they'd be so blimmin hard! :)
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i also cant tell weed from parsnip sowed three weeks ago any body have a photo would be good ,i have just started growing again after thirty years and its not like riding a bike lol.
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Its good to know that I'm not alone sitting staring at my parsnip patch wondering where I went wrong.
Patience is a virtue - especially when it comes to parsnips!!
I need to find a good book to while away the days waiting :)
Regards, WG
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I think many problems are caused by people sowing too early into the open ground when the soil is still too cold.
That's what I've heard recently, some people say sow in Feb, but the soil is still too cold and wet then I sowed mine a few weeks ago with radish in between and they are coming along nicely
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That's a good idea, putting a radish in between.
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I have stopped sowing radish as a marker because they germinated and grew so much faster than the parsnips they swamped the poor things (and then they got disturbed when I pulled the radishes out!)
My parsnip seedlings are still at the seed-leaf stage and look like many other seedlings at the moment (but weeds don't grow in straight lines!)
Will post a pic when they get their first true leaves.
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I did mine in the polytunnel in cardboard tubes about 2 weeks ago.
Nothing showing yet but am still hopeful (although I did use still in date but old seed so it will serve me right if nothing happens)
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No luck here is it to late to pot some more in tubes?
Bill
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How long have they been sown and was it indoors or outdoors? (in either case my "parsnip panic-ometer" stays on standby for 3 weeks after sowing!) :)
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No luck here is it to late to pot some more in tubes?
Bill
Now that I have 4 lovely little plants germinated in paper-pots in my fathers very warm unheated greenhouse I'm going to get some more in tomorrow.
Too late? Nope.... in they go. ;)
(When I find where I put the seeds!!!)
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I sowed parsnips direct in early march and they are up about 70% so I'm chuffed,cause I have never had any sucsess in previous years. :) :)
I'm sowing more this wkend too. :)