[digga666]

I planted 3 raised prepared beds for my Parsnips and in each bed i lined with potting compost and then planted my seeds.

After 3 weeks i have just one showing ....Should i write the lot off being as they have failed to show??

Lovely warm weather....no cold and plenty of water......what did i do wrong :blink:

[Waynestrout]

Don't give up yet, my parsnips took an age to come through this year. All big and strong now.

If you get desperate have a look just at just one, bet you'll find they've germinated and that the growth is just under the soil.

What I did was to pop a few into pots at home, a couple of mine didn't come through so I was able to fill gaps with these. I learnt this year then you can transplant too, so a few of the extras that i thinned out got put elsewhere in a bit of space and a realso growing strong

Have faith

W

[digga666]

Hi Wayne thanks mate......your idea.........infact what i intended to do was to plant them inside wste pipe filled with compost then transplant them when big enough.......but well things.....you know the story

[Paul Plots]

Blinking parsnips  The one year I managed to get a really full row my sister decided to help weed.... and then there were about 3 left!! 

Siince then my sister hasn't helped (she only rarely visits the plot thankfully) and the parsnips have never risked lifting their heads above the soil.  :blink:

Am I too late to try yet again with a fresh sowing??

[peapod]

Have a look at this thread

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=38964.15

There is a variety snip that can be planted in June...not sure of the name, T&M will probably have it on their website.  I know it isnt in Wilkos because I looked yesterday

[Paul Plots]

Thanks for info re late parsnippers.... I'll give it a go. 

[sloworm]

I only had 3 parsnips show from 2 rows of seeds  but hey ho 3 less to buy!

[Yorkie]

I only had 3 parsnips show from 2 rows of seeds  but hey ho 3 less to buy!

I like your approach sloworm    I have 7 parsnips from 2 rows so can empathise

[Paul Plots]

I only had 3 parsnips show from 2 rows of seeds  but hey ho 3 less to buy!

On the bright side = less to weed too!!  

[Yorkie]

But so much easier to aim at the individual plants with the hoe when weeding, I find 

[Carrie3]

I only had 3 that germinated - but I can't bring myself to pull them up 'cos they look so lovely!! - I may have to sow something around them!

Lady on our site has hundreds - well maybe a couple of dozen!!  When I asked her what she had done, she had done the same as me!!  Ah well!! 

Carrie xx

[Lady Lottie]

Not meaning to brag.....(cos I haven't got a scooby what I'm doing just yet...! ) but LOADS of my parsnip seeds sprouted!  I thinned them out at the weekend (way overdue as well - they are about 6" tall some of them!) and experimented with replanting the seedlings I had thinned - they looked so robust and healthy it seemed a shame to dump them!  Most of them look doomed but about half a dozen have perked right back up - I was amazed frankly.  Hope they continue to be as healthy for the duration!   Just hope I haven't got one of those "lots of foliage at the expense of root" type situations going on as I have no idea how they are supposed to look at this stage. :blink:

[Kristen]

There is a variety snip that can be planted in June...not sure of the name, T&M will probably have it on their website. 

All T&M Parsnips seem to say sowing "April to June" - which seems a bit ambitious for the regular varieties to my mind?

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/seeds1/group/parsnip.html

[peapod]

Does seem ambitous for every snip Kristen

I found these (mid June) on Dobies, but havent had a furkle on other websites yet
parsnip seeds

[Kristen]

Now I feel stupid

Based on your earlier "There is a variety snip that can be planted in June" I was searching for a Parsnip variety called "Snip".  Twit-or-1/2wit-or-what?!!

Mind you, I think it would be a good name