[fatbelly]

Hi All,
I sowed my PSB seeds about 10 days ago and have had Zero germination.
It is last years seed, is PSB seed like Parsnips and you need to use fresh seed?

Any comments or advice will be gratefully received.

[DD.]

I'm using PSB seed which is probably 6-7 years old.

Where are you germinating them?

I sowed some brassicas in modules outdoors recently and they were through in 5 days.

[fatbelly]

In 3 inch pots outside, 2 seeds to a pot. The pots have been outside throughout & I kept them in the shade in that spell of hot weather last week.

[DD.]

Sounds a bit like duff seed, but they should keep for ages!

[fatbelly]

Okay, thanks for the answer. I will resow them all.

[fatbelly]

10 of the blasted things have actually popped up this afternoon 
I have sown 20 more seeds though and will use them if needed.

It has taken about 10 days for them to pop up.

[barley]

scuse my ignorance but what is PSB ?   I've heard it mentioned several times on here

[AnneB]

scuse my ignorance but what is PSB ?   I've heard it mentioned several times on here

Purple Sprouting Broccoli.  It's easier to type and to say PSB!

[barley]

so obvious !!!!  ( embarresed face )

[fatbelly]

As an addendum to my original post .

I eventually had about 95% germination success rate, they took an age to come up and in between them coming up I re sowed another batch so now I have about 50 PSB seedlings to cope with 

[mumofstig]

Yes, sometimes patience is the missing germination factor  ...........been there, done that