[gremlin]

I am now really nervous about breaking off the shoots when I go to plant - eek! 

Don't be nervous. Just allow about 10 minutes to sow each seed.  Take tweezers and one of those eyeglass magnifying things that jewelers use and gently, gently, lay the seed on a bed of finely sieved compost.  Gently sieve some compost on it using a fine sieve.

Then after an hour:- chuck the whole *****  lot in the bin, and put a pinch of new seed from the packet every 8 inches like DD says.

[JayG]

I am now really nervous about breaking off the shoots when I go to plant - eek! 

I only set mine on kitchen paper a few days ago so I might have another 3 days to wait ( !) but I'm planning on trying to float them off in a bowl of water when they do - I'll let you know just how cunning a plan that turns out to be! 

[DD.]

the year before that I did Richy's paper pots and got a stonking crop - but I wanted this year to try the damp kitchen towel prechitting

If it wasn't broke, why did you want to try and fix it? 

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

I transplanted about 15 richy potted parsnips at the weekend and 4 of them have been eaten by something already!!

Why do we bother!!?!!

[plum crumble]

If it wasn't broke, why did you want to try and fix it? 

  cos I  is a gardener...  and a fool.... 

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