Carrots, Parsnips and Onions

Hi All,

Lovely day so you are probably all outside and I don't blame you.

I planted some Carrots (Autumn King) and Parsnips (I forget..) on 15th April, since then we've had a couple of weeks of average weather, a wet week and now for the last 7 days or so it's been nice and sunny. But nothing seems to be appearing in the rows where I planted, I've got some weed seedlings and grass that seems to be doing okay!! but no sign of the carrots or Parnsips (bar maybe one or two).

I know patience is needed but how much longer should I give them? The packets say 10-21 days for carrots and 10-28 days for parsnips.

Being new to this I'm worried I could have set them to deep and they aren't going to show, I did try for 1/2 inch.

Also my Onions are going well buit the stems and leaves appear to be bending over, do I need to earth up to keep the leaves upright?

Thanks in advance

OB

Carrots and parsnips can take ages to germinate.

If your soil is dry then I'd give it a watering along the rows and see if that helps.

I did parsnips last year and they took ages to germinate but was well woth the wait - they were meant to be a dwarf variety but with all the wet weather I pulled one the weighed 3lbs!!!.  
My carrots this year were in for a couple of weeks before they germinated and it was literally not there one day there the next.   I've just sown the third row so hopefully I'll get a long harvesting period too.  They are one of my favourite veg.