[sunshineband]

To try to avoid thinning parsnips I station sowed them very carefully.

Didn't realise that I would have a huge huge crop of fat hen come up across the whole bed and it is really hard to spot the single seedlings amongst them 

Won't do that again 

[mumofstig]

nature is just not fair 

[sunshineband]

Even though they are a different colour green, they come up much much slower -- got twelve so far 

[Kristen]

Just musing that chitting parsnip seed on kitchen paper is a fag; making newspaper pots is a fag; pricking out the seedlings with tweezers is a fag; planting out is a fag ...

... but it always strikes me as worthwhile when I have a nice, evenly spaced, weed-free, row of Parsnips plus I didn't have to rush to get my only-good-for-making-bricks clay soil ready early in the year

[sunshineband]

I've just put some seed onto damp kitchen paper to germinate as I reckon that they have been in the soil long enough for any to come up that are going to. the ones at school are absolutely fine 
 
Then (I hope) to be getting those tweezers out