[skywalker]

I'm sorry to sound like Im bragging  but I feel like I need to shout this from the rooftops. No chitting seeds, no fancy paper pots (but i did consider this seriously as I have consistantly failed to germinate parsnips in the past). I threw 3 year old seeds into the ground and almost all of them have come up!
There is definately an element of luck involved with this growing business 
I am now the proud owner of around 100 8 milimetre  tall parsnips. Go ahead slugs - make my day!

[viettaclark]

Well done!!
I did the same....just being willful and disregarding advice....chucked in old seed in freezing weather and I've got lotsa babies!!!
Won't need the back-up packet.....

[Elaine G]

Chitted mine ages ago on kitchen paper and decided to put them straight into the ground in a line of compost.
Not a sausage

Elaine

[diggerjoe]

first time sowed direct and ok there are gaps but enough through to make it a resonable crop - just wish now I'd put them somewhere else as I thought they would fail as before

[Jonajo]

throwing 4-5 seeds into each shallow holes along the rows, at least one is highly likely to germinate surely? Well that's my method which has for me been 100% fool proof. SOmetimes if I doubt things I might throw in even mroe seeds per hole...and the thinning out is not a chore.

ACtually, sometimes I have transplated some of the thinnings elsewhere with success.

But a curious vegetable to crow.

[viettaclark]

Certainly curious if it acts like a rooster at sun-up!!!

[Sideways]

Most of mine came through on the plot, the odd gap got filled in with the ones I had grown in paper pots.

Im glad I had the back-up, my parsnip rows are full and looking rather smart. 

Of the x30 paper pots I made, x26 germinated. I used around twenty to fill in the gaps, did this two weeks ago and all have taken and are growing on as normal.

[Sideways]

Forgot to add- I chuffing love parsnips!!!!