It is all your fault, Jim! I can't reach my window sill or see outside any more! My sills are filled with trays of seeds in tissue and potted on seedlings, and my tiny yard (I have just patio slabs and gravel) is cluttered with pots and buckets just waiting for them all. Your methods worked so well that I'll have plenty for me, and the local charity shops will get a few pots of spares to sell. I so love the way you work - methodical and respectul of the plants and the soil. Thanks for all the tips and love to the dogs. Cheers!
That last one was quite a surprise! All the parsnips looked great. My favorite way to eat parsnip is to mash them up with carrots after boiling them together - add a bit of butter, salt and black pepper, so good!
You've got this germination process down pat. Think I'm going to try a trick a friend of mine used many years ago, place seeds between two moist sponges on a saucer. Worked great for him and easy to do. Just keep the sponges moist. I thought I remembered you riddled and mixed your compost that goes down the hole. Great harvest Jim. 👍 Plant one, get 2 free! lol
Hi ..it was only yesterday that I set my parsnip seeds to germinate and was thinking about the next step when up popped your video...what timing !!..6 inches apart is the way I'll go after seeing your results ..thank you Jim
Hi Jim,great video again,I’ve germinated parsnips seeds with wet paper towel system 3 times and they germinate,transfer to tall plastic cups and every time they have died on me,either to wet,or to dry
@HGV Home Grown Veg hi Jim, couple of updates - my little project of the chit with an eye I found in the box of seed potatoes. I have just checked it and roots have reached the bottom of the yoghurt pot. No shoot through the compost yet, there is a proud area in the middle of the compost. It's interesting, just how much do potatoes want to grow? The other little project of homemade shields from slugs and snails - 🤞 seems to be working great, so far I have found them exploring around but unable to find their way underneath. I mulch my potato pots with straw so built the straw up around the base of the milk containers. I have 8 homemade slug /snail shields now. 😂
Interesting you pick them so young. I wait till the tops die back. I guess part of the frost on them grouping. Perhaps it is as they can stay in the ground all winter anyway. Dig up with a big fork no need of any trowel or soil removal! Certainly early shop parsnip are as good as tasteless. AH yes you can get then out at the right time. As I learnt from my father. You dig them all up about when the tops have died down, first light frost sort of time. Then dig a shallow trench. Place them tails up in the trench and fill in the trench leaving the end of the tail/root sticking out. Then it is pretty easy to lift one as you need it, all through the winter, snow or frost.
for some reason your last video about starting seeds as been deleted,,,,,,, seed germination (hit n miss affair) coir is not a good germination medium ok for water retention sorry about the type script,,,,, my computer as thrown a wobbler after i press the commentbutton ,i find letters missing words joind together ,,,,, so sorry for an mess i have caused Ed
Hello Edwin. We are on the same trajectory Edwin. My phone has gone bonkers. Random text and emojis flood the screen when I try to text. Four big grandsons all with phones so expect I will get the next 'hand me down'. Jim.
My guess would be that shortly they will start to throw up seed heads. From then on in they may start to go 'woody'. Give curry parsnip soup a go Dave, its delish. Jim.
I love root crops, parsnips, celeriac, rutabaga all the wonderful things that hide from us until we harvest.
It is all your fault, Jim! I can't reach my window sill or see outside any more! My sills are filled with trays of seeds in tissue and potted on seedlings, and my tiny yard (I have just patio slabs and gravel) is cluttered with pots and buckets just waiting for them all. Your methods worked so well that I'll have plenty for me, and the local charity shops will get a few pots of spares to sell. I so love the way you work - methodical and respectul of the plants and the soil. Thanks for all the tips and love to the dogs. Cheers!
Sorry. Posted the wrong video 1st time round. This is the one I should have posted. Jim.
That last one was quite a surprise! All the parsnips looked great. My favorite way to eat parsnip is to mash them up with carrots after boiling them together - add a bit of butter, salt and black pepper, so good!
I live in Australia...just north of Sydney. I have been wondering why I have had all these holes in the backyard suddenly appear. NOW I KNOW WHY!!!
An excellent video for the spring time! I am starting seeds in pots today.
You've got this germination process down pat. Think I'm going to try a trick a friend
of mine used many years ago, place seeds between two moist sponges on a saucer.
Worked great for him and easy to do. Just keep the sponges moist.
I thought I remembered you riddled and mixed your compost that goes down the
hole. Great harvest Jim. 👍 Plant one, get 2 free! lol
'Plant one get two free' That's a great line Mark, wish I had thought of it at the time. It would have been a good line to end the video on. Jim.
After watching that video I'm going to give parsnips a go thank you keep up the brilliant work
Hi ..it was only yesterday that I set my parsnip seeds to germinate and was thinking about the next step when up popped your video...what timing !!..6 inches apart is the way I'll go after seeing your results ..thank you Jim
Hi Jim,great video again,I’ve germinated parsnips seeds with wet paper towel system 3 times and they germinate,transfer to tall plastic cups and every time they have died on me,either to wet,or to dry
Once transplanted a light water spray will keep them going. Try to avoid direct hot sunlight. Jim.
Thanks for the video there big boys! 😂 I’ve just jermanted some carrots using your technique now I’m going to try the parsnips! Thanks matey! 👍
Thank you for the excellent information!
@HGV Home Grown Veg hi Jim, couple of updates - my little project of the chit with an eye I found in the box of seed potatoes. I have just checked it and roots have reached the bottom of the yoghurt pot. No shoot through the compost yet, there is a proud area in the middle of the compost. It's interesting, just how much do potatoes want to grow?
The other little project of homemade shields from slugs and snails - 🤞 seems to be working great, so far I have found them exploring around but unable to find their way underneath. I mulch my potato pots with straw so built the straw up around the base of the milk containers. I have 8 homemade slug /snail shields now. 😂
I'm going to try this today, thank you!
I germinate the same but start mine off in the cardboard that holds toilet roll, same with carrots and its been quite successful.
Interesting you pick them so young. I wait till the tops die back. I guess part of the frost on them grouping. Perhaps it is as they can stay in the ground all winter anyway. Dig up with a big fork no need of any trowel or soil removal! Certainly early shop parsnip are as good as tasteless.
AH yes you can get then out at the right time. As I learnt from my father. You dig them all up about when the tops have died down, first light frost sort of time. Then dig a shallow trench. Place them tails up in the trench and fill in the trench leaving the end of the tail/root sticking out. Then it is pretty easy to lift one as you need it, all through the winter, snow or frost.
Storing in the ground upside down sounds interesting. Jim.
This was a good one thx Jim!
for some reason your last video about starting seeds
as been deleted,,,,,,, seed germination (hit n miss affair)
coir is not a good germination medium ok for water retention
sorry about the type script,,,,, my computer as thrown a wobbler after i press the commentbutton ,i find letters missing words joind together ,,,,, so sorry for an mess i have caused
Ed
Hello Edwin. We are on the same trajectory Edwin. My phone has gone bonkers. Random text and emojis flood the screen when I try to text. Four big grandsons all with phones so expect I will get the next 'hand me down'. Jim.
hi jim how long can you leave parsnips in the grownd i did some last yea and there still going are the ok to eat ?????????????? plz reply
My guess would be that shortly they will start to throw up seed heads. From then on in they may start to go 'woody'. Give curry parsnip soup a go Dave, its delish. Jim.