Uploaded March 2017 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Disclaimer: I had no idea what I was doing but having watched quite a few videos, especially Robotic Allotment Gardener, Home Grown Veg and Allotment Diary I decided to have a go a chitting some parsnip seeds. Given the total lack of success I had with onion seeds and basil seeds this year I wasn't hopeful! So I had nothing prepared in the way of soil for them. And of course about fifty of them chitted!!!
The main advantage of chitting is you get to give the seed a head start and you can see what seeds are viable before planting on as parsnips are supposed to be notoriously slow at germinating. You want to catch them when the tap root is showing about 1mm. That way you reduce the likelihood of damaging the tap root when you transplant out. As they're a root crop they apparently don't like this whole transplanting business anyhow. But it was interesting to see them germinate this way.
Now I just need to find somewhere to put them - and quickly!!!
Thanks for watching.
Disclaimer: I had no idea what I was doing but having watched quite a few videos, especially Robotic Allotment Gardener, Home Grown Veg and Allotment Diary I decided to have a go a chitting some parsnip seeds. Given the total lack of success I had with onion seeds and basil seeds this year I wasn't hopeful! So I had nothing prepared in the way of soil for them. And of course about fifty of them chitted!!!
The main advantage of chitting is you get to give the seed a head start and you can see what seeds are viable before planting on as parsnips are supposed to be notoriously slow at germinating. You want to catch them when the tap root is showing about 1mm. That way you reduce the likelihood of damaging the tap root when you transplant out. As they're a root crop they apparently don't like this whole transplanting business anyhow. But it was interesting to see them germinate this way.
Now I just need to find somewhere to put them - and quickly!!!
Thanks for watching.
