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Not sure what the lesson is here!
Volunteer parsnips have one more thing going for them - they are surface-sown.The downside is that there's a risk of it washing away in a wet year - so a few extra to thin out later is a good idea, and you will be doing this anyway if you aren't confident it's fresh.Cheers.
I had some parsnips self seed in autumn 2014. Left them as I thought they would be good for 2015. Big mistake, they ran to seed in May and when I got back from holiday the allotment was covered in six foot high plants. There were thousands of them.
Unfortunately they'd get wind dispersed far and wide here if I did that. Is there any merit surface sowing and covering with cloches to prevent wind dispersal? And what about carrot seeds, which I find much trickier to germinate? I wonder.