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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: aquilegia on March 01, 2004, 10:20:27
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what temperature do leeks and parsnips need to germinate?
I had them on my calendar to sow this week, but I've a feeling it'll probably be too cold! ;)
Is there a good website that lists germination temperatures? I need to get more scientific with my slapdash gardening!
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Parsnips take forever to germinate anyway. If the packet says now is the time, you can trust it.
I grew parsnips for the first time last year, and the seeds went in in April (about 1 week after we got our allotment!) and didn't see anything until about June. They then grew at a fair old pace.
We still have about 10-12 left. Thought we had missed about 3-4 when the foliage died off around Christmas, but new shoots were spotted a couple of weeks ago. Dug these up, and boy do they taste good!
:-* Tricia
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There are quite a number of germination temperatures on my website...........too many to name here so call into;
(http://www.honleyvillage.co.uk/images/Community/GardenClub/bYkYhw.gif)
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Just time to get this in before we go off the air? Hence the poor focus - sorry!
OK - who said PARSNIPS?
(http://home.hpphoto.com/servlet/LinkPhoto?GUID=4df75480-4c35-4e03-55f0-7ca342eb566e&size=lg)
= Tim
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Was it Hugh, who came up with ". . . but the second mouse gets the cheese?"
I've found parsnips sown according to the packet and the books to be very patchy - poor germination, and I haven't tried leeks this early.
Sowing just a bit later, once the soil's a bit warmer? Gut feeling that later sowings romp away, and soon catch up with early sowings, which have had a couple of frost checks?
No science in there whatsoever - just bone idleness, and a liking for a warm fire!
Idle, but warm - Gavin
Ebagum - forgot the "Yorkshire bare-arse" test; if you can bare your bum and sit on the soil, it's warm enough to sow. Pity, though - you also get locked up!
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There are quite a number of germination temperatures on my website...........too many to name here so call into;
(http://www.honleyvillage.co.uk/images/Community/GardenClub/bYkYhw.gif)
Will you give the address again Gardener, so I can put it in my favorites, please?
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Ebagum - forgot the "Yorkshire bare-arse" test; if you can bare your bum and sit on the soil, it's warm enough to sow. Pity, though - you also get locked up!
;D ;D ;D Definitely not at the moment. It'd get frosty!
I shall just have to learn to be more patient.
Tim - mmmm - parsnip crisps. they look so yummy!
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I sowed leeks outside in a coldframe on the 9th feb germination started on the 15th,although with the extreme cold this past week,growth seems to have come to a stop they still look quite healthy.
Parsnips were sown the same way in peat pots on the 18th,nothing yet,but as has been said before even in the warmth they take a while.
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Click on the little world disc under my logo and this should take you to my website.
Failing that it is at;
http://www. thegardenersalmanac.co.uk
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Thanks Gardener.