Tuesday 11 August 2009

Harvesting Parsnip Seed

A bit of experiment this week.



In a corner of my plot I left a couple of parsnips to go to seed and forgot about them. It doesn't look tidy (see below). Now I notice that the seeds are dropping off so I reckon it's time to chop off the seedheads and collect them in a bag where the seeds can be rubbed off the stems without losing them.



collect the results in an envelope and pop them away somewhere safe and dry.



I wonder if they will be viable next March!

1 comment:

  1. they can't be any worse than my seeds that i bought..not one germinated this year!!

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