chitting parsnips

Having officially given up on my plans to grow parsnips in toilet roll tubes due to birds, probably jackdaws, ripping them out of the ground again, the parsnip experiments continue, and this time I have chitted them.

I placed them in kitchen towel, kept the paper wet, and folded over the seeds and in a tray to hold the moisture, and kept the lot in the propagator.  Definitely a lot less hassle than all that tube planting, and takes up a lot less valuable propagator space too.  Also you can see which seeds have germinated.

Then out in the veg patch, made a little hole in the ground, picked out a good looking seed with tweezers, popped it in, covered it up, and repeat.

Will it work?  Time will tell.