FREE: 20 Ukrainian / Russian White Parsnip "Petrik" Seeds - Very Cold Tolerant

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I grew the original parsnip seed I had, saved about 5 roots, & replanted them in 2015.

1 root I missed digging up, it over wintered fine outside covered with a clear storage tote. Upside down CLEAR storage totes, make great mini greenhouses for plants.

Anyway, all 5-6 plants survived, & put up seed stalks, so I got 100s of seeds in 2015, that need to be planted in 2016, this year.

Parsnips are BIENNIALS. This means that they put out roots & foliage the 1st year, & seeds in a 2nd year of growth.

So if you like to grow parsnips every year, always leave 2-4 roots in the ground, to overwinter, to provide fresh seed for the next year.

PARSNIP SEEDS, ARE ONLY VIABLE FOR ONE YEAR, SO THEY MUST BE PLANTED THE YEAR AFTER HARVEST, TO BE VIABLE.

I'm not going to plant 100s of parsnips this year, so some of the seed I saved, needs to go elsewhere, & be grown out THIS year, in order to not be wasted.

These are VERY cold tolerant!

I harvested some seed, in the fall, had the seed in a cup, but got distracted, & forgot about the cup of seed.

Then it rained. I discovered the cup of parsnip seeds swimming in water. A bit bummed out, I dumped them in a vacant raised bed about 2 months before the 1st frost.

To my amazement, tiny seedlings sprouted!

I was bummed again, because I figured the winter would kill these young seedlings. But I put an old fish tank with a hole in the bottom, over a cluster of seedlings, & some clear plastic tubs over as many of the other seedlings as I could, & left them to their fates.

In February, a 40 degree day came, so I went to check on them.

Too my surprise, the SEEDLINGS were still alive, still with cotyledons & only about 2 true leaves!

It has snowed again, since then.

When it's 40 degrees again, I will go check them again.

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These are a standard, tapered, white root.