Reply To: Anyone else seeing very early climbing bean harvests this year?

[Dino]

Re parsnips, they were the first thing I sowed into my new no-dig bed at the end of March, but while everything else thrived nothing happened with the parsnips. Only eight weeks later did they eventually emerge and now look like giving some reasonable roots. Not sure what caused the delay in germination but that’s the longest I’ve ever had to wait for them to show up. Good job I was too lazy to put something else in! My first sowing of lettuce was also slow to emerge and was caught up by my second sowing a couple of weeks later. Maybe my compost was cold from sitting on a shady north facing concrete pad and took a while to warm up.