has anyone sown parsnips or carrots in loo rolls?

[Kaiya]

Are those of us who don't have luck with loo rolls watering too much or packing too little? I tried beans or tomatoes in them once but some fell apart, and when I moved the rest all the soil fell out of the bottom.

[j r hilton]

I start my snips on damp kitchen roll paper in a plastic container in the airing cupboard. When germinated I put one seed in a paper roll and when the first leaves appear I plant the complete roll in the ground. This way no spaces in the bed and because the compost in the roll has been sifted and is fine get no forking. Get good crops every year. May be more work than direct planting but it works fine for me.

[Two_Sheds]

I did it in 2008: http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...seedlings.html

but now I sow direct into a damp drill, and cover with MPC (to prevent capping)

[bazzaboy]

I sow direct into a damp drill, and cover with MPC (to prevent capping)

MPC? (Grapevine Search doesn't permit searching of 3 letters...) So Google:

MPC:

The Moving Picture Company is a world leading post production facility creating high-end digital visual effects, computer animation and integrated digital

Monetary Policy Committee - Bank of England | Monetary Policy ...sets an interest rate it judges will enable the inflation target to be met.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema - Video Player Based on the original Media Player Classic and created after the original author stopped working on it. Includes new features and video decoders.


Music Production Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 
An AKAI MPC2000 sampler.

MPC Series


Can't decide which MPC is right for you? Check out our MPC Buyer's Guide to help you decide.

MPC



mpc.multiprecision Mpc is a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with arbitrarily high precision and correct rounding of the result.

Musepack



www.musepack.net/
It's not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you won't be able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file.

Media Player Classic - Download.com



download.cnet.com/Media-Player-Classic. Small size, low memory footprint, and numerous features.....

One of those helps your parsnips but I'm not sure which.....

Capping.....?

[Scarlet]

How about 'multi purpose compost'

[oldie]

MPC = Multi purpose Compost, Capping happens when my clay soil gets too dry and sets solid so seedlings can't push through.

[bazzaboy]

How about 'multi purpose compost'

MPC = Multi purpose Compost, Capping happens when my clay soil gets too dry and sets solid so seedlings can't push through.

lol.... aha that too, thank you, Google doesn't mention those. I'll put the media player back in its box, thought music might help....

[stella]

I tried the loo roll method last year and found it tooooo messy. The rolls disintergrate as you move them and the soil all drops outall over the place so my roots gots loads of disturbence as I tried to stuff it all back at the same time as planting it deep enough in the hole to work. I needed a holiday after doing a dozen. Then only 2 took anyway the rest packed their bags and left

[Bren In Pots]

Next door have given me 100 loo roll tubes this afternoon

[binley100]

Parsnips I use a bulb planter to remove some soil then fill with compost and station sow into that (lots of stones) ......Carrots I sow direct ....
loo rolls ....I put mine in one of those deep plastic trays that you get mushrooms and suchlike in , can jam about 9 in one which keeps them upright ....useful for sowing beans, sweetcorn and pricking out cabbages etc like RL says make sure you bury the cardboard when you plant them out ....also use them cut in half for beetroot (anything that doesn't like root disturbance. )