This is probably not relevant , but interesting. I live in Bideford, and the
shops are built on what was farmland,
someone knocked a shop down and the, whole , very large area grew in the
summer into a mass , thousands of poppies,
they traced it back to a poppy field, that was there 100 years ago,
the seeds lay dormant for that time ,
Gea


"Tim Lund" wrote in message
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I was thinking of clearing out some old seeds, but wondered if it wasn't
worth just giving them a last chance to sprout in some compost in my
(unheated) green house. Questions:

What chance have two year old parsnips and leeks of sprouting?

Is there a size above which it becomes infeasible to transplant parsnip
seedlings? (I once read that you shouldn't be able to transplant root
vergetable seedlings, but I managed okay this year with swedes and
beetroot)

Will seeds planted this early 'get ahead of themselves' and tend to go to
seed?

Tim Lund, SE London, clay based soil