This morning the soil temp was back up to around 94 in the turnip row sown two days ago. I've read about putting boards over seed rows to keep them damp until germination. Not having any wide boards I decided to play with wet newspaper this morning. I watered the row again and then covered it with wet newspaper sections and will leave it on there for two days to see if that will cool things down enough for germination.
We'll see. I'll have to water again tonight.
It's something I've never tried but turnip seed is cheap at the feed 'n weed. There's still enough left to plant the county. It's amazing how much 90 cents will buy.