If you enjoy cooking then add parsley to your culinary herb
garden. Grow parsley indoors or outdoors
in containers or in herb gardens. Parsley deep green foliage looks great when grown in a garden next to
chives, or other flowering herbs. Curly
parsley is perfect for American dishes.
Italian parsley has a more robust flavor that is well suited for
Mediterranean recipes. No culinary herb garden is complete without
parsley. When the parsley is fully-grown
it is a pretty plant and easy to care for.
Here are some tips on how to grow the culinary herb parsley.
Things
you will need to plant parsley:
Parsley seeds or plants
Containers for indoor growing
Garden site for outdoor growing
Compost
Fertilizer formulated for herbs
Garden Gloves
Shovel
Garden hose with mister nozzle
Grass Clippings for mulch
Pencil with eraser
Where
to grow
If you reside in a region that has cooler, summers then grow
parsley outside. However if your area is
known for extreme heat with a heat index of 95 degrees then parsley should be
grown indoors. Set your culinary herb
garden next to a sunny kitchen window.
Select an outdoor parsley garden site that has abundant sun
and rich, well-drained soil. If your
summers are extremely hot then a site with partial shade in the peak heat of the day is
beneficial to your culinary herb garden.
Planting
For outdoor parsley gardens, sow seeds outdoors several
weeks before the last spring frost. Or
start your seeds indoors eight weeks before the last frost. Parsley will germinate in about a month and
is mature in approximately two months.
Loosen the soil to ten inches mix in four inches of compost;
work the compost into the soil. Also,
add a time released fertilizer formulated for herbs, into the soil and mix well.
Plant parsley seeds in starter kit by digging a hole with a
pencil. Use the eraser end to dig a hole that is one half inch deep. Set the seed in the center of the hole and
cover with soil. Plant the seeds ten
inches apart.
Water your culinary parsley herb garden with a garden hose
with nozzle set at mist. Lightly cover
the herb bed with grass clippings. Water
the herbs frequently and Keep the soil moist but not wet.
When seedlings are six to eight inches tall, apply one inch
of grass clipping mulch around them. The
grass clippings will nourish your parsley and will help to retain
moisture.
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Tips:
- Water your parsley daily with slow drip irrigation.
- Harvest the parsley by cutting and not pulling or pinching off the stem
- Store the parsley leaves in an airtight bag or container in the refrigerator until you are ready to use.
- Fresh parsley leaves may be dried or frozen.
- Parsley is deer resistant however groundhogs will eat. Protect parsley by fencing in the garden. I used chicken wire attached to three foot posts and it stopped the groundhog from eating my Italian and curly parsley.
