The Most Efficient Way to Grow Parsley

Parsley grows all year round! This beautiful umbellifer, an easy and rustic plant, has not only culinary qualities but also medicinal virtues. With parsley, you will never run out of vitamins or good mood!

You can grow flat-leaf parsley or curly parsley by starting it from seed indoors or by growing it in your garden or in a pot.

1 – VARIETIES OF FLAT AND CURLY PARSLEY

There is not a great diversity of varieties unlike other vegetable or aromatic species. Here are the most common:

• Common or simple, common 2, an old variety with flat, slightly indented foliage, vigorous growth.
• Giant from Italy, another variety with flat foliage, large development and very productive.
• Curly or Curly dark green, with strongly cut and curled foliage, of medium size.
• Viola, with strongly curled foliage, good development and good resistance to cold.
• Grüne Perle, with curly foliage, good resistance to cold.
• Green Forest, variety with curly foliage, well adapted to drought.

2 – PLANTING PARSLEY IN THE GARDEN

The parsley plants are installed in the garden at the end of April, once the last severe frosts have passed. If the plants come from your seedlings, you will generally plant them two or three months after sowing or earlier if they are well branched and reach a good ten centimeters.

When planting, respect a spacing of 25 cm between two plants or two clumps of a few plants.

As with sowing, planting is carried out in loosened and weeded soil. To plant your parsley plants:

• Dig a hole the size of the plant.
• Arrange your parsley plant.
• Fill the gaps with soil.
• Carry out a first watering.

3 – PLANTING PARSLEY IN POT

Growing parsley in a pot, on the balcony or on a windowsill is entirely possible. It’s even very practical to always have some on hand.

To plant parsley in a pot:

• Place a little gravel or clay balls at the bottom of a pot to facilitate drainage.
• Fill the pot with good potting soil.
• Loosen, if necessary, the roots of your plant.
• Adjust the rootball in its new container by supplementing with previously moistened potting soil.
• Water them and shade them from the sun with an upturned crate until the plants have fully recovered.

Please note: plants grown in pots need regular watering, the soil must always remain moist!

4 – WATERING AND FERTILIZING PARSLEY

Water the parsley plants at the base every week; consider watering more if it is very hot and dry. The soil around the feet must remain cool. Avoid soaking the leaves too much. A floor drip system is very effective.

5 – DISEASES AND PESTS THAT AFFECT PARSLEY

Parsley is resistant to most diseases. Slugs, on the other hand, are very fond of young parsley leaves, which we protect with Ferramol.

6 – WHEN TO PICK AND HOW TO CUT PARSLEY

Parsley harvesting can be done all year round as needed, which is particularly practical.

When harvesting, take a good look at your parsley and harvest it from everywhere, don’t cut a large part at once. By making a “strategic” cut like this you will allow your parsley to regenerate more quickly and therefore produce much more.