boilling water on parsley?

[marialittlebzz]

I heard that parsley seeds need to be water "hot", aka boiling water on them to get them germinated
did anyone try?
cause my seeds are in the ground since a month now, and even if parsley seed take their time...I feel like pouring boiling water all over!

[lottie dolly]

i have just pricked out some flat leafed parsley,i sowed in a little pot in an unheated green house inside a propagator just until they start to show,i to was about to give it up,when the little monkeys decided to show,it was well over a month,

[PAULW]

The boiling water trick does work, put your seed in a little dish/bowl pour on boiling water when cool sow.

[Flummery]

They used to say (I'm and Old Wife, see!) that you should water the seed drill with boiling water. I never bothered and I always got decent germination. I never found it particularly fussy.

[fiveravens]

Lottie Dolly's way is the best, I think. I sow the seeds every year in February in the cold greenhouse. Barely cover the seed, and when the seedlings are big enough to handle, prick them out into small pots or modules. Harden them off - they don't need much hardening - and plant them out. They're dead easy.

[ClayGarden]

I got excellent germination about 3 weeks ago with out doing this. On the window sill.

[marialittlebzz]

ok I think I'll wait a bit more...

[janduncan]

I heard the boiling water advice when I started gardening in the seventies - unfortunately I don't know where. I used boiling water in March (08) and germination occurred almost as quickly as for other seeds I'd sown e.g. sage etc. But reading about other people's success without boiling water I realise I've only proved that the variety I'm using isn't destroyed by boiling water ...