parsley

[captainhastings]

Any tips on growing parsley ? I see a few plots every year with a nice row of lush green parsley. Every year I sow it and that is the extent of it
Not sure if it gets eaten or never germinates or what

[Chippy Minton]

Where do you sow it? Direct? I sow mine indoors in a seed tray, takes forever to germinate, then suddenly there' loads of it. Prick it out into cells and a few pots for the winter until I get bored, then plant out when established. It is said to dislike root disturbance but never seemed to have a problem, maybe some bolts, maybe not, I usually end up with so much it doesn't matter.

[DannyK]

Just got a pot of parsley from Lidl for 75p. Will repot some plants into 9cm pots and plant out when they've grown on.
It's worked before. Seeds haven't.
I lose count of the plants there are in a pot.

[Bren In Pots]

I sow mine in newspaper pots that are planted out when they're a decent size into troughs. The spares get pushed anywhere in the beds they seem to selfseed every now and then so I'm careful with the weeding.

[Deltawhiskey]

There is an old saying that parsley grows best for a hen-pecked husband. Mine grows quite well!

David

[Jimmy]

I start mine in the multi cell seed tray inserts in the Greenhouse.
I have plain and curly, a tray of each.
Germination is always very slow but they appear eventually.
I then make a mix of home made compost , horse muck and shop bought compost.
Use the Morrisons type large flow tubs and put three in each.
Seems to work OK
Jimmy

[roitelet]

Parsley needs rapid change of temperature to germinate. Try watering with hot water now and again until you see signs of life.

[Jungle Jane]

I sow about 20 seeds in a 3 inch pot indoors east facing windowsill they don't need much sun at all. Then I leave them there,I think I had about 4 pots last year & fed them a high nitrogen fertiliser about once a month because they were in the pots for ages,but you could plant them outside if you harden them off,I wouldn't separate them into separate seedlings just plant the pots worth out.

[bario1]

As above, really - sow quite thick in a small tray, and leave in the greenhouse for a month. I grow 'Gigante' from Franchi and it's amazing. Once the seedlings have a couple of true leaves, prick out into 6" pots, about 10 per pot (fiddly), and leave them to establish. They like plenty of water. Once they're bigger I just plant the whole pots in the polytunnel border, and they'll go beserk and give us all the parsley we can eat through summer and winter until they flower (about now). The taste, texture and colour makes the supermarket stuff seem like old straw.

[Finley]

I sowed some flat leaf direct and also divvied up a supermarket pot of curly. Both doing ok, am letting them flower and seed so (hopefully) I get a giant permanent patch!

[captainhastings]

Thanks for the help. I normal sow direct up the allotment and only once managed a reasonable row.
But I soaked a tray in warm water and sowed in that and placed in green house last night so we shall see how they do