Delicate parsley from spring to late autumn!

Secrets of Successful Parsley Growing

Parsley in our country is one of the first in the list of favorite spices. Its leaves can be used to flavor and decorate main courses and salads. To do this, you need to grow leafy or curly parsley. If this culture is necessary for salting, pickling, sauces, then you need to sow root parsley.

To plant this plant, you need to prepare the soil and loosen it. Planting begins in either April or November. The plot of land intended for planting can be in the shade and in the sun.

The harvest will rise earlier in the sun. Seeds should be placed on damp gauze for 3-5 days. When they hatch, you can start creating grooves 1 to 2 centimeters deep. The distance between them should be within 10 centimeters. Although it is better to prepare the beds in the fall, because at this time mineral and organic fertilizers are introduced into the soil. In addition, potassium phosphate fertilizers are applied in the spring, ammonium nitrate and urea can also be used. To prevent parsley from disappearing from the diet, it must be planted in stages: 1 time in 2 weeks. In addition, it is important to thin out the crop, leaving 7 to 15 centimeters between plants if it is a root variety and 20 centimeters if it is a leaf variety. Greens should be watered regularly (especially after cutting the leaves).

In the spring, the planting site should be covered with a film so that the soil does not freeze in flashes of cold.

In order to protect the plant from yellowing in summer due to direct sunlight, it is necessary to plant some seeds in the shade. There they will germinate later, but will be protected from the sun of a hot day.

You can also plant green seedlings instead of seeds. Since parsley is a biennial plant, it is possible to induce vegetation in winter and get parsley in early spring. This will require several root parsley seedlings to be buried in a high bed in early spring. The roots should be stored in wet sand in the basement until planting. You can also plant parsley seedlings at the end of March, which will take a long time to grow. However, after a month, small bushes will appear. These seedlings should be grown in a shaded area. Thus, in early May, fresh herbs will appear in large quantities.

Parsley tolerates cold well. It can withstand 5-7 degrees of frost and will continue to grow after frost.

As for the root parsley, it is harvested at the end of autumn along with the carrots. It is not frozen, but placed in a cellar, placed in boxes with sand so that the plant does not dry out. You can also leave some roots in the garden, if it is dry and tall, to get greens in early spring.

The seeds of this crop can be stored for 2-3 years after harvest.