Parsley Dark Green Italian Plain
Parsley Dark Green Italian Plain
Flat, dark green leaves are deeply cut, with a rich parsley flavour ideal for cooking or salads. Dark Green Italian Parsley Seeds are easy to grow, sturdy plants with stiff upright stems. Holds flavour better than the curly kind when dried. Use parsley in companion planting: Parsley likes asparagus, carrots, chives, corn, onions, and tomatoes. The leaves can be sprinkled on asparagus to repel asparagus beetles, and around roses, to improve their scent. Let some of your parsley go to bloom to attract hover-flies and predatory wasps. Parsley is a biennial plant that forms a long (edible) tap root. Choose deep pots for container growing.
Matures in 80 days.
- Rich parsley flavour
- Nice in deep containers
- Sturdy plants with upright stems
- Holds flavour better when dried
- Matures in 80 days
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Latin
Petroselinum crispum
Family: Apiaceae
Difficulty
Easy
Season & Zone
Season: Cool season
Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
Zone: Hardy to Zone 6
Starting
If starting indoors, sow seeds 1cm (½”) deep, in sterilized seed starting mix, in peat pots or plug trays. Like its cousins dill and cilantro, parsley develops a taproot that does better if left undisturbed. Sow outdoors in drills 3cm (1¼”) deep, spaced 8cm (3″) apart. Thin final plants to 15cm (6″) apart.