Skip to product information
1 of 2

Parsley Forest Green

Parsley Forest Green

Regular price $3.00 USD
Regular price Sale price $3.00 USD
Sale Sold out
Shipping calculated at checkout.

Plant Forest Green parsley seeds in your organic herb garden. The plants have short, strong stems that support big clusters of highly curled, dark-green leaves. The flavour is distinctly savoury without being bitter. Parsley adds a subtle, but key flavour to a host of Mediterranean dishes. It is widely used in companion planting because its strong scent repels insects like the Asparagus Beetle. 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. (Open-pollinated seeds)

    • Non-bitter flavour
    • Highly curled dark-green leaves
    • Attracts beneficial insects
    • Open-pollinated seeds
    • Matures in 80 days

    _________________________________________________________________________________________________

    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.

    View full details