Planting parsley in open ground in spring: timing and rules for sowing seeds

Parsley is one of the few leafy vegetables that seems to be specially created for humans. It would seem a banal herb, and how many useful things are collected in it, this is a real storehouse of health, which is indispensable neither in winter nor in summer. Everything in it goes into action: the leaves, the root, and the seeds are used in the daily diet of a person who cares about maintaining their health and the normal functioning of all body systems. You will receive even more incomparable pleasure and true benefits from home-grown fragrant parsley. It can be sown directly to the garden bed.

Next, you will find out all the nuances regarding when, how to plant parsley and grow it in the open field.

By the way! To get earlier greens, you can sow parsley for seedlings at home.

Types and varieties of parsley

There are two types of parsley:

• Root (Sugar, Alba, Piquant);
• Leafy.

Although now breeders have developed a universal variety, which has both roots and leaves (for example, the Bogatyr variety).

In this case, the sheet happens:

• Common (Italian giant, Sandwich, Titan, Gloria);
• Curly (Grandma's bed, Mooskrause, Petra).

In leaf parsley, only the leaves are suitable for food. In addition to the root vegetable, you can also eat greens from root parsley, but if you start picking it off too early, then the fruit simply will not grow and it will turn out to be very small.

Video: how to grow parsley - the best varieties

When to plant parsley outdoors

If you are going to sow parsley seeds directly into open ground, then the optimal time is the end of March or April, depending on the weather conditions in your region. For example, in the Middle Lane (Moscow region), parsley is planted in the spring in the second half of April.

Parsley is a cold-resistant crop that is not afraid of recurrent spring frosts.

By the way!You can plant parsley in the fall (before winter).

According to the lunar calendar in 2020

Many gardeners often turn to the lunar calendar for specific dates for more discipline.

So, the most auspicious days in 2020 for sowing leaf parsley in open ground are:

• March - 2-8, 26-29;
• April - 1, 2, 11-15, 17-20, 25-30;
• May - 2-4, 6, 9, 10-12, 15-17, 20, 21, 25-29;
• June - 2-4, 7-9, 11-14, 16-19, 30;
• July - 8-11, 13-16, 27-29;
• August - there are no favorable dates;
• September - there are no favorable dates;
• October - 18, 19;
• November - 5-7, 22-27.

By the way! If you are going to plant parsley to the root (root), then for this completely different favorable dates according to the lunar calendar.

So auspicious days lunar landing root parsley in 2020 are:

• in March - 8, 10, 16-19;
• in April - 5-7, 9-15, 17-22, 27-30;
• in May - 2-6, 9, 11, 12, 20-22, 29-31;
• in June - 7-9, 11-14;
• in July - 4, 6, 8-11, 13-16, 27-29;
• in August - 5-10;
• in September - 24-26;
• in October - 3-6, 8-11, 13-15, 18-23, 26-28;
• in November - 5-9, 22-24.

However, it is not so important to sow greens or vegetables on an auspicious day, how not to do it on an unfavorable one (the days of the Full Moon and New Moon, as well as the period when the Moon is in Aquarius, since this is a barren and dry sign -italicized), and according to the lunar calendar 2020 it is:

• in March - 9,19-21, 24;
• in April - 8,15-17, 23;
• in May - 7,13-14, 22;
• in June - 5,9-11, 21;
• in July - 5,7-8, 20;
• in August -3, 4-5, 19, 31;
• in September -1, 2, 17, 27-28.
• in October - 2, 16,24-26, 31
• in November - 15,20-22, 30.

According to the lunar calendar from the magazine "1000 Tips for the Summer Resident".

Preparing parsley seeds for sowing

Parsley seeds, like others from the umbrella family (parsnips, celery, dill, carrots), are coated with essential oils that inhibit their pecking. If you want to improve the germination of planting material, it should be pre-treated, namely soaked.

Advice! The site has a detailed article about how to carry out pre-sowing treatment of carrot seeds (for parsley everything is the same).

Planting parsley seeds outdoors

The most important thing when growing and sowing parsley in the ground is to choose and properly prepare the garden and soil.

Organic fertilizers, such as compost or humus, should be placed in the soil before planting.

If your soil is very clayey, then add more sand and / or peat to it.

Advice! Parsley is a biennial plant, so you should choose a site for planting that you definitely won't need next year, and you won't want to dig it up. And next spring you will have super early greens.

Before sowing, the bed must be well dug up (or loosened), fertilizer must be added (nitrogen — urea or ammonium nitrate), spill well with water, compact the earth and make rows for sowing at a distance of 15-20 centimeters from each other.

The planting depth of parsley seeds depends on the sowing time. If you plant in early spring in late March - early April, then you should deepen it by 1 cm, and if at the end of April - early May, then by 2 centimeters.

But again, it depends on the region of your residence and weather conditions: if the terms have come, and there is snow outside the window, then no one will think about any sowing.

Advice! Cover the seedbed with foil or spunbond for about a week to speed up seedling.

It is no longer necessary to water the crops until the germination.

By the way! You can get fresh parsley from the very spring until the first frost if you plant it on a conveyor belt, in other words, you need to sow seeds every 2-3 weeks (until mid-August). Plus you can help yourself with extra planting of these greens for seedlings or at all grow it at home on a windowsill.

Video: how to sow parsley in the spring in open ground

Outdoor parsley care

Further care for parsley in the open field will consist of regular watering as the soil dries, thinning, loosening and weeding from weeds at the very beginning of its development.

Watering parsley is best done in the evening.

By the way! Root parsley most of all adores abundant watering in August, it is then that its root crops require moisture.

If you have sandy soil, then you need to water the plantings more often than, for example, on the same loams.

As a rule, parsley does not need fertilizing on pre-fertilized soil. If your soil is excessively sandy, then during the season you can feed it with infusion of mullein, bird droppings, or herbal infusion.

Important! Liquid dressing should be done so that fertilizer does not fall on the leaves, but only on the ground next to the greenery.

Leaf parsley, as a rule, does not need to be thinned, since it occurs naturally in it.

Root like carrot, requires mandatory thinning if you want to achieve a good harvest and large root crops.

When to harvest parsley and how to store it

You can cut the leafy parsley at any time as it develops. It can be stored either dried or frozen.

The root parsley is harvested in the fall. You can store it in almost the same way as carrot.

By the way! If you don't dig up the root parsley in the fall, you can get the earliest greens next spring. Therefore, be sure to leave some parsley in the garden.

If you care about your future parsley crop, trust our good advice and advice, and an excellent result will not be long in coming.