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- Multiply parsley - collect and sow seeds
- Multiply parsley by seeds
- Dry seeds
- Attention: parsley seeds are poisonous
- Sow parsley
- Tips & Tricks
Multiply parsley - collect and sow seeds
Like all umbelliferae, parsley is propagated by seeds. You can gain seeds by plucking them from the plant after flowering, or simply buy a bag of ready-made seeds. This also applies to parsley roots, which are also grown from seed.
Multiply parsley by seeds
Parsley flowers in the second year in June and July. The inflorescences are fertilized by insects and can be picked when they are ripe.
The maturity of the seeds can be recognized by the fact that the seeds are very dark and almost spontaneously dissolve out of the flower.
After harvesting seeds, tear the mother plant and compost it. Parsley leaves should no longer be used in the kitchen after flowering because they contain too much Apiol.
Dry seeds
Allow the collected parsley seeds to dry for a few days in an airy place for propagation.
Then put the seeds in a paper bag or even better a bag of parchment paper. Store the bag in a dry, not too warm place.
Parsley seeds lasts up to three years.
Attention: parsley seeds are poisonous
If you have harvested seeds from your parsley plants, you should pick it up carefully. Under no circumstances may it reach the reach of children or pets.
The seed contains high concentrations of the poisonous apiol, an essential oil that causes very severe discomfort from the contractions of the digestive organs and uterus.
Sow parsley
You can sow parsley in many ways:
If you want to maintain your parsley on the balcony or window sill, choose to sow as soon as possible under favorable conditions.
Parsley for the field should be sowed better in August. Then you will have less problems with pests and diseases later.
Tips & Tricks
For people who have little time, the garden shop offers ready-made parsley seed pots. Here, the seeds are already seeded at the right distance in a suitable cultivation soil. All you have to do is follow the instructions and be patient. Within a few weeks, the first peaks show up and you can soon harvest fresh parsley from the windowsill or balcony.
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