Parsley divided into root and leaf.Both types are very popular with the only difference that the root is used in pickles and vegetable soups and sheets mostly added to salads, fish and meat dishes as a condiment.Leafy greens, in turn, is curly and ordinary.The most popular among gardeners curly - because of its beautiful appearance and a large amount of green mass.Growing parsley possible and at home, and home gardens.Thanks to its content of vitamin C, carotene and essential oils, it is beneficial to the organism and improves the appetite.
time for sowing
This type refers to the spicy green plants, so it has enough seeds are small and germinate about 20 days.More rapid germination prevents essential oil, which, in turn, retains the possibility of emergence to one year.Green is a biennial plant, so the cultivation of parsley is happening two years: the first year is spent on the formation of roots and rosettes of leaves, and the second - developed stems with flowers.This plant is a good resistance to low temperature conditions, so can easily tolerate frosts to -9 degrees C. Growing parsley in winter time not cause any trouble.Even when the snow cover is easy to transfer the plant winter, and when spring comes quickly release new leaves sprouting already at 3 degrees above zero.The important point is that the greens are very demanding on the soil moisture and sufficient light, since wetting the soil will root disease.
germination and sowing
Growing parsley in the open field giving excellent results in the clear, fertile and loose soil.Dense clay changes the shape of plants and reduction in yield.Abundant growth greenery provide organic fertilizer, such as humus, manure or compost, which should be added during the digging site, about 5 kg per 1 square meter.Terms of sowing also greatly influence the yield.Due to the fact that the seeds germinate very slowly and need moisture of the earth, then it is better to be sown early, at the beginning of May or even April.If late in sowing the seeds fall into the arid soil and give the weak and seedlings, and many of them did not germinate.That such is the capricious greens - parsley.
Growing from seed and planting can be carried out in spring and autumn.When autumn sowing is better to choose such sections of the soil, which does not form a dense crust, and there is no danger wash plant melt water.Despite the risks, the autumn crop produced before the actual onset of cold weather, will give an early crop.Greens were seeded in rows with spacing of about 20 centimeters, and a number of order 4 centimeters.For faster germination of seeds can be soaked in water before planting by several weeks.After the appearance of germs they are placed in the soil to a depth of about 3 centimeters.
Care shoots
Proper cultivation of parsley is also dependent on the timely weeding.If you do not perform this procedure, the plants are highly elongated, while removing the weeds will fall to the ground.Weed and loosen the soil should be a few times over the summer.It is necessary at the time of weeding and thinning to produce too thick shoots, stems and torn normally used in food.
