Parsley is quite popular plant which is grown up by many summer residents on the parcels. These unusually useful greens are used as seasoning to many dishes. To receive rich harvest of parsley, it is necessary to approach its landing and leaving attentively.
Landing of parsley
The soil for cultivation of parsley has to be slightly increased or normal acidity, have friable structure. It is desirable to choose half-shade or the solar place for crops. Good predecessors: cabbage, cucumbers, potatoes, onions, tomatoes. It is not recommended to plant parsley where carrots, caraway seeds, cilantro and fennel grew during last season. It is the best of all to prepare beds in the fall. Introduce mineral and organic fertilizers to the soil under redigging. It is necessary to introduce in addition phosphoric and potash fertilizers in the spring, it is possible to add ammonium nitrate and urea.
Prepare weak solution of permanganate of potassium and wet in it parsley seeds for day. Then place sunflower seeds in damp gauze and couch before emergence of white sprouts. If you want to receive urgently shoots, wet sunflower seeds for four hours in milk, then in potassium permanganate solution. It is possible to use dry seeds for landing, but they will ascend for week later, than previously wetted.
Now time for landing of parsley has come (usually plant parsley in April). Make in the prepared bed small grooves, one-two centimeter in depth. The distance between grooves has to make fifteen centimeters from each other. Evenly lay seeds, then condense the soil, accurately patting on it. From above mulch humus. The first shoots will appear approximately in ten-fifteen days.
Care for parsley
It is simple to look after parsley. Greens love regular waterings (at least two times a week), from time to time loosen the soil, thin out parsley and exempt it from weeds. If you often take greens from bed, then there is natural thinning of bushes in process of growth. At the first thinning between plants it is necessary to leave about three centimeters. In two weeks thin out repeatedly, the final distance between bushes of parsley has to make from five to ten centimeters. Once a month it is necessary to feed up parsley fertilizers of general purpose. Thanks to it, you will be able to maintain productivity of greens during the whole season. At opportunity bring compost that it was saturated with nutrients in the soil. It will give to parsley good impetus to growth. You watch that leaves of parsley had no signs of damages by insects and diseases. If those are available, it is necessary to take immediately measures to keep harvest. This type of greens is subject to the following diseases and wreckers: white decay, carrot fly, stem nematode, rust, carrot listobloshka, melon plant louse. When parsley releases all stalks on which three lobes will grow, can safely break it. It is necessary to pick greens throughout all season, slowly. Cut off external stalks of parsley at the earth to stimulate the new growth of plant. Gathering greens from tops will reduce productivity.