When to sow parsley?
- Botanical name
- Petroselinum crispum
- Family
- Apiaceae
Parsley is sown outdoors from April to August, 1 cm deep. It germinates in 20 to 30 days. It is harvested from May to October.
Parsley is a biennial plant. The edible parts are the roots, leaves and flowers.
Parsley through the year
- indoor sowing
- transplanting
- outdoor sowing
- harvest
In short
The last frost is not on the same day everywhere, so the recorded weeks are a guide and not a date.
Growing conditions
Companions in the bed
Companion planting is tradition and not an agronomic claim. What is recorded is which pairs sources recommend and which they advise against.
Space used well: the parsley stays low under the aubergine.
- “Cited” means the pair is named by one source or two.
Pests and diseases
Listed here is every problem for which the sources name this plant as a host. The problems are not listed in order of how common they are.
Carrot fly
pest- Signs
- Just under the skin of the root there are rusty pits and tunnels, with small yellowish larvae in them. The top can turn yellow. An attacked root is no use in store and rots quickly.
- Prevention
- Sow thinly, so that you do not have to thin out, because the smell at thinning is what draws the females in. Sow later and harvest earlier to dodge the first and the second generation. Keep to a rotation, because the fly hatches from the soil.
- What to do
- Cover the whole bed with fine insect mesh from sowing on. Covering the whole bed is more reliable than a vertical barrier along it.
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Related plants
The plants below are in the same botanical family (Apiaceae).
Sources about the plant: Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Weinbau und Gartenbau, Clemson Cooperative Extension, GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, Johnny's Selected Seeds, KGZS, NC State Extension Plant Toolbox, Royal Horticultural Society, Semenarna Ljubljana, Smernice za strokovno utemeljeno gnojenje (Mihelič et al., MKGP 2011), University of Georgia Extension, University of Maryland Extension, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, Wikidata. Checked between 14 and 30 August 2026. The problem descriptions also draw on: EPPO Global Database.