Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: jambop on September 28, 2017, 12:27
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The leaves on my flat leaf parsley look a bit grotty. If I clip the tops off will they regrow with nice fresh leaf?
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There's nothing lost if you do.
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Hello Jambop.Firstly my parsley looked under the weather so to speak a while ago,so I cut the topos off and watered it,and when it started to regrow I gave it a feed of tomato liquid feed and it is green and normal looking now.
Secondly,in the early spring I asked for help growing my onions from seed.You will have forgotten no doubt,but you suggested sowing them in a 7 inch pot with plenty of depth of compost and leaving them in it until planting out time.Well that has worked a treat and I wanted to thank you. John.
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It depends how much longer your growing season is in S. France.
Cut back to a couple of centimeters above any new shoots and give a light feed should get a positive response!
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Firstly Gellideg glad it worked out for you saves time, compost and labour but, I think, crucially when you dib them in you get a much more firmly planted onion which I think they much prefer whereas planning a module gives no where near the soil firming around the roots.
Secondly I have just chopped they plants back. We are having weather that you probably don't get in summer down here at the moment 27C today but alas the days are getting shorter and all good things things must come to an end but the nice weather will probably get them back on the road again.
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Parsley is very forgiving and you should have plenty of nice fresh growth soon, but bear in mind the plants then will want to throw up flower stalks.
We have a rash of self sown seedlings like this every year and they are easy to move to where you want when little. Bit of a bonus tbh :D
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Not a 'top tip' as such because you can't do anything about it if it happens, but worth remembering that parsley is in the same family as carrots and parsnips and can also be attacked by carrot root fly, which can weaken or even kill the plant.
If a sickly looking plant pulls easily out of the ground that's probably what's happened (don't bother replanting it!)
I grow most of my parsley in my north facing front garden because it's rare amongst herbs in being perfectly happy, or even actually preferring, not being in full sun.
I use an occasional general purpose liquid feed to help keep it motivated. ;)