Herb / Shoulder season
Italian Flat Leaf Parsley
Kitchen herb containers and beneficial-insect flowers if overwintered.
Clean, savory leaves for everyday cooking.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 75
- Germination temperature
- 50-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 8 inches
- Row spacing
- 12 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 8 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 14 days before last frost
- Transplant
- on last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow or transplant depending on your soil warmth, bed readiness, and frost-risk plan.
- How much space?
- 8 inches in-row spacing, 12 inches between rows, and 0.25 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Do not give up early; parsley germination is slow. Even moisture during slow establishment. Fertile, well-drained soil.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Even moisture during slow establishment.
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Do not give up early; parsley germination is slow.
- herb
- containers
- slow-germination
- beneficial-insects
Browse context
- Herb Catalog Category collection
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Source: UMN starting seeds indoors