1stop Organic Gardening

If you’re growing things in your organic garden that you use regularly, you need to make sure you fertilize and water regularly so that the plant can remain vigorous.

I use parsley in my kitchen all the time, so I make sure that I keep it growing fast by fertilizing once a month or so with organic fertilizer pellets, or complete D. Sometimes I’ll use blood and bone for a bit of variety. And I’ll liquid fertilize occasionally with my own mix or a seaweed mix or diluted worm juice.

This picture is of my flat leaf parsley (above), which I grew from seed.

This photo to the left is my curly leaf parsley. We use a lot of both the flat and curly leaf parsley in the kitchen.

I’ve heard that if you include a lot of parsley in your diet that it helps keep your blood pressure lower. Mine’s always good, so maybe it’s true.

The other thing to be mindful of is that parsley is biennial, which means that it will grow and mature in its first season, then flower and set seed in its second season. After it’s flowered and set seed the plant will loose all vigor and die. So if you want to be sure of a continual supply, plant seed every year in spring.

Oh, and parsley seeds take a long time to germinate – between four and six weeks – so keep watering them. Don’t just assume that they aren’t going to come up – they just take a long time!!!

Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…

Julie

Filed under: Herbs, vegetables on May 7th, 2008