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Japanese Parsley Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

An aromatic leafy vegetable for wet ground or water trays, cut repeatedly through spring and regrowing from runners.

Japanese Parsley

Oenanthe javanica

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Sow / plantGrowingHarvest

Guides

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (3)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Swallowtail Caterpillar

MajorPest

Leaves are eaten away from the base leaving only bare stalks. A single large caterpillar can strip an entire plant bare.

Aphids

CommonPest

Small green or black insects cluster on shoot tips and leaf undersides, crinkling the leaves and stopping growth. The honeydew they excrete supports sooty mold that blackens the foliage.

Slugs

CommonPest

Irregular holes are chewed in leaves and fruit with glistening slime trails nearby. By day they hide under pots and bricks or in dead leaves at the base of the plant.

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