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How to Grow Parsley: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

A biennial herb slow to germinate, grown in a pot or bed and picked leaf by leaf from the outside so the centre keeps growing.

Parsley

Petroselinum crispum

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 (24)

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.

Fusarium YellowsFusarium WiltPowdery MildewLate BlightSclerotinia RotAnthracnoseDamping-offBacterial Soft RotRoot RotRoot-knot NematodeGray MoldVerticillium WiltLeaf SpotAlternaria BlightRed Leaf SymptomRoot ConstrictionPlant-parasitic NematodesSeptoria Leaf SpotFusarium Wilt and Damping-offBacterial DiseaseBacterial RotLeaf Tip BlightLeaf Blight

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