How To Harvest Parsley

Hi. My name's John from Growing Life, London, UK, urban and indoor gardening specialists, and we're going to talk about how to harvest parsley. So, what do we need to harvest parsley? Well, the first and most important thing is a healthy parsley plant.

Here we've got two types of parsley: flat leaf and curly leaf. The first question which is most commonly asked when people ask, "How do I harvest parsley?" is "Do you cut it from the top or the bottom of the stem?" Parsley, we harvest from the bottom of the stem. We could just take the leaves, but if we do, the stem will then dry out and shrivel up and then, as part of good gardening, we would then have to later remove it.

So, it may as well be removed at the point of harvesting, even if you decide not to use the stem. What we try and do is obviously choose mature leaves which we'll typically find on the outer-most part of the plant. But equally, we might choose to take some of this taller stems which are shading light from the lower leaves.

By removing these ones and allowing light to penetrate further, we'll encourage further growth and production of parsley leaf for our next harvest. If you've bought parsley from a super market, parsley plants, or from a garden center, it is well worth washing them before you use them. I'd recommend you do this with your own anyhow, but because it's a low growing herb, there may well be both soil and insects hidden in the parsley.

So, do give it a good wash before you use it. My name is John, from Growing Life, London, and that was a brief introduction on how to harvest parsley. .