How to Grow Parsley Indoors or outside?

How to Grow Parsley Indoors is the question asked by people who want to grow their own healthy superfood greens in front of their eyes. Parsley is a widely propagated medicinal and flavoring herb in the world and is hardy, biennial but treated as annual and grown in summer regions. Parsley provides many nutrients like vitamin A, C, and K It protects us from many chronic diseases cancer, asthma, and bone issues. It is mildly bitter in taste and used in many savory dishes for giving food better presentation also used in garnishing. Therefore, you may want to grow parsley at your home or indoors. This article will help you understand all-important things you need to know about growing parsley at home.

How to Grow Parsley Indoors?

Production Technology of Parsley

Varieties of parsley                

• Curled leaf parsley
• Italian parsley
• Flat-leaf parsley
• Forest green parsley

Benefits of parsley

• It helps to prevent the lines and wrinkles from the skin
• Eating parsley makes bones strong
• It helps in digestion and reduces bloating
• Breathing should be fresh

  

• It helps in bladder infection
• Protect eyes
• Keep your heart healthy
• It is high in antioxidants
• It reduces the risks of arthritis
• It helps to fights inflammation
• It can stimulate hair growth
• Parsley seed oil is used to make fragrant soaps, cosmetics, and perfumes

Growing Guide

Parsley can grow indoor and outdoor, in soil, and also in water at your home garden. Harvest fresh parsley from your pot and make the recipe whatever you want!

• First, you need moist and loamy soil for seed sowing
• Take a hand full of parsley seeds and sow them all in the soil
• Parsley does well in both full-sun and part-sun environments
• If you are growing parsley indoors, place it near a sunny window
• Parsley seeds germinate slowly, so soak seeds for 24 hours in lukewarm water
• Take a pot with propagation medium add seeds with hand ¼ inch deep and cover with soil
• Sow them six to eight inches apart for larger plants distance

  

• Keep the soil moist for full anchorage and firmness
• Parsley seeds take three weeks to germinate
• Keep the pot inside, to save it from frost
• Parsley seeds germinate very slowly with thin two to three inches seedlings and tall not more than five to seven cm
• Harvest the parsley when proper dark green and full leaf developed with the help of a sharp knife
• Parsley is the only herb that can regrow when you prune its leaves or stems for cooking or your food.

Recipes of parsley

• Parsley spaghettis
• Chili lemon parsley sauce
• Parsley chutney
• Lemon and Parsley tea
• Parsley salads

Parsley sauce

Take two to three stems of parsley, salt, chili flakes, black pepper, and green chilies and make a paste in pestle mortar. Now add squeezed yoghurt and lemon in it and enjoy it with your lunch or dinner.

Parsley tea

Take some parsley leaves dried or fresh in a mug with some drops of lemon in it. Now put warm water in mug stir it thoroughly and enjoy it in winters. This tea is also very helpful in losing weight.

Parsley ginger chutney

Take two to three cloves of garlic, ginger, and green chilies. Make a paste of it in a blender. Then add salt and black pepper to it. Squeeze yoghurt about two to three spoons and add the whole paste in it. Enjoy this spicy ginger chutney in your lunch or dinner.

Tips and Takeaway

• Parsley cannot grow in water but in proper hydroponic system
• Keep the plant away from foggy weather conditions
• Keep plant indoor in winters
• Put indoor plants near high sunlight window direction
• Its seed germination rate is slow
• Its stems regrow after pruning or harvesting

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