Dark green curly parsley - organic plant

Dark Green Curly Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a variety with frilled leaves that will bring an aromatic and decorative touch to your dishes when finely chopped. Parsley is one of the most commonly used herbs, to enhance salads, sauced dishes, or make a bouquet garni. Grow it in the vegetable garden or in a pot. Plant in spring or autumn and harvest throughout the year.

This plant is organic: it comes from Organic Agriculture and carries the AB certification.

Parsley belongs to the Apiaceae family and is one of the most commonly used herbs. This biennial plant, native to the Middle East, is cultivated as an annual unless you want it to go to seed and harvest its seeds. It then produces umbels of tiny yellowish-green to white flowers. There are mainly two categories of parsley: flat-leaf parsley, considered more aromatic, and curly parsley, which adds a decorative touch to dishes. There is also tuberous parsley, grown for its foliage but also for its roots, which are similar to parsnips.

Parsley is rich in vitamins A and C, as well as trace elements and minerals. In cooking, parsley leaves can be consumed raw, to enhance salads, or cooked, to flavour omelettes, soups, and sauced dishes. Combine parsley with thyme, rosemary, and bay leaf to make a bouquet garni, ideal for flavouring slow-cooked dishes. Its finely cut leaves also add a decorative touch. In terms of flavour, the stems are more aromatic than the leaves.

Harvest: Cut the leaves with scissors as needed throughout the year. Regular picking stimulates leaf production.

Storage: Use parsley fresh to fully enjoy its aroma. However, you can freeze or dry parsley for longer storage. For drying, let bunches of parsley dry upside down in a dry place. When the stems become brittle, crumble them and transfer them to an airtight container.

Gardener's tip: To limit watering, we recommend mulching the soil with a mixture of successive layers of grass clippings, if possible mixed with dead leaves. This will keep the soil moist and limit weed growth.