I have a "perennial" bed of Parsley. It goes to seed each fall, and the seeds drop off to the ground. Late fall I cut off all of the plant tops and clean the bed, the next spring new plants sprout and start a new season with plenty of Parsley to harvest all summer long.
@@Warrior-In-the-Garden Yes, for over a decade. However, last summer it got invaded by the bindweed, and it is going to be difficult to get that out without totally redoing the area.
I saved seeds from EVERYTHING I grew this year. I had bought all my seeds last fall (2019) to plant this spring & suddenly there were no seeds available! I was so thankful because I was able to grow seedlings for my parents, my sister & my best friend. It was my first time starting seeds & I had bought many packets from *MI Gardener* - they were awesome & produced beyond my wildest dreams! Thank you Luke - the knowledge you teach & the inspiration you ignite, is purely awesome!
Growing from seed is so much fun and satisfying. This was my first year gardening and saving any seeds. I decided to try growing some herbs indoors for the winter and was delighted when the chive seeds I had harvested started to come up. 😊
Thank you for this video. It has inspired me to challenge my daughter to save seeds this year. We just put together our seed order including potatoes, ginger and tumeric and it was $400. Perhaps with a seed saving plan we can harvest the majority of our own seeds in 2021! Again, thank you!
My neighbor turned me on to your seeds. She started many tomato plants and gave me 4. They went nuts and gave way more tomatoes than I could handle. That's including canning 3 laundry baskets full. I'm going to plant half my garden with your seeds next year.
Can't remember exactly but it looked like a Roma so probably a roma or federly or gilbertie I'm guessing.. I had 4 of these tomato plants and what looked like a big rainbow and they all produced really well. If you want zucchini buy the cashflow seeds from true leaf and plant 12 plants.
All I did is clear grass with a tractor then I rotortilled then mixed in a 3 inch layer of soil enricher from my local nursery. I then planted and just watered. No miracle grow or any other fertilizer.
The botanical term for that "flower type", aka cluster of flowers, flower head or inflorescence is a compound umbel. It's characteristic of most members of the carrot family, Apiaceae. You can use it to spot relatives from a distance. Use caution though some carrot family members are deadly toxic.
Thank you for this video, I know now where parsley seeds comes from, I just need to wait until my parsley flowers dries up to have my own seeds, God bless
I have parsley I planted in a sunny spot and it went to seed quickly. I wasn't sure when to harvest it, but now I know, thanks for the tip. I also planted parsley in a shady spot, it hasn't gone to seed and has been giving us plenty of parsley.
Thanks Luke and great timing. Processed my parsley seed in Oct and many others up to this week. Been a seed saver since I was little, now I'm finally getting something for doing it.
Nice video. Currently, to my surprise, the rosemary and the thyme remain flourishing. When the dill went to seed I let it go. Next year I think there will be thousands of dill in that space. Also today I saw the broccoli continues trying in the makeshift housing I made. Today I ate some of the broccoli. There is far less insects during the cold weather. 😀 Also late I planted arugula, radishes and kale. Then built a little Quonset over that area. I've put lots of fallen leaves around and over the Quonset and yesterday clearing it off I see the plants are growing. Now I'm trying to figure out how to improve that. Also I saw lots of worms in the soil under bale cover used to winter over the area. I'm not sure but am thinking the bale will keep the area warm, kind of like a pile of leaves does. Not sure though. Thank you for your inspirations, despite already having had a few below freezing days and nights. Garden on....
Love using fresh parsley from seed. Got a lot of seeds this year from a ready plant. Replanted a few more and they started growing .parsley is prolific
Fascinating stuff. I wonder if this will work for chervil? This year I tried something new and grew chervil from seed, using heirloom seeds. It's very similar to parsley (somtimes nicknamed "French parsley"), but I might have to wait another year until it bolts.
THANK YOU!!! I’m new to gardening but I’ve had a potted Parsley plant for 2yrs that’s got a large flower stalk on it with multiple flower head branch things on it. Only recently learned I can get seeds from it!! I’ve recently gotten tiny mylar bags & O2 absorbers so I can store seeds long term as my new plants seed & also buying & storing them long term… I’m shocked by how many seeds came out of that one flower head!!! 😃😃 That’s amazing & has me very excited!!! 😃😃 BTW, will storing any kind of seeds in mini mylar bags, totally light blocking with a O2 absorber work for storing seeds long term? Or would a O2 absorber kill the seeds & should I do it without? O2 absorbers don’t kill off nutrients in foods, if anything it helps increase it but unsure if seeds are different? Would really appreciate your knowledge on it? 😁🙏
Very cool. You videos have gotten me to do more seed saving and I was wondering if you'd do one on radishes (next year obviously). I've done it a few times and though rewarding it's ... labour intensive to get all of the seeds our of the husks.
After watching this video, I'm hoping my first year parsley will survive the winter. Since it's still growing in the cold I've been harvesting it for compost. I didn't know that it needed a second year to flower!
My flat leaf parsley produced seeds it’s first year. Is it annual and not like curly leaf parsley? Or did mine flower because I planted it early spring and we had snow/freeze?
So, when you pull the plant up, do you pull it up by the roots or just cut it back? Are the leaves still ok to clip and use or not? Thank you in advance for responding.
How long does the seed keep for,and once dry can you keep them in the fridge to make them keep longer than they would just in a paper bag inside your cupboard
Do different types of parsley easily cross with other types of parsley? For example, if I have curly parsley next to flat leaf, will it end up cross breeding like a squash would?
It’s summer here in Australia and I’m waiting for mine to get to where I can harvest. Can I just drop the seeds directly back to the soil or do I have to do the whole drying process before I put it on the soil?
So, if none of the flowers actually produced seed the second year could you leave it and try again next year to get blooms, rather than pull the plant? Or how does that all work?
Can you talk about how the de icer wires are working for you? Especially for seeds ....I'm thinking of doing that but was hoping to hear how it works so far first:)
Hi Luke! I was wondering if bagging the flower with a mesh bag, or a light fabric bag, is a feasible technique to catch seeds. I'd be afraid I'd miss the perfect time, and the seeds would fall to the ground. The seeds are so tiny that I'd guess they can't practically be picked up out of the dirt. Thanks for your time!
To anyone who may know: It’s mid July, and two of my parsley plants are huge and bolted a while ago. I ignored them, because I didn’t have time to figure out what to do, but now I need the space. They have flowers on them, but Luke is in winter in this video. Can I pull off the flowers? It seems parsley follows me around and always put out a plant right by my back door, even in the winter! lol!
How it become very big? I planted parsley in a garden bed 3months ago and its very little …. I don’t know how to take care of it and to make it bushy like yours
I have a question. I have a garden full of parsley that over grows every year. It drops the seed and there's a full garden of parsley every year. Is this OK to do?
If you leave the parsley plant alone will it reseed again? I know it's no longer worth eating, but will it continue to reliably produce viable seed? If so, why not just leave the parent plant alone and just keep harvesting it's seed year after year?
I am zone 10A, which is subtropical. My parsley goes to seed within the same year of planting, so I grow in the winter for the leaves as herb and it will go to seed with the hot temperatures of summer.
i had a slew of swallow tail caterpillars eat all my parsley/seed before it matured this year. i apparently harvested a bunch of it right before the caterpillars hatched and they finished off what i left to go to seed.
Someone please help. My parsley has bolted and I wanted to collect the seed. But when I follow his advice all the seed just looks like granules of sand (not seed like the video) what’s going on? Have I done something wrong? Thanx guys!!!
@MIgardener Do you know of a source where I can get , preferably, Japanese Black Pine seeds that are viable? I've had a couple of packets that I got from amazon (approx 200 seeds), some seemed viable after stratification but I've had no luck getting them to germinate. Any suggestions? I've been trying this for about a year now. Thanks.
Don't fear these times we are in, for there is hope. The hope is in Christ Jesus, And I encourage people to draw close to the Lord and Savior in these uncertain times. And for the non beleivers to have an open mind About having a relationship with their creator. For God made you special and he loves you very much. 🤗
What?!? Both my parsley plants were just germinated about 2 months ago and they both went to flower already? If it is bi annual why is it flowering already?
I just asked Luke in this comment section if it's feasible to bag the flowers with mesh or fabric bags. This would protect from birds, and catch seeds instead of letting them fall to the ground, if you want to collect and save them. Watch for his answer - just look for my little cat icon (her name is Luna). Maybe Luke will also include his answer in a future video about seed gathering.Have a great day!
Liliana Roman I think you should have left it in the ground to overwinter outside. It you are concerned about BITTER COLD, then you could cover it with dry straw (hay tends to be seedy) and uncover it in spring. Parsley is surprisingly winter hardy if it has good drainage.
It's great to save seeds. If you plan to to use a certain seed you love to grow is there an actual advantage to using organic? The genetics would be the same. The only small advantages is the potential for harmful chemicals on the seeds themselves which are quite small. The food grown from them would be the same under the same conditions. I would rather eat organic mainly because of the lack of chemicals they are grown in and the fact they protect the soil which affects the plants and the environment. The seeds themselves, if they are the same cultivar, make a negligible difference.
That happened to me as well. I still haven't finished the video but I'd say I planted it on too-fertilized soil. P.S.: the same happened with radishes. They went straight to flowering and didn't grow their "bulges" (you say it like that? I'm a Spanish speaker 😅).
Added benefit of saving seeds is that the next generation of plants will be more acclimated to your climate and soil growing conditions!
🤔 I didn't know that, thanks.
I have a "perennial" bed of Parsley. It goes to seed each fall, and the seeds drop off to the ground. Late fall I cut off all of the plant tops and clean the bed, the next spring new plants sprout and start a new season with plenty of Parsley to harvest all summer long.
Love this idea.I am going to give this a try this year. Is it still going?
@@Warrior-In-the-Garden Yes, for over a decade. However, last summer it got invaded by the bindweed, and it is going to be difficult to get that out without totally redoing the area.
Im interested on how you manage pests and disease
My parsley reseeds every couple years. It’s everywhere and I love it.
Awesome timing. I'm in Australia and I am collecting my coriander seeds today.
I saved seeds from EVERYTHING I grew this year. I had bought all my seeds last fall (2019) to plant this spring & suddenly there were no seeds available! I was so thankful because I was able to grow seedlings for my parents, my sister & my best friend. It was my first time starting seeds & I had bought many packets from *MI Gardener* - they were awesome & produced beyond my wildest dreams! Thank you Luke - the knowledge you teach & the inspiration you ignite, is purely awesome!
Growing from seed is so much fun and satisfying. This was my first year gardening and saving any seeds. I decided to try growing some herbs indoors for the winter and was delighted when the chive seeds I had harvested started to come up. 😊
Wow from 1 you get hundreds awesome for the lessons brother Luke
Thank you for this video. It has inspired me to challenge my daughter to save seeds this year. We just put together our seed order including potatoes, ginger and tumeric and it was $400. Perhaps with a seed saving plan we can harvest the majority of our own seeds in 2021! Again, thank you!
My neighbor turned me on to your seeds. She started many tomato plants and gave me 4. They went nuts and gave way more tomatoes than I could handle. That's including canning 3 laundry baskets full. I'm going to plant half my garden with your seeds next year.
Yes please I'd love to know the variety.
Can't remember exactly but it looked like a Roma so probably a roma or federly or gilbertie I'm guessing.. I had 4 of these tomato plants and what looked like a big rainbow and they all produced really well. If you want zucchini buy the cashflow seeds from true leaf and plant 12 plants.
All I did is clear grass with a tractor then I rotortilled then mixed in a 3 inch layer of soil enricher from my local nursery. I then planted and just watered. No miracle grow or any other fertilizer.
Be ready for a good pile of produce.
I don't know why I've not saved this seed before! That changes now.👍
The botanical term for that "flower type", aka cluster of flowers, flower head or inflorescence is a compound umbel. It's characteristic of most members of the carrot family, Apiaceae. You can use it to spot relatives from a distance. Use caution though some carrot family members are deadly toxic.
Thank you for this video, I know now where parsley seeds comes from, I just need to wait until my parsley flowers dries up to have my own seeds, God bless
I have parsley I planted in a sunny spot and it went to seed quickly. I wasn't sure when to harvest it, but now I know, thanks for the tip.
I also planted parsley in a shady spot, it hasn't gone to seed and has been giving us plenty of parsley.
I'm in Sydney, planted my parsley last month and its flowering!
Thanks Luke and great timing. Processed my parsley seed in Oct and many others up to this week. Been a seed saver since I was little, now I'm finally getting something for doing it.
Nice video. Currently, to my surprise, the rosemary and the thyme remain flourishing. When the dill went to seed I let it go. Next year I think there will be thousands of dill in that space. Also today I saw the broccoli continues trying in the makeshift housing I made. Today I ate some of the broccoli. There is far less insects during the cold weather. 😀 Also late I planted arugula, radishes and kale. Then built a little Quonset over that area. I've put lots of fallen leaves around and over the Quonset and yesterday clearing it off I see the plants are growing. Now I'm trying to figure out how to improve that. Also I saw lots of worms in the soil under bale cover used to winter over the area. I'm not sure but am thinking the bale will keep the area warm, kind of like a pile of leaves does. Not sure though. Thank you for your inspirations, despite already having had a few below freezing days and nights. Garden on....
Luke: "First thing you need to save parsley seed is time."
Me: Makes a note to companion plant my parsley with thyme.
TH-cam Auto Subtitles: “...To get your parsley to flour is you need thyme...” I love their subtitles some days.
Love using fresh parsley from seed. Got a lot of seeds this year from a ready plant. Replanted a few more and they started growing .parsley is prolific
Umbel is the inflorescence you're dancing in the rain with.
I just found this channel and I love it so much
Thanks ! Now I know have to save parsley seeds!
Fascinating stuff. I wonder if this will work for chervil? This year I tried something new and grew chervil from seed, using heirloom seeds. It's very similar to parsley (somtimes nicknamed "French parsley"), but I might have to wait another year until it bolts.
THANK YOU!!! I’m new to gardening but I’ve had a potted Parsley plant for 2yrs that’s got a large flower stalk on it with multiple flower head branch things on it. Only recently learned I can get seeds from it!! I’ve recently gotten tiny mylar bags & O2 absorbers so I can store seeds long term as my new plants seed & also buying & storing them long term… I’m shocked by how many seeds came out of that one flower head!!! 😃😃 That’s amazing & has me very excited!!! 😃😃
BTW, will storing any kind of seeds in mini mylar bags, totally light blocking with a O2 absorber work for storing seeds long term? Or would a O2 absorber kill the seeds & should I do it without? O2 absorbers don’t kill off nutrients in foods, if anything it helps increase it but unsure if seeds are different? Would really appreciate your knowledge on it? 😁🙏
I was wondering why my parsley never seemed to flower... very informative
Very cool. You videos have gotten me to do more seed saving and I was wondering if you'd do one on radishes (next year obviously). I've done it a few times and though rewarding it's ... labour intensive to get all of the seeds our of the husks.
Great video! QUESTION: does it matter when saving seeds if the plant is a hybrid? Or doesn’t it matter with parsley?
After watching this video, I'm hoping my first year parsley will survive the winter. Since it's still growing in the cold I've been harvesting it for compost. I didn't know that it needed a second year to flower!
My flat leaf parsley produced seeds it’s first year. Is it annual and not like curly leaf parsley? Or did mine flower because I planted it early spring and we had snow/freeze?
First thing you need to grow parley is time.... pun? lol
Great seeds saving tips,,Thanks for sharing 👌👍😊
Very interesting, thank you! I just saved my first parsely seeds a few months ago. Who knows if they'll produce though😆
Super helpful!!! Thank you!
So, when you pull the plant up, do you pull it up by the roots or just cut it back? Are the leaves still ok to clip and use or not? Thank you in advance for responding.
How long does the seed keep for,and once dry can you keep them in the fridge to make them keep longer than they would just in a paper bag inside your cupboard
Cut the plant down after collecting seeds or pull it up from roots?
Do different types of parsley easily cross with other types of parsley? For example, if I have curly parsley next to flat leaf, will it end up cross breeding like a squash would?
It’s summer here in Australia and I’m waiting for mine to get to where I can harvest. Can I just drop the seeds directly back to the soil or do I have to do the whole drying process before I put it on the soil?
How long should you stop watering before harvesting the seeds?
Great video! I regret not saving seeds from my parsley now!
So, if none of the flowers actually produced seed the second year could you leave it and try again next year to get blooms, rather than pull the plant? Or how does that all work?
Seed saving is the key to farming
What does Thyme have to do with Parsley? :-)
Can you talk about how the de icer wires are working for you? Especially for seeds ....I'm thinking of doing that but was hoping to hear how it works so far first:)
Awesome video! Thanks Luke.
Hi Luke! I was wondering if bagging the flower with a mesh bag, or a light fabric bag, is a feasible technique to catch seeds. I'd be afraid I'd miss the perfect time, and the seeds would fall to the ground. The seeds are so tiny that I'd guess they can't practically be picked up out of the dirt. Thanks for your time!
What do you guys use parsley for? I got some seeds for my aerogarden. I got 3 plants to grow but they taste so bitter
Luke, if you let the parsley grow past 2 years will it continue to produce seed heads?
To anyone who may know: It’s mid July, and two of my parsley plants are huge and bolted a while ago. I ignored them, because I didn’t have time to figure out what to do, but now I need the space. They have flowers on them, but Luke is in winter in this video. Can I pull off the flowers?
It seems parsley follows me around and always put out a plant right by my back door, even in the winter! lol!
Loved this. Thank you!
How it become very big? I planted parsley in a garden bed 3months ago and its very little …. I don’t know how to take care of it and to make it bushy like yours
I have a question. I have a garden full of parsley that over grows every year. It drops the seed and there's a full garden of parsley every year. Is this OK to do?
If you leave the parsley plant alone will it reseed again? I know it's no longer worth eating, but will it continue to reliably produce viable seed? If so, why not just leave the parent plant alone and just keep harvesting it's seed year after year?
Just pulled all my two year old parsley 3 weeks ago.
tips for germinating parsley faster??
I live in tropical climate, it is never cold here. Will that affect seed production?
I am zone 10A, which is subtropical. My parsley goes to seed within the same year of planting, so I grow in the winter for the leaves as herb and it will go to seed with the hot temperatures of summer.
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i had a slew of swallow tail caterpillars eat all my parsley/seed before it matured this year. i apparently harvested a bunch of it right before the caterpillars hatched and they finished off what i left to go to seed.
Someone please help. My parsley has bolted and I wanted to collect the seed. But when I follow his advice all the seed just looks like granules of sand (not seed like the video) what’s going on? Have I done something wrong?
Thanx guys!!!
My celery flowered the first year
Ive got thyme so i should be ok next year then ;)
Lol much love xoxox
Great video, thanks
@MIgardener Do you know of a source where I can get , preferably, Japanese Black Pine seeds that are viable? I've had a couple of packets that I got from amazon (approx 200 seeds), some seemed viable after stratification but I've had no luck getting them to germinate. Any suggestions?
I've been trying this for about a year now.
Thanks.
Maybe try winter sowing them?
I had a parsley plant go to seed. I had 100’s of baby plants surrounding it.
Thanks for sharing
That’s cool, but I don’t think my parsley will flower coz I’ve been cutting them for garnish.😔 Thank you for sharing! ❤️
Where did you store your parsley seeds after drying them out (in the freezer is that a good place)? @migardener
we can eat parsley seeds?
Top video.
Do you have one on how to save "Beetroot" (Beets) seeds? :)
Cheers ears me ol mucker.
Has anyone ever asked about growing mushrooms from stalks, and is there a way to prevent it from taking over your garden
Excellent! Thanks!
Mine flowered in the 1 st year.
PERFECT! Thank You!
I have about a million baby parsley seedlings right now from our parsley self sowing! 😂
Why do you need thyme to save parsley seed?
Don't fear these times we are in, for there is hope.
The hope is in Christ Jesus,
And I encourage people to draw close to the Lord and Savior in these uncertain times.
And for the non beleivers to have an open mind
About having a relationship with their creator.
For God made you special and he loves you very much. 🤗
Are all his seeds heirloom?
yes
Cool thank you.
Love this!!! :D
Me and the wife love that bitterness! Lol
Its time
Holy cow that’s a ton of seeds, they’re so tiny
What?!? Both my parsley plants were just germinated about 2 months ago and they both went to flower already? If it is bi annual why is it flowering already?
I’m in New Hampshire for reference
I was saving broccoli seeds in Spring but the birds took all the seed pods before it ripens. LOL
I just asked Luke in this comment section if it's feasible to bag the flowers with mesh or fabric bags. This would protect from birds, and catch seeds instead of letting them fall to the ground, if you want to collect and save them. Watch for his answer - just look for my little cat icon (her name is Luna). Maybe Luke will also include his answer in a future video about seed gathering.Have a great day!
@@kele1264 it is from flowers and a very small pods up to close to mature green pods. Birds like it better than bokchoy pods
Oh I'm so early! Fun!
Liliana Roman I think you should have left it in the ground to overwinter outside. It you are concerned about BITTER COLD, then you could cover it with dry straw (hay tends to be seedy) and uncover it in spring. Parsley is surprisingly winter hardy if it has good drainage.
It's great to save seeds. If you plan to to use a certain seed you love to grow is there an actual advantage to using organic? The genetics would be the same. The only small advantages is the potential for harmful chemicals on the seeds themselves which are quite small. The food grown from them would be the same under the same conditions. I would rather eat organic mainly because of the lack of chemicals they are grown in and the fact they protect the soil which affects the plants and the environment. The seeds themselves, if they are the same cultivar, make a negligible difference.
The parsley seeds that l got from you did not flower. l brought it in to overwinter it and it died
You mean umbelliferae?
Strange, cause my parsley flowered about 3 months into it's first growing season.
Thanks , I thought my away , I thought there weeds ,
But I like buying seeds...lol
Hi first comment?
4th yay
My parsley is flowering in its first year. 🙄
That happened to me as well. I still haven't finished the video but I'd say I planted it on too-fertilized soil.
P.S.: the same happened with radishes. They went straight to flowering and didn't grow their "bulges" (you say it like that? I'm a Spanish speaker 😅).
6th
7 minutes into this before he actually showed how to harvest the seeds. 😢
Too much talking