growing parsley from seed

[midnightexpress]

I'm growing some herbs from seed for window boxes and pots in my courtyard. So far I have parsley and oregano, both of which have sprouted successfully and are in modules. Also planning chives and coriander (will prbably cheat with teh basil and thyme and separate out from supermarket pots. As the oregano is so teeny, I'm planning to treat the contents of a module as one plant for potting on purposes, but what should I do about the parsley? At the moment, I've thinned it out so that there are about 2-3 seedlings per module, but what do I do now? Should I thin them further to one per module, or pot on singly or in groups of 2-3 in a pot? They're still pretty small (sprouted about 2 weeks ago, just starting their first true leaves).

Thanks for any advice, oh wise ones.

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the parsley in the supermarket seems to have lots of plants per pot so would just leave as a clump. I have flat leaf parsley and have lots of seeds in each pot.

I never bother thinning out herbs. Might be the wrong thing to do but it doesn't seem to do them any harm.

Blimey...me on a Gardening thread! I'm the worlds worst gardener/plant grower but, but...I am GROWING HERBS too!

My Flat Leaf Parsley has sprouted but my ordinary parsley looks a bit anaemic and my Mint and Thyme don't look like they want to do anything at all.

I'm also growing coriander, chives, basil, and dill and they're all growing great guns.

All mine in their own little pots

Ooh, thanks for your answers folks. I had given up hope. I now have a mixture of individually potted teeny parsleys and two or three to a pot ones. I shall conduct a trial and post my findings in due course .

It's rather thrilling isn't it TsarChasm? I got inordinately excited the other night when I tasted one of the incy-wincy parsley seddlings and it tasted of...parsley! I don't know what I was expecting, but it just seemed so small to be full of parsley flavour already.

Parlsey can grow in clumps of two or three plants, or you can grow it in singles. The supermarket stuff is basically a handful of seeds regularly drenched in water and liquid feed intended for a short life. Presumably you want to keep your parsley going so you are right to have separated it out a bit. I grow parsley and coriander in old wine boxes. Parsley I suppose there are at least a dozen plants per box; coriander far more. Needs quite a lot of water to keep it lush. Basil is pretty similar. They all need to be treated as a crop, not a single plant.

Oregano and thyme are different - they are long lasting plants so they won't respond well to being crushed in to a pot. They also need less water and not-too-lush a compost.

Thanks for that MTA - that's very helpful. So the oregano and thyme should go into the garden rather than even a big pot, if I understand you?

Argh.