Are you looking for some tips on how to prune your herbs such as parsley and oregano in this video
We're going to show you how to prune your parsley and oregano plants in your garden
Hi, this is Jeremy stark here from green thumb gardener here to give you some tips tutorials and reviews for all your gardening needs and
Today's video I'm gonna show you how to prune your parsley plants and your regular plants if you're like me
you may have left your your parsley and oregano plants in the garden from last year and
By now before you start planting everything you may have discovered that the bush has just gotten really big
so in today's video
I really just wanted to show you some very simple ways on how to care for your your parsley plants and your regular plants or
Even any other kind of herbs that you may have that that may have overwintered from the previous season?
I will show you I'll just show you some really simple tips
The other thing too is is I'm actually going to show you a video
My parsley plant is actually going to seed very soon
Probably the next month or so as the weather starts warming up a little bit
It is starting to bud right now and I'll show you those when I'm doing this video
But I'm also gonna do in another video on how to save parsley seeds and if when the video is ready, I'll post it
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All right
so really the only thing that you really need to be aware of you have to have
To do this you have to have some kind of
cutting shears
It doesn't really matter which ones you have
You know
The smaller one's a little bit easier to use they they have a little better grip. I think than some of the large ones
But you know as long as you have some shears
You don't really you don't think you don't want to do is you don't want to actually pull them out because then if you want
To keep the plant you're gonna damage what's in there already?
So what I like to do is just basically just really get in there and you want to look for
The stems that are coming up and you just want to cut them as far down
Towards where the plant comes in from the bay
So on my plant I'm gonna do right down where it comes in through the cinder block part of it
So let's show you I'll show you exactly how that's done
I
If now if I wasn't if basically if I wasn't gonna save these four seeds what I would probably do is just cut off
just about all the big flower stalks and
You know, you can still use the posse leaves but what happens is when the plant actually goes goes through a flowering part
all the energy is directed from
Not from growing kind of the leaves and everything. It's more directed into the actual flowers and
producing its offspring
so what happens is sometimes the the taste of
What you're harvesting might change like for if it's a fruit or of different vegetable the you know
The fruit of vegetable will actually taste different
Sometimes it's a little bit more bitter
I'll be honestly, I don't remember what if there's difference in the taste and the pressure but I get a night
Let me just try it right now and I'll let you know so
It does have a little bit more of a
Kind of a little softer bitterness, but it's not
Overpoweringly bitter so it's a little bit soft or subtle flavor to it. At least that's in my opinion of what it tastes
So you can actually still I'm actually gonna still
harvest these these leaves right here and
Actually did another video if you wanted to take a look on how to dry herbs for that you get from your garden
So I'll post a I'll post a card up here. I think it's on this side
I'll postcard up there and let you and you know, so you get link to that particular video, but you know
you really don't have to I mean you can leave it just as it is and you can collect all the seeds from it and
You can still harvest it, but it just in my case
I just cut it down as much as I can because I don't want it to get into the other garden when I'm having some
my other
Plants growing on there and I want it to be a little bit under control
but also the other thing you could do it another tip for you is
You know kind of keep keep at it, you know
If you're in the garden and you notice that it's starting to get a little bit out of control
You can really get in there and just kind of trim it up a little bit as long as there's some sections of the lead
usually a good
Use your good reference is to kind of keep a third of the plant
That's still viable and has you know some leaves so that it can continue to grow
That's really pretty safe. If you do that for for processing, it's a pretty Hardy
You know herb so it's gonna it's gonna keep coming back. In fact, I might even after this video
I might even just kind of cut this up a little bit more
But I think I'm gonna wait till maybe after I plant my other vegetables
But the same thing also applies I have I have a mint plant down there. And also I have an oregano
Plant as well
So I'm gonna basically do the same thing for both of those
especially the mint one the mint one just really
Really comes in pretty strong when if you leave it in there and it just it just really flourishes
the same as well goes for the oregano the oregano I'm gonna
Yeah, it gets a little bit woody in there with the with the particular of those plants
so you basically I go all the way down to where the base of it is and then I cut it from there very
Similar to what you do for the parts?
Hopefully that helped you so that you're able to care for your parsley plant, but stay tuned
I'll have the other video when June comes and I'll show you exactly how to save these seeds from
From just from the flower stalks that you do get please. Give us a green thumbs up
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