Do you have some parsley plants from the last year that are growing in your garden?
And you're just not sure what to do with them in this video.
I'm going to show you how simple it is to save your parsley seed
Hi, this is Jeremy stock here from green thumb Ghana here to give you some tips tutorials and reviews for all your guarding needs in
today's video
I'm just going to show you a very simple way on what you need to do to save your parsley seeds now you may have
You may have planted parsley maybe a year a year ago and you might have noticed that
That when you let it overwinter
If you're in one of those areas that you can't have it over winter that it starts flowering because it's a biennial plant
So it does it does it doesn't flower each year, but every other year it will flower and reproduce for its seeds
So I'll go over a very simple way on how to do it what to look for what you need to do for it before
We get started
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So now that we get that other way, let's get right into it
but I wanted to show you guys the the best time to pick your
parsley seeds so
Here's what I did was I'd let this this particular plant
This is actually the parsley plant if you want you can see another video
I did that shows you what they look like when they're flowering. I'll put it up on here
It's actually on how to prune your parsley plants. You can just let the plant go
Like what I what I mean go is that you know you water it and do all you know, thanks to it
But eventually it's going to flower and you'll get the little tendrils and I'll show you just before it gets to this point
You can see it
So if the lighting is bad here but you can see that they're green like little pods right here
Those might not actually be ready to go to seed. You actually want to let them die out pretty much like this
they're gonna die out and they're gonna be very similar to this and all you do is
So what I do is I'll just snip off
One of them right here
okay, so
That's that's ultimately what you're looking for when you're actually gonna get when you're gonna get the plant
You want it to be just about completely dry in here?
so I'll take you inside and I'll show you exactly what I do for the next step so that you know what to do for
Saving the Parsee seeds. All right. So now that you've actually brought you've actually clipped a one of your parsley flower heads
You want to bring it inside cuz you you don't want to do this atleast
I would recommend doing outside but you want to bring it in and you actually are going to
We're gonna extract all the seeds from from this particular
flower itself
Now the ones that the flower heads that I grabbed they were they were a little dry. I
Tend to go for these particular ones more than the ones that aren't as try
But because I know that they're definitely ready for seed
So I would select the ones that you do find on there that are dry one thing
I also didn't mention before is the seeds the actual plant itself
Should be an open pollinated or an animal
of parsley and that
That ensures that the that the seeds that you grow from this particular batch
Will grow into the same type of parsley plants that you do have if you're not really sure about that, you know
That's okay, but just be aware that
What happens with seeds that aren't open pollinated is?
You're kind of playing a guessing game as to which you know what it's gonna look like and and all the other properties of it
Again, if you're not really sure you can still do this and you know
what I would do recommend at that point is to grow a bunch of different plants and just make sure that
You know as it's starting to grow it's a little seedling or a little bit a little plant before you plant it out that it
Looks similar to what the one that you had. Um, so now that we get that out of the way
Let me show you the exact things that I do, you know for this so that you can see it up close
All right
so the other things that I did mention that I didn't mention that you want to also have is some type of I
Use some type of envelope. These are just coin I
think they're just like little Bank coin envelopes, you buy a huge stack of these and you probably never
There's so many of them in the box that I got, but I just like them because you can write on obviously, right?
you know what the
Type of parsley planet is and has to write the year on that's big
that's the basic information that would write on there what I'm saving the seat just so you know, which one it is and
So so as I said before is that you want to make sure that these are completely dry
so what I do is I
Take a piece of white paper because it's a little bit easier to just do this
You can also use like one of those paper plates. You want to kind of rub the flower head itself
so that all the little
seeds are gonna fall down as they may
So I just do this very gently
Until I get pull them down on here
This is what my favorite parts growing it's it's really one of those
Seats eating that's just one of those those tests. I love to do every year. I guess I get really excited
of course about the whole process of growing right from seed and
But I also enjoy this part here because I feel like I'm leaving something a legacy on and I feel like I'm just
Contributing to something greater than myself. I don't know
Call me one of those romantic
gardeners I guess but
It's just one of those tasks. I love to do
No matter what vegetable or herb is I love having an abundance of these seeds that I can plant next year
The other thing I can do with your seeds is there's different groups. Maybe on Facebook or you can live online that
That you can exchange the seeds with with other people. So if you are looking for a particular variety of a plant and you
Have an abundance of say, you know parsley seeds
You can just trade, you know, you can actually just put your particular seeds up for for grabs and some people
You know request to have them for you
So it's a great way to you know, meet people - I guess because some people really are really into that
They write letters and they tell a little story about their seeds and it's just a great way of just sharing
I mean in this day and age, you know, I love Facebook and YouTube and all those other social media sites
But just just being lighter connects with somebody through the mail and you know something that they worked on
It really just it's just one of those cool things that that you can do to
to connect with other people
All right, so you have all the seeds that are
Separate now that here's the thing is these seeds are gonna come they're gonna actually come in here with a lot of other
What they call chafe
just other flower parts that
That you'll find in there
Now there's different various methods that you can you know, you can just kind of blow on it
And usually the seeds are a little bit heavier, so they don't they might not blow off
You can use a fan and basically what you're doing is you're dropping
your you're dropping the seeds and the fan is blowing the shape, which is usually the hardest part but I
I mean, I don't I mean depending on how many you have and how many you want to keep you know?
You might want to just grind it but these are this is probably the best way that I do
as I just I actually could pick through it because you can see the seeds they're very
distinctive in here there
And I'll see if I can get a collection of the seeds so you can actually see what they look like
When I have a bunch of them together
The Parsee seeds, they they're very mean. They're obviously very small, but they have a
Kind of like a black mark and then a lighter
Coating on the outer coating of it. So they're they're pretty noticeable
when they're at this point and
they're very hard to the other thing is they're they're really like
You know, you can't really push them in too much
So I'm gonna show you these just a few of the ones that I just picked out
So you can kind of get an idea of what they look like
I'm not sure we can see that. Let me make sure the camera here
There we go around there
It's probably not gonna be able to see great but they're they're very noticeable is the little seeds there. They're like little pods and
All they do is I just separate all the material that came off of them and I just put them all into a little pile
So so with the magic of video editing
I'll I'll do this whole thing and you can see it see it after it's done the whole pile
So they have it the the seeds have been pretty much separated I
The drier it is the easier it is to handle and to get everything along you can let it you know
you can pull this off the the flower I
Would wait till it's mostly dry
but I usually just let it go really dry as
We had on these and it's just so much easier to do as you can
see
It's very easy to get a good supply of
parsley seeds from just saving the flower heads the saving the seeds from the flower heads that have
Dried up on your privacy plan and just a reminder of parsley plants are biennial plants
Meaning that they will only flower every other year. So if you plant one
One year, you may not see any flowering heads until they overwinter the next year also
We do have a video if if you do have a bunch of parsley and you're not sure
You know how to trim it
I do have another video that I'll post a link up above as well so that you can take a look at that video
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