"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:43:38 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>>> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:40:30 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
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>>>>"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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>>>>> Herbs do best on my kitchen sink surround. There is very little space
>>>>> that will work for this. As soon as a plant gets bigger they have to
>>>>> be moved. I've been using my 2 rosemary plants in lieu of a Christmas
>>>>> tree the last several years. With the advent of those itty bitty
>>>>> battery powered lights it's no problem lighting them. The rosemary
>>>>> does suffer towards the end of winter with limited light.
>>>>> Janet US
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>>>>I tried growing them in my kitchen garden window. Just gets too cold in
>>>>the
>>>>winter and hot in the summer.
>>>
>>> But you have a yard... and it doesn't get so cold where you live that
>>> parsley won't survive outdoors in winter. Here it gets down to -20º
>>> and lower in winter and parsley actually survives under the snow.
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>>The parsley that I grew outdoors did die off in the winter but it also
>>reseeded itself.
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> It didn't die... parsley is a biennial, it will grow again the second
> year, some reseeds and some is second year growth. Second year
> parsley tastes bitter so I always plant new. The most a family needs
> is six plants, I put in four plants and it produces much more than I
> can use

Ah, okay. But a lot of the seeds did drop down under my deck and I had a
huge parsley crop down there. I only bought a 10 cent packet of seeds. Got
tons.