I like and grow parsley for it's flavor and as a garní. The most recent batch is progressing slowly. Since I have been using the same pot and soil forever I wonder it it is time to fertilize. I bottom water the pot. I have a TDS meter and a source of rainwater. I read somewhere on this forum the TDS concentration but can't find it. For liquid fertilization what concentration do I need? Thanks.
Growing parsley in a plant pot
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bonehead
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it depends what brand of meter you have. do you have a conversion chart? are you running recycling or run to waste?
It is an HM Digital and reads directly in ppm.. As examples my well water reads 92 ppm and my rain water reads 1 ppm. I have no conversion chart. The water is not circulating. It sits in the tray under the pot until is is adsorbed. This has worked well for the last 10 or 15 years till now. The parsley just grows and grows. Some people say it will get bitter but I have never noticed it.
squeezyjohn
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I've grown a lot of parsley and I've never heard of anyone taking that kind of attention to detail with it ... it just grows!
I just sprinkle the seeds on the ground in a slightly shaded place and make sure it keeps wet if there are extended dry periods. The old wives tale round here is to plant it under a tap so every time you use the tap it drips on the plant. It bolts to flower around midsummer and when it's too dry so best to plant in late May or early June and then it will grow and give you leaves through to autumn and will overwinter to give loads of leaves in the spring the next year too.
If you like parsley I would really recommend looking up Hamburg Parsley or Root Parsley which gives an abundance of leaves throughout the season and at the end of it all you have a nice tasty root vegetable to dig up too - really nice roasted up like a parsnip.
I just sprinkle the seeds on the ground in a slightly shaded place and make sure it keeps wet if there are extended dry periods. The old wives tale round here is to plant it under a tap so every time you use the tap it drips on the plant. It bolts to flower around midsummer and when it's too dry so best to plant in late May or early June and then it will grow and give you leaves through to autumn and will overwinter to give loads of leaves in the spring the next year too.
If you like parsley I would really recommend looking up Hamburg Parsley or Root Parsley which gives an abundance of leaves throughout the season and at the end of it all you have a nice tasty root vegetable to dig up too - really nice roasted up like a parsnip.
bonehead
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every meter is not the same. if you use rain water or ro water (reverse osmosis) your # will be sigifignantly lower because your water is lacking a lot of elements found in ground and city water. your plants don't need salt but it is in most municipal water. you need to read the starting point of your water to know where you stand, if it is to high use different water. in southington i have a ro system, the biggest problem is acumilated salts. do you ever flush your soil or grow medium to get rid of salts? plants don't like salts. there are some products that will help you flush your soil,medium but you can usually just run a lot of water through your medium to flush the system. the ppm meter system conversion sucks because they measure electrical conductivity and every element registers differently on everyones scale. do you have salt ,nitrogen,trace elements ect. thats why in hydroponics you change out the fluid because you don't know what the plants used and what is building up to a toxic level. flush you cant go wrong . don't let the plants drink the flushed water let it go whereever.
BigBonner said for tobacco in float trays he goes to 9 for Burley and 7.5 for the other varieties. Next year change your dirt since you don't know which crops to rotate.
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