Leaf parsley Festival 68 | Herb seeds

Leaf parsley ‘Festival 68’ | Herb seeds

Are you looking for a productive leaf parsley with a full, fresh taste and an intense aroma? Then leaf parsley ‘Festival 68’ is an excellent choice. This mid-early, high-yielding variety does not form a thick root, but instead produces an abundance of smooth, deep green leaves. Ideal if you like to harvest often and enjoy fresh parsley leaves from your own garden or vegetable planter again and again.

Why choose ‘Festival 68’

‘Festival 68’ is known for its combination of high yield, reliable growth, and quick recovery after cutting. This allows you to harvest repeatedly throughout the season. The leaves are smooth, dense in structure, and especially aromatic. This makes this leaf parsley very suitable for fresh use, but also for drying and freezing.

• High-yielding, mid-early leaf variety
• Smooth, deep green, and fragrant leaves
• Grows steadily and recovers quickly after cutting
• Suitable for fresh consumption, drying, and freezing
• Strong variety with attractive foliage
• Can overwinter in open ground for an extra early spring harvest

Taste and use in the kitchen

Leaf parsley is a true classic in the kitchen. The taste of ‘Festival 68’ is fresh, herbaceous, and distinctly aromatic, without being overpowering. You can easily use it in salads, on sandwiches, in herb butter, pasta sauces, fillings, soups, and stews. Its aroma also comes through beautifully as a finishing touch over potatoes, grilled vegetables, or egg dishes.

Sowing and cultivation

Sow these herb seeds directly in open ground at a depth of about 1.5 to 2.5 cm. For a summer and autumn harvest, sow from March through May. The full growing period is about 100 to 110 days, although you can often start with the first cutting earlier. If you sow in July or August, the plant can overwinter in the ground and, in favorable weather, provide an early harvest again from mid-April.

This variety is suitable for overwintering in open ground and starts growing again early in the season. That makes ‘Festival 68’ attractive if you want to harvest fresh leaf parsley for as long as possible.

Storage advice

Store the seeds in a cool, dry, and dark place to preserve germination capacity as well as possible. After harvest, you can keep the leaves briefly in the refrigerator, or process them by drying or freezing so you can also enjoy their aromatic flavor later in the season.

Ingredients

Ingredients: seeds of leaf parsley ‘Festival 68’ (Petroselinum crispum).