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nice! I let my Italian parsley get huge, too, lots of new seeds for next year, and the next year, and the next year....
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A healthy parsley plant that's "bolting", or going to seed. The edible foliage gets a little bitter at this point but is it is useful in attracting pollinators. Parsley is a biennial, meaning it only lives two summers. The second summer, it will start to produce flowering stems which elongate and reach for the sun, to attract pollinating insects. These insects are part of the beneficial "insect patrol"; they consume more damaging insects, often the ones feeding on your ornamentals and vegetables. Other biennials include fennel and carrots--in a healthy garden, it's a good idea to let some of these go to seed to attract those beneficial insects, keeping your garden insect populations in good balance. Don't pull them out till they've completely played their full role in your garden. Annuals to include for Insect Patrol are Ami majus (false Queen Anne's lace), cosmos, coreopsis, zinnias, marigolds, Mexican sunflower (tithonia), cilantro, dill, lettuce, mustard; perennials are feverfew, anise, nasturtium, Verbena bonariense, rudbeckia (black-eyed susan).
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