{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "record_type": "plant",
  "slug": "parsley",
  "common_name": "Parsley",
  "botanical_name": "Petroselinum crispum",
  "family": "Apiaceae",
  "summary": "Parsley is a cool-tolerant biennial culinary herb with slow-germinating seed, a deep root and repeated outer-stem harvests before second-year flowering.",
  "categories": [
    "culinary herb",
    "cool-season crop",
    "container crop"
  ],
  "growth_habits": [
    "curly-leaf",
    "flat-leaf"
  ],
  "lifecycle": "Biennial, usually grown for first-year leaves",
  "difficulty": "Easy",
  "requirements": {
    "light": {
      "minimum_direct_sun_hours": 4,
      "preferred_direct_sun_hours": 6
    },
    "soil_ph": {
      "minimum": 5.5,
      "maximum": 7.0
    },
    "container": {
      "minimum_volume_litres": 5,
      "minimum_diameter_cm": 20,
      "plants_per_container": 1
    },
    "spacing": {
      "minimum_cm": 15,
      "maximum_cm": 25
    },
    "planting_out": {
      "minimum_reliable_temperature_c": 5,
      "frost_tolerant": true,
      "label": "Sow or plant",
      "note": "Established plants tolerate light frost and may overwinter"
    },
    "harvest": {
      "typical_uk_months": [
        "May",
        "November"
      ]
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "rhs-growing-parsley",
      "publisher": "Royal Horticultural Society",
      "url": "https://www.rhs.org.uk/herbs/parsley/grow-your-own",
      "supports": [
        "types",
        "sowing",
        "spacing",
        "containers",
        "harvest",
        "bolting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "umn-growing-parsley",
      "publisher": "University of Minnesota Extension",
      "url": "https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden/growing-parsley",
      "supports": [
        "indoor_growing",
        "soil",
        "water",
        "feeding",
        "harvest"
      ]
    }
  ]
}