PARSLEY SEEDS GIGANTE D'ITALIA, 6g

A high-quality, medium-early, and exceptionally high-yielding smooth-leaf parsley variety that delights gardeners and culinary enthusiasts worldwide with its immense vigor, excellent aroma, and generous leaf harvest. Gigante d'Italia (Giant of Italy) is a legendary parsley variety, highly valued by professionals, intended for reliable and large-scale cultivation in open fields and greenhouses. The plant forms an impressive, strong, tall, and exceptionally bushy rosette of leaves with large, smooth, triangular leaves of a rich dark green color. This variety stands out in the garden with excellent resistance to adverse weather conditions, great winter hardiness, and lightning-fast regrowth after cutting. Agrimatco's generous and economical 6-gram bulk pack guarantees excellent seed quality, high germination energy, and an abundant herb harvest for the entire season.

• Everyday home cooking and gourmet dishes: An ideal choice for preparing soups, sauces, vegetable and meat stews, as well as fresh salads and marinades, providing a classic and full flavor to your food.
• Homemade pesto, herb butter, and sauces: Thanks to its smooth texture and large leaf volume, this variety is the best choice for making homemade parsley pesto, chimichurri sauces, and aromatic herb butter.
• Large winter stores and freezing: The generous 6-gram package provides a huge harvest, perfect for chopping and storing leaves in the freezer or drying, as this variety perfectly retains its vibrant color and aroma.
• Commercial growers and market sales: An excellent choice for those who grow herbs for sale – the parsley grows long, heavy, bushy, and retains its freshness and excellent marketable appearance for a long time after harvesting.

• Impressive and gigantic leaf size: Unlike common parsley, this variety forms much larger, wider, and fleshier leaves on long, strong stems, ensuring maximum green mass volume.
• Distinctly intense and rich aroma: The smooth leaf structure contains a very large amount of essential oils, providing a much stronger, more expressive, and fuller parsley flavor than curly varieties.
• Phenomenal regeneration rate: After complete or partial leaf cutting, the bush quickly regenerates and, in a short time, grows a new, equally bushy and heavy rosette, allowing for multiple harvests per season.
• Excellent winter hardiness and resistance to yellowing: The plant overwinters perfectly in the Latvian climate in the open field and provides the very first juicy greens in early spring of the next year, and also steadily resists premature leaf yellowing.
• Excellent seed germination and vigor: Agrimatco seeds undergo strict selection and testing, guaranteeing strong germination power and uniform, dynamic development of young seedlings in the bed.

• Product type: Smooth-leaf parsley variety seeds for open fields and greenhouses.
• Brand: Agrimatco.
• Variety: Gigante d'Italia (Giant of Italy).
• Maturity time: Medium-early variety, produces continuously and in waves throughout the season.
• Plant appearance: Tall, extremely strong and lush rosette with large, smooth, dark green leaves.
• Weight in package: 6 grams (large bulk package).

• Soil selection and preparation: Parsley thrives best in fertile, deeply cultivated, loose, humus-rich, and sufficiently moist sandy loam or clay soil. Neutral pH (6.5–7.0) is preferable. Before sowing, carefully dig over the bed, enrich it with compost, and thoroughly clear it of weeds.
• Sowing times and depth: Sow seeds outdoors in early spring (April/May) or mid-summer (July) for autumn and next year's spring harvest. Sow seeds approximately 1–1.5 cm deep, maintaining a distance of 20–30 cm between rows. Tip for accelerating germination: Parsley seeds naturally germinate relatively slowly (up to 2–3 weeks) due to their essential oil content. To speed up germination, it is recommended to soak the seeds in warm water for 24 hours before sowing and then gently dry them. After germination, thin the seedlings, leaving a distance of 5–8 cm between plants.
• Care and watering: Ensure regular and consistent watering, especially during dry and hot summer weather, to prevent the leaves and stems from becoming tough and losing their juiciness. It is recommended to regularly loosen the soil and weed the beds.
• Harvesting: Pick or cut leaves gradually as needed throughout the summer and autumn. When harvesting greens, be sure to protect the central young shoots of the rosette so that the plant continues to successfully grow new leaves.

📦 Storage:
Store seeds in a dry, cool, and dark place in their original and tightly sealed packaging until sowing. Protect from moisture and direct sunlight.