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🌱🌸Witchy Garden Project🌸🌱
Parsley
Perfect to plant during Imbolc season (February)
How to Grow
- Parsley likes either sun or part shade
- It prefers cool environment
- Use moist soil with organic material
- Soak seeds in water for 12-24 hours for germination
- Use 1 or 2 seeds per pellet or container in a tray. When more than one grows thin out to one.
- Deposit the seed ¼” deep as much.
- Cover the seeds with soil and press it with your finger so the soil gets in contact with the seed.
- Use gentler sprays of water
- Cover the tray with a plastic lid to keep moisture.
- Germination can take up to 14-28 days.
- Doesn’t like to be transplanted.
Health Properties
- Antioxidant (flavonoids)
- Diuretic and helps combat Urinary infections.
- Improves digestion and bowel movement helps with constipation, gas, and bloating.
- Antibacterial, Antifungal for Detox.
- Anti-inflammatory (magnesium)
- Coagulant helps with conditions like Anemia, and Diabetes (Vitamin K, Iron)
- Skin problems (Vitamin A)
- Bad breath
- Balance hormones
Magic Properties
Planet: Mercury
Element: Air (masculine)
With its ethereal masculine energy, parsley was used in ancient times at funerals and death rituals, to enable communication with the other side and easing the departed’s path through death; and also used as a meditation and divination enhancer. In modern times is known to attract vitality or the pure energy of life into yours.
- Lust, vitality
- Good luck
- Purification
- Protection
- Reincarnation
- Health, strength
- Spiritual Communication