Parsley · Mariupol, Donetsk, Ukraine
When to plant parsley in Mariupol
Main outdoor window
12 Mar - 2 Apr
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
26 March
In Mariupol, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
21 May - 10 Jun
If you plant at the start of the window.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Mariupol
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Start indoors
29 Jan - 19 Feb
Eight weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Sow for overwintering
11 Jul - 1 Aug
Counting back 104 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.
Sow direct
12 Mar - 2 Apr
Two weeks before your last frost.
Plant out
12 Mar - 2 Apr
Two weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
21 May - 10 Jun
Parsley through the year
Against the frost risk in Mariupol
Why these dates
Germination takes three to four weeks. Sow indoors eight weeks before last frost or direct once soil warms; either way, patience is required.
Survives -10C and often overwinters to produce an early spring crop before running to seed in its second year.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Parsley are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Mariupol.
The median frost-free season here is 233 days, against 70 to 90 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Growing parsley in Mariupol
When should I plant parsley in Mariupol?
Aim for 12 Mar - 2 Apr in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 20 Mar - 10 Apr - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will parsley be ready to harvest in Mariupol?
Expect to start picking around 21 May - 10 Jun, based on 70 to 90 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will parsley tolerate?
Survives -10C and often overwinters to produce an early spring crop before running to seed in its second year.