The extent of his previous gardening experience had been growing parsley in a backyard plot when he was growing up on Long Island.
Musa's parsley suppliers, a family who have been growing parsley from their own seeds since 1909, recently asked him how they could go about making their product "organic".
I once had my own herb garden in which I grew parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
In the warm and wet north Florida climate, growing Italian parsley (Petroselinum crispum [Mill.]) is gaining popularity with small producers as a short duration crop on sandy soil.
Reportedly, you can find wild parsley growing there (Perejil means parsley in Spanish, an in-joke, apparently, because parsley is given free to Spaniards when they buy vegetables), and there is also a fine view of the craggy Moroccan coast, from which it is separated by 200 yards of water.
I shall also grow cow parsley there, the common and the dark form, Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'.
In addition, consideration should be given to the potential toxicity of ingestion of Parsley with allopathic medication with serotonin activity.
A waxed paper packet full of silvery Baltic herrings, small and slender; a basket full of tiny, first-crop new potatoes, with parchment-colored skin so thin you could rub it off with your fingers; and a profusion of dill, chives, parsley and basil growing in little pots.
They also took responsibility (right from the seed tray) for their own grow bags of strawberries, peppers, sweetcorn and parsley and were full of questions about how growing worked and how long it would take.
According to Parsley Health founder Robin Berzin, MD, all of these complaints could be early signs of autoimmune disease: a broad category of ailments that are plaguing a rapidly growing number of Americans, especially women.
