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I have found that soaking and bottom heat, just like for peppers REALLY speeds up parsley germination. Now this part is a pain-in-the-butt but if you "score" the individual seeds with an emery board (Just rub a spot on them to skiff the coating) you will get much better germination, but it is tedious filing on all of the seeds! I persoanlly have a large patch of parsley and I always let about a third of it re-seed and it comes back just fine (I do grab the tops where seeds are and kind of rub the heads between my hands at the end of the year.)