Hi Mallow, looks like no-one is having problems. My parsley comes and goes fairly rapidly, with use and bolting, but it self seeds and new ones come on all the time. A few plants at various stages means I don't miss one when it goes to pot.

I find mine tends to be a bit bi-ennieal??
one year it grows fantastic (I let it self seed) and the next year it does the same as yours. i have a good year this time. Last year I pulled up the plant roots and all and sprinkled it around the garden beds this way I got several plants come up. Sure enough some are lovely and healthy and others have gone straight to head.
Cheers Mrs B

You can tell i'm new to parsley! Actually I haven't had a garden for more than ten years so it's all a bit of an experiment but a lot of fun - I just love to garden. I'll take a look for self seeded plants under the poppies and the delphiniums and see whether I can encourage them to grow...

My italian parsely bolted as soon as it could grow mature leaves, about 3 months after I grew it from seed! Have no idea why...i gave it lots of nitrogen and transplanted it??? maybe it affected it?

I haven't had trouble with parsley. But it is a biennial so will die in its second year. It will bolt to seed if transplanted. Seeds should be sown in situ for best results. It will also bolt to seed if you overfeed it - it sort of makes it age faster. And it doesn't like a lot of heat, so since i'm in a hot area, I keep mine shaded most of the day. Inconsistent watering may hasten the seed stems to form. Don't let it dry out between waterings.

I have plenty of dwarf triple curly parsleys and I welcome parsleys cuz black swallowtails lay eggs on them and those caterpillars eat them to become butterflies after cocoons. More colorful butterflies, the better in my yard.
I move any to a container with other herb plants or other flowerbeds.

My parsley never grows where I pop the seeds. I have a single standerd iceberg rose, and each year without fail there the parsley grows! The rose and the parsley must like each other!