@Stephie: just to make sure I understand correctly, you mean to just pick the leave with the directly adjacent "Stiel" but not damage the "Hauptstiel"?
@Huy this is one single parsley plant. I pick whole leaves down to the central "Herz". If you just pick the leaf at the top - which is ok - you are left with bare sticks, first green, then slowly drying. Parsley has composite leaves (Fiederblätter), so e.g. the whole thingy from the root towards my thumb is one leaf.
@rumtscho thanks, foot is mostly fine. Today is the last day of the Pentecost break, so it's back to school prep and some gardening. There are a few tomatoes that need to go into the ground and a lot of weeding. The recent rain gave everything a boost...
@VitaminC Awwwww! What a shame - I must have missed you by mere minutes. Feel free to pop in here whenever you like, there's often quite a nice crowd here. (I won't be here for a while right now, perhaps another time.) Welcome!