Todd wrote:

My second year Italian Parsley looks really weird.

Parsley is a biennial. Its 2nd year growth usually looks different
and doesn't taste as good (generally somewhat bitter). You'd do
better planting new seed each year, or follow the directions here for
how to harvest seed:
http://www.howtogardenadvice.com/pla...w_parsley.html
I grow curly leaf parsley, I think it tastes better than flat leaf,
it's sweeter... eaten raw I prefer the curly leaves, in cooking I use
the curly leaf stems. If you want to grow parsley for its roots then
leave the best of your 2nd year plants and plant new parsley
elsewhere... if you allow parsley to reseed in place that's very
sloppy gardening as you'll not know which are new and which are 2nd
year plants... farmers rotate their parsley crop to a different field
each year.