herbs

R mentioned herbs
in pots is great...

you don't need a lot of room..depends on how many different ones you want to grow
my experience is that they do not like to be fertilized..with anything
the worse state the dirt is in the higher the essential oil in the herb which makes it stronger
but if you want fast growth..use good soil and some compost working into the soil

i wanted an herb garden soooo bad.. we have a tiny piece of ground between the sidewalk and the patio ..it was a ****to mow..
so i started by going round the maple tree that is there and then just kept on going


a view of most of it from the library window...the bricks were free and i cleaned and placed everyone..i didn't start out with a pattern
but i think it turned out pretty good...my main reason was so i could pick herbs in the morning without getting my feet wet..




i have moved most of the herbs to a different spot and an using this as a kitchen garden..but some of the permenant ones are the chives and parsley
the chives i cut down right after the snow cleared ..they will continue to grow and if you do not pick the flowers they will spread

and the parsley i also cut..yesterday i scratched in a package of new seeds i lost the old parsley in a move from another little patch
parsley will grow two to three years before going to seed and there are several different kinds

i let it got to seed and shake the seeds onto that patch and then pull out the old plants as they die..new shoots for no cost




don't be afraid to grow around where you are living..almost any small spot will be just fine
good luck

I love the layout Sky!

The Otter Mandalla herb garden !

I love your set up too sky!

I can think of about 8 herbs already to start growing. 2 more weeks till I settle in the new house then the fun begins.

speaking of herbs....
i was so inspired by our otter that today i went
outside and planted - well, sowed seeds....
i didn't take pictures, i will if anything grows...
i walked the property and found 5 separate spots
where the afternoon sun shines and the trees protect
from wind, as well as the ground being soft enough
to dig - as i chose these spots, it was important that
no one be able to spot them easily from the road(s)
or the air... i dug the holes, loosened the soil within
them and scattered seeds, then covered them with dirt
and watered from a gallon jug - voila!
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anyone guess what kind of herb i sowed?

mmmm... that's a tricky one hipster



Let's hope you get a lot of females

Reunite wrote:

mmmm... that's a tricky one hipster



Let's hope you get a lot of females

R, I don't get this hon, but then I dont know much about that herb, although the older son has decades of experience with it. Mmmmh.

Leaves are very little in THC so you want the buds to get really

Female plants harvest buds.

The male plants only flower, they don't bud

and, in the further education of our mz biggz, more details....
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biggs, after the seeds sprout and get grown a little, you examine
them and you can see that the "male" plants have little balls
where stems come off main branch and the "females" have little
hairs .... you rip the males out of the ground before they can develop
and would be able to pollinate the female flowers (buds) .... because,
as our FL says, the buds are what getya mellow, the leaves are kinda
useless - and when the female plants get "frustrated" cuz she can't
have any pollen, she makes her buds even more potent ......
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gosh i love the way mother nature works!

Geez, I didn't have a clue about any of that, thanks.

oh you guys..

here's the parsley and chives today..
days difference
not visible on the pic but visible to the eye are little pasleys
i sprinkled some parsley seed in the parsley patch and just scratched it in
and it is coming up
i also took out some chive clumps and gave them to a friend

I love to gardening and eating herbs, actually i follow healthy lifestyle because i know these herbs gives you real health, food like carbohydrates these things just make you fat nothing else.

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You have a wonderful ability to grow things Sky otter,awesome, I love your work. I too like eating the herbs Mrs. M.