Original post from Tiny Farm Blog
Three weeks old, and the parsley is already well past its seed leaf stage, where everyone pretty much looks the same, and is busy expressing its true nature. On the left, Green Pearl, a curly variety, starting to pucker and…curl. On the right, Hilmar, of the generally stronger-tasting flat-leaf type.
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Original post from Mother Earth’s Garden.
If you’d like to pick your own fresh herbal teas out of your garden this summer, now is the perfect time to start planning. Here are a few plants you should add to your garden plan if you’d like to grow your own tea. Some of them would work great in container gardens, others would grow better right in the garden.
I’ll profile each of these herbs in a little more detail over the next few days, but for now here are some of my favorite herbs for herbal teas.
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Original post from Gardeners’ Tips
Bees Flies, and Wasps all display their liking for the nectar from this Sedum spectabile. Insects are attracted by colour, fluorescence and iridescence and by pollen which gives them proteins and fat. Scent is not the main attraction for Bees in the following selection of plants that you can grow to help the Bee population
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Original post from Mother Earth’s Garden.
Check out these herb scissors from Lehman’s. I saw these this morning and I think they’d be really useful for anyone who loves to cook with fresh herbs. I think I’ll have to get a pair myself.
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Original post from Tiny Farm Blog, May 08, 2008
It’s right in the middle of the spring garden rush, for sure. but we’re in that little lull of sorts between direct seeding and transplanting the hardy and cool-soil-germinating crops (brassicas, peas, carrots, lettuce, etc) and waiting on temperature to transplant the more tender guys (tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, cucurbits). This year, for the last three weeks or so, we’ve been cooler by a few degrees than recent Mays, both days and nights, which slows things down a bit more, as I don’t see an advantage in planting out some of the tender stuff early by a week or two, since the extra growth probably wouldn’t add up to much. Sooo, there’s more time now—a longer lull—to concentrate on the kinda B-iist crops (I don’t like putting it that way, but for practical purposes, well, some ARE more important to the overall market garden than others…). That means the herbs and flowers are getting great extra attention: earlier planting, dividing established growths of sage, thyme, oregano, much needed weeding… Today, I did the parsley.
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Original post from Veggie Gardening Tips, May 04, 2008
A recent article discussed a problem with lettuce and other vegetable plants bolting and going to seed prematurely, but flowering is just a part of the natural cycle of things out in the veggie patch. A look around the back yard revealed quite a few edible plants that are bolting and flowering, but for the most part it’s not a problem if it occurs at the proper time and shouldn’t be taken as a sigh of something gone wrong. Here’s just a sampling of all the vegetable seed factories currently in production out in the garden: Kale - This one is at the top of my list and I frequently refer to it as mock broccoli.
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Original post from Life In Sugar Hollow, April 18, 2008
Chocolate mint iced tea. Steph's Meadow Tea. Mojitos. Mint juleps. All are within reach if you have a somewhat sunny spot and a container to host a mint plant or two. Mints will even come up year-after-year within a planter. With little to-do. And, when all is said and done, you'll be happier that you kept them in the container garden - as they can be very invasive within the regular garden patch. I grow Kentucky Colonel mint (perfect for all cocktails), chocolate mint and apple mint.
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