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[Dunamisdeos]

It was the hardest, but only relatively. It's growing fine now, even though it's just a sprout.

Best part about rosemary is it turns into quite the hardy bush. I've got friends whose rosemary plants stayed around for years and years.

[Dunamisdeos]

Yo here's me herbs! Rosemary is still in it's starter cup to the right.

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From left:
Thyme, Basil, Dill.

[scriver]

Thyme, Basil, Dill.

Remember me to one who lives there

[wierd]

That's parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme bruh.

[Reelya]

Growing carrot greens is totally going well. I did consider growing potatoes, however potato greens aren't edible, whereas sweet potato greens are edible, so now I'm considering growing sweet potatoes instead since the entire plant is edible, and there would be no wasted growth.

[wierd]

If you don't mind weeds;  Lambsquarters are superbly nutritious, (Compare, spinach-- NOTE serving sizes. Spinach values are only 2g heavier. Labsquarters beats it handily in many essential nutrients, but spinach wins out handily on K and Folate.) and hardy (being wild pernicious weeds), and taste a great deal like spinach when young.

They have been my mainstay lately. Have a patch of them that is dense that is growing wild beneath a mulberry tree.

It tastes like nothing, and is kinda coarse unless you cook it into submission, but white clover is another good wild green. It contains a surprising amount of crude protein.

[Dunamisdeos]

Huh. Maybe I'll give lambsquarters a shot. I looked it up when dealing with my rosemary weed issue, and its apparently wild to this area.

You can buy the seeds online.

[wierd]

It gets tall and weedy, being an amaranth pigweed.  Unlike other amaranths, the seeds of lambsquarters are not edible, so don't be tempted to make porridge.

sorta like with lettuce, once the plants get tall and are exposed to strong hot weather, they get a funny flavor and a more coarse texture, which is why you want young plants.  They grow readily and fast from seed. I suggest completely clearing the bed of them before they reach full maturity in order to avoid having persistent and pernicious lawn pests.

[scriver]

Tomas is growing his first balls!



Also since most of out own grown plants died (why we do not know) we basically had no greens this year (Tomas is my o it project, but my parents have their owns). But happily a kindly neighbour stepped in and gifted us a bunch of tomatoes and sallads so we got a bunch again!

I've also been planting the (remains after cooking of the) mints plants I bought recently. I hope I can get them to survive!

Also our bee hotel has lots of bees buzzing in and out. Sadly when I looked at then yesterday I saw that one of them had a huge larvae looking thing attached to it. Poor bee. I hate parasites! They disgust me.

[Dunamisdeos]

Right now it's growing fast, but a weed killed 3 out of the 4 seeds i put in there.

My thing was that you have to place the seed on TOP of the soil, rather than just underneath like all the other stuff i was growing. So the first set of 4 i messed up, and then a weed almost got all of the others.

[scriver]

Plants are tricky! It's like they don't want us to grow them

[Dunamisdeos]

My dill like like 3 feet high now should I buy a bigger pot? How big is too big for herbs do they need more space?

It's starting to flower it has lil' buds.

[Loud Whispers]

RIP my mint

But the leek I threw in a compost bin is now fully mature and has grown this weird bulbous nodule thing. Maybe it'll flower, or evolve teeth

[Dunamisdeos]

Pictures of doomsday flora please.

[Iduno]

Pictures of doomsday flora please.

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