Saturday, April 15, 2017

On Planting: Herbs


In addition to my ambition on growing potatoes this year, I’ve also elected to take a stab at a few herbs. I pondered these options for quite a bit. In fact, originally, I’d planned to grow at least a half dozen. This idea quickly died, especially as I realized I needed to start small & see how things went. I think this mentality will help keep my thumb green & help keep away my black thumb.

I had visions of planting all of my “go-to” herbs: (all are links to seeds on Amazon) parsley, basil, dill weed, oregano … & maybe even go out on the limb of trying to grow things like lavender & aloe & who knows what else.

Then I got a little smarter when I sat back & checked out the “big picture”. Realistically there’d be no way I’d manage to get all these herbs growing & keep ‘em growing. I’d not be able to monitor them properly & would probably break their containers before they’d fully grow or at least make a major enough of a mess to knock the optimistic wind out of me.

No thanks.

I got myself grounded & I’m ambitious enough at this point to grow two different herbs. At Dad’s [brilliant] suggestion, as I’m growing potatoes, I’m also growing chives. And because they’re a basic herb that are great to top just about anything, the other herb I’m growing is parsley.

Two herbs; & in my other ambition, I’ve prepared multiple growing containers in so that I’ll have a few opportunities, between these multiple containers, for herb growing success.

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