Bit of glare on this picture, my apologies. Anyways during Wednesday's whacking misadventure, I discovered the the lemon verbena was very much outgrowing it's nice grey pot. Luckily I have something bigger- though not as nice. Of course some housekeeping needs to take place before the verbena gets a new home. Now this is normal, … Continue reading Lemon verbena re potted
So I've had some old dead tarragon under my shade herb pots for a while. I set them there during the rains to see if they'd bounce back. Not very bouncy. The one in terra-cotta is stone dead, and I thought the one in ceramic was too. Well what do you know? After cutting back … Continue reading Tenacious Tarragon
Been a while, and this one's largely going to be a good news/bad news post because I have a lot of that going on right now. October is a good month. So good news first! The second brassica bed is doing great. Sprouts are sprouting, kohlrabi is rabi-ing- good news all around. My next project … Continue reading Captain’s log: October 9th 2019
The latest try to anyways. It's not draining great and paradoxically dries out too easy and in general the really established plants are doing great while any new ones are kinda meh. Also the sage looks rough. That empty spot on the end in particular is like where herbs go to die. I lost a … Continue reading Trying to fix the sun herb bed
So whitefly is an issue this time of year as the aphids start to go away, out come the whitefly. So I got some traps. They're sticky traps that smell like new leaves, which is what those bastards go for. The mint seems to be one of the big pulls for the little buggy jerks. … Continue reading White fly abatement, hopefully
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