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Subscribe Remember my beautiful new herb garden with a gate?
A few months later, I’m happy to report that my basil, oregano, chives, rosemary, and sage are doing tremendous! The weeds are also flourishing! The parsley is languishing, and the dill is dead. However! It’s mostly doing well! ESPECIALLY the weeds! In fact, the weeds are doing so well, I can’t even find the herbs!
You’re welcome. This public service photograph is here to make you feel better about your own herb garden. As is this one:
And this one!
Ahoy! We are a-sail on a ship of weeds! We float upon a river of invasive pestilence! We chart a course to wreck upon the rocks of negligence!
We shall write poetry, songs, and sonnets to the weeds. Mostly, because that’s easier than pulling them.
Sigh. Okay. Staff? STAFF?!
I always have to do everything myself.
Ta da.
How’s your herb garden doing?
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on August 10, 2011
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Granny Trace
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Has anyone ever noticed how garden plants wilt after a particular aggressive weeding session? Well, this is why.
Agriculture texts at the turn of the century taught farmers about weeds and their purpose in the fields. Now all we have is Monsanto selling us chemicals and ideas to eradicate weeds, and all that has gotten us is super-weeds. Sad.
I’ve learned to love messy gardens. They produce equal to or almost as well as pristine ones, with alot less labor and aggravation. That’s not to say I want it so totally over-run with weeds the plants compete with one another, but there can be a nice symbiotic relationship that works for everyone’s advantage. Minus Suzanne’s “staff”!!
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I know there are herbs in that garden somewhere, I just don’t know where!
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That heat wave just about did me in and I could rarely bring myself to maintain the garden. With two jobs, the heat and a bumper crop of EVERYTHING, I was overwhelmed and, sadly, have neglected my poor garden.
Now at least I don’t feel so bad about the weeds.
Thank you, Liz, you have lifted a worrisome cloud from me!
P.S. My herb garden isn’t too terribly weedy but it’s looking pretty pitiful…
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My herb garden consists of basil and dill in the vegie garden this year and I just weeded for the first time because of rain, haying and no time.
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Liz, whether you’re right about weeds or not, I’ve decided to accept and embrace what you say unquestioningly. From now on whenever the weeds overrun my garden, I’m just going to give your explanation and turn it into a virtue. Although since many of our weeds aren’t native plants, but cultivars run amok, I’m not sure it applies. But that’s your story and I’m sticking to it.
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The chickory/radicchio was planted originally because I wanted fall/winter “greens.” The only radicchio I’ve ever gotten the mice/chipmunks got, and I’ve never managed to lift the roots and force the Belgian Endive I was supposed to. In the meantime, they come back year after year, taunting me with the beautiful blue flowers that the bees love.
The root parsley actually is useful. I use it as parsley and dry a bunch; haven’t bought parsley flakes for years. But the roots are supposed to be edible too. There must be some method to preparing/cooking it, as the only roots I’ve ever gotten have been the consistency of naval rope. If there’s a trick to it, I’d sure like to know it!
I also have other weeds too, but I didn’t plant those originally!
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Anyone else do this?
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I just remembered the peppers are dripping off the plants so, I need to go can them!! I love living in the country!!
Thanks for all you do!
Nanette