Posted on 11/29/2013 3:57:22 PM PST by greeneyes
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All the broccoli and celery and carrots and cabbage and stuff is already outside in the ground under the cold frame.
/johnny
I will have my trays and little pots on the kitchen table. There simply isn't any other space that receives good sunlight, except in the living room, which is out of the question. They're also right there in the middle of everything, where I can tend to and keep a constant eye on them.
The kitchen is on the south side of the house, thank goodness. I will have to buy my rosemary plants, but everything else will be from seed.
Beet root juice? I didn’t know that. I’ll have to try that. Thanks!
I had to go to the grow light and stand to get seeds to sprout inside.
I'm jealous of greeneyes as I think she grows a winter garden in her basement. We don't have basements here. Digging in our dirt that far down gets you a lake seeping into a basement.
I hear you. Unless you’re in an end unit townhouses can be very dark. We have a basement, but with my bad knee I try to avoid stairs, and thus the kitchen table option. Grow lights are a good choice for those of us who have limited sunlight.
Regarding your southern weather. Are you bragging or complaining?LOL You could just take off during your winter season and sip tea with scones or something.
I am jealous that you have such nice weather during the winter - we have to do indoor gardens because it is too cold to do much out doors.
If you figured out a different place for hanging your pots and pans, you could get a lot of use out of the west facing window in the kitchen. Lots of herb plants etc.
See post 186.
Yep do it raw. Cooking renders it not effective.
Thank you!
I am crunched in this townhouse for space. That is the only place that white metal unit will to go hold my pots and skillets and other items I use. I have to have them up where I can reach them. My upper cabinets are stuffed as is and the problem is, I can’t bend down to those lower cabinets to get anything out. The one I would need wouldn’t be right there to quickly get it out, and I can’t stoop to stay down there.
Hmm, what I am thinking now is I have that new kneeling thingy that makes it easy for me to get down and get up. I won’t move that tall metal thing with the pots and pans, etc, but I can now get down to those cabinets to see what is in them. I haven’t gotten anything out of those lower cabinets in years because I couldn’t.
I keep thinking of things to ask you guys.
I have a long thin (maybe 6-7 inches across and 4 ft. long) planter that will be empty in spring. Those planters were in one picture I posted on here. My question is this, I can plant several herbs in one of those but are there certain herbs you wouldn’t want to plant next to each other?
You know I don’t know much about herbs and using them so I don’t know if they like to be planted next to some and not others. Maybe they hate certain ones. I studied human behavior for many years so I know why Johnny is (((strange))), but I don’t know herb behavior. Let me know if I shouldn’t plant “x” next to “x”.
Just so you know, I can never be tested to see if I am nuts because I know all the answers to the psychological tests as I gave them for many years. (I can be bribed to give you the answers.) :o)
/johnny
/johnny
Thanks, I copied that to plant those three together and to know basil and cilantro are annuals.
I didn’t know basil and cilantro are annuals - I don’t know much about herbs. If they are annuals and I couldn’t get the plants from a store every year, I would need the seeds which I don’t have. Rats.
I think Mexican hot sauce with Cilantro in it is so fine.
It’s a matter of semantics - strange = eccentric. You are interesting to me because you are (((different))).
/johnny
I have some alive in the cold frame now.
/johnny
There are many different basils. You will probably want the classic basil used in Italian cooking, and at least one other kind. I say at least one, because basil is easily to start and makes attractive plants—I would grow a dozen kinds if I had the space. You can give away extra seedlings. The only thing you need to do once the plant is growing in its permanent place (they transplant readily) is keep snipping off the top so it does not form flowers and seeds, and so the plant will be bushier. The purple forms are fun to grow.
For me, I grow the type I have, because it does well here. It's a traditional greek-style basil. I do let it go to seed every year. Basil and cilantro get moved around in the yard every year, depending on many factors, so leaving it in one spot isn't going to happen here.
/johnny
No. I'm very conservative in what I grow, and grow only what I use regularly. I only grow roma tomatoes. I know there are many other types out there, some that are better for some things than the romas, but that's what I grow from year to year for a good general purpose tomato. I don't experiment much.
/johnny
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