Newbie question.
Several years ago I planted an herb garden in a sunny corner near the house. Rosemary, thyme, sage and oregano. They grew beautiful but had no flavor or even good smell. In fact they all tasted the same. Little dirt.
Wondering if anyone knows what I did wrong.
(And she and Billie Jeff was throwing somethin’ off the Tallahatchie Bridge)
Dang Arkancides! And they moved to New York and who knows what they went and buried in the Chappaqua woods!
Well, my Mason bees—which I bought for the purpose— were supposed to pollinate my blueberries but they all blew or flew away. I saw a lone bumblebee several times but no other bees. (maybe a few small ones.) They had a box with tubes, they even had wet clay to seal their brood tubes. Well, I may have put them out a week too early. I May try it again next year when I will also have a couple of plum trees that also need to be pollinated.
Since they went truant I got an old battery operated toothbrush and buzzed the blueberry flowers by hand to do the pollination. It appears to have worked, and with all the rain I have some pretty good sized berries! (Just 6 bushes.)
I bought some rhubarb plants, Crimson Red, and they are starting just starting to wake up. I had some doubts about the roots, which were a rotten mess, and from which I trimmed a bunch of decayed junk. Home Depot was selling some Valentine Rhubarb plants and I might go get one of them as well.
If anyone is interested, the Home Depot around here was selling Fig trees (Chicago hardy) in the rack that held asparagus. I don’t have room for a plot of asparagus but I do have room for a few pots of Figs. Easy to grow. (Put tape on ends of the figs to keep the ants out! put a little apple maggot bag on the fig to protect it from squirrels and birds.)
Growing figs is a pretty serious hobby. If you don’t think so go check out You tube! Probably something to do with paying $5 for a little tray of ripening figs! Anybody else growing figs?