Greenhouse Herbs
May. 20th, 2011 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragoness_eHmm, it's been a while since I posted any photo-essays. I've got quite a lot of pictures piled up that I'll get around to posting some time. I hope.
Meanwhile, today I took a couple of pictures just to show you my herb garden. I grow stuff in pots in the greenhouse because I just don't have the energy to fight the weeds and bugs on steroids we have down here; it's easier to keep a few pots of kitchen herbs under control and weed-free than it is to keep a whole kitchen garden up and running. This is my second year of raising kitchen herbs and a few straggly orchids I inherited with the greenhouse.
Bench with potted herbs and orchids
Top row, left to right: orchid, orchid, cinnamon basil, lemon balm, lemon balm, parsley, chives, orchid, orchid.
Bottom row: 5 pots of sweet basil, big pot of sweet basil, Thai basil, cinnamon basil.
By the way, I like basil.
Box full of spearmint
I found this planting box full of nothing but sandy dirt. Last year I planted mint and spearmint in opposite corners, and sweet basil and Thai basil in the other two corners. That's when I found out that mint does not confine itself to corners... it spreads like whoa! When the basil plants start dying at the end of summer (they are annuals), I pulled the basil and just let the mint take over the box. If you hang around it, it smells like a ton of Wrigley Spearmint chewing gum.
Meanwhile, today I took a couple of pictures just to show you my herb garden. I grow stuff in pots in the greenhouse because I just don't have the energy to fight the weeds and bugs on steroids we have down here; it's easier to keep a few pots of kitchen herbs under control and weed-free than it is to keep a whole kitchen garden up and running. This is my second year of raising kitchen herbs and a few straggly orchids I inherited with the greenhouse.
Bench with potted herbs and orchids
Top row, left to right: orchid, orchid, cinnamon basil, lemon balm, lemon balm, parsley, chives, orchid, orchid.
Bottom row: 5 pots of sweet basil, big pot of sweet basil, Thai basil, cinnamon basil.
By the way, I like basil.
Box full of spearmint
I found this planting box full of nothing but sandy dirt. Last year I planted mint and spearmint in opposite corners, and sweet basil and Thai basil in the other two corners. That's when I found out that mint does not confine itself to corners... it spreads like whoa! When the basil plants start dying at the end of summer (they are annuals), I pulled the basil and just let the mint take over the box. If you hang around it, it smells like a ton of Wrigley Spearmint chewing gum.
