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Same... Herb seeds don't do well for me either. I quit wasting money and just bought some small starts.I also have not had luck with many seeds. I prefer to buy small plants and transplant them.
I have a concrete floor, but it is covered by 4" of sand which absorbs moisture and odors so smell isn't a problem. However, I do have some girls who LOVE roosting in the nesting boxes and poop in them. They are filled with shavings & straw. That smells. So maybe I should put some dried lemon balm in THOSE, eh?I can grow anything in winter but not in summer, lol. so I don't need to dry a lot of herbs. I dried some spearmint and lemon balm. as my built coop became smelly I cleaned it and spread those dried herbs. I swear I will never ever have a concrete floor coop again.
I have a concrete floor, but it is covered by 4" of sand which absorbs moisture and odors so smell isn't a problem. However, I do have some girls who LOVE roosting in the nesting boxes and poop in them. They are filled with shavings & straw. That smells. So maybe I should put some dried lemon balm in THOSE, eh?
Herb gardens are SO cool.I wanted to start a thread about garden herbs. What do you grow? Do you use it fresh or dried? How do you harvest and store it? What do you use your herbs for?
I grow the following herbs -
Dill - typically use fresh in canning
Rosemary - just started growing a new start this summer.
Lemon Balm - will be drying this herb and saving for tea.
Lemongrass - will be drying this herb for tea. Would like to use the stalks in cooking but I'm not sure what dishes we routinely make where I can use it.
Basil - have always used this fresh in various dishes. I'm going to dry some this year. Not sure what I will use it for yet.
Pineapple Mint & spearmint - use this fresh in fruit infused water.
Stevia - got this because I use Stevia in lots of things but don't really know how to convert leaves to usable sugar so I'm not sure if I will maintain it.
We put hardware cloth on the ground under our garden, but, its not big enough, lol. We have moles and they got nothin' from our hardware cloth garden this year! Good luckI've always struggled with chives. They hate me. (So does lavender and chamomile for that matter.) I've tried to grow it from both seed and started plants. This year I THOUGHT I was going to get a good, healthy section of chives inside my hoop house....until my dreams of fresh chives were dashed by that dastardly gopher who pulled ALL my chives underground and ate them...
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My garden is too big to use hardware cloth. So next year I'm going to plant them in a container instead of in the ground. I will just need to be very particular about what gets put into the ground until I can dispose of the goobers.We put hardware cloth on the ground under our garden, but, its not big enough, lol. We have moles and they got nothin' from our hardware cloth garden this year! Good luck