BYC gardening thread!!

[MeepBeep]

 
The best way to find out if you gonna like it- is to plant it. Plant a new herb you want to try. If you like it - plant it next year, if you won't - don't.
I don't like cilantro at all, but I plant it every year for my friends. They love it. 

I can't wrap my taste buds around cilantro.  Even grew some last year, but it got buried under the cukes since I put it in as an after thought.  I keep trying stuff I really don't like, expecting that sooner or later, my taste buds will get with the program!

I like it in moderation on some dishes, but it can easily overpower stuff... For me it's a necessity in fresh salsa or Pico de gallo type dishes... That said for the amount I use it's not practical to grow when I can get a bunch for 49 cents when needed...

That said my chickens love it, I sometimes get bushels full of day old bunches from a local grocery store and the chickens tear into it...

 

[dan26552]

 

[Ardj]

For me dill,parsley and chives is a must.I grow lots of herbs,not just the few standard ones. Herbs are brilliant.

 

[chickadoodles]

Very nice Dan. I am spying on my turnips, they are bigger and bigger every day

but please oh please we need rain!
Btw is someone crazy like me about growing herbs and using them in teas for cold and flu,tummy aches ect? My grandmas and grand grandmas were great with this stuff. It was very popular back in the days in Europe and still is.
I think that mother nature is phenomenal and absolutely brilliant. Nothing better in the world !

How nice for you that you were able to learn those things first hand from your family.

I wish I had known my grandparents to learn some of the things they knew about plants and homemade remedies. My grandparents had already passed the pearly gates by the time I was born.
My father was 20 yrs. older than my mom and my mom moved across the country and we never knew any of her family.
I try looking up homemade remedies online and it is difficult to find or the ones I do find don't work.

 

[Ardj]

Thank you very much ! I feel so fortunate that I know what I know and I learned all from my parents and grandparents. And trust me.... in Europe back 30, 40,60,70.100 years ago they didn't have anything. I remember my grand grandma(she was 103y/o when she passed away) told me when she was a girl they used to split one match in 4 pieces... and there was always ALWAYS fire on the fireplace , if in some household fire died, they came and borrow some hot burning ashes to start a new fire in their own house. I used to do everything with them, from gardening, to harvesting grains, potatoes and hay. On a wagon with a horse of we went to the fields. Beautiful times.
I know some herbs and flowers and trees and plants that do wonders for us. I drink dried herbs all the time . I love to have them around me , because I love simple , quiet life. Garden full of random growing plants is what I remember from my grandmas village. Mother nature is remarkable !

 

[KentuckyMom]

The only thing I asked for for Christmas was some bees wax!  I intend to use it to make some lotions and potions.  One recipe I want to try is a concoction of Jewel weed and plantain to make a salve to treat poison ivy.

If this works well I think you may be able to sell it! Nothing over the counter really seems to help when you get a bad case of it. Even when I'm looking out for it, it STILL gets me!

 

[lazy gardener]

If I get a spot on me from the cat's wanderings, it will last AT least 6 weeks. And my GD has severe eczema. I think this concoction would do wonders for her. I've also noted that locally harvested honey helps her asthma.

 

[chickadoodles]

Thank you very much ! I feel so fortunate that I know what I know and I learned all from my parents and grandparents. And trust me.... in Europe back 30, 40,60,70.100 years ago they didn't have anything. I remember my grand grandma(she was 103y/o when she passed away) told me when she was a girl they used to split one match in 4 pieces... and there was always ALWAYS fire on the fireplace , if in some household fire died, they came and borrow some hot burning ashes to start a new fire in their own house. I used to do everything with them, from gardening, to harvesting grains, potatoes and hay. On a wagon with a horse of we went to the fields. Beautiful times.
I know some herbs and flowers and trees and plants that do wonders for us. I drink dried herbs all the time . I love to have them around me , because I love simple , quiet life. Garden full of random growing plants is what I remember from my grandmas village. Mother nature is remarkable !

That is awesome!

When I first moved to Alabama in 89 I moved to the country and wound up on a 250 acre farm. I helped cut, rake and bale hay and load and unload it almost daily during the summer.
I did learn a bit about farm life. And I married a farmer so I am still learning. lol

 

[Ardj]

250Acres wow! That's fantastic. I don't have farma and land here, all we have is a medium backyard and two small veggie gardens but its good. Better than nothing. I have turnips growing and spinach and lots of herbs and timatos and cucumbers and radishes and some beets,lettuce. I grow what we eat. My tomato plants are getting big but it still to cold at nights to put them out. Darn.

 

[chickadoodles]

250Acres wow! That's fantastic. I don't have farma and land here, all we have is a medium backyard and two small veggie gardens but its good. Better than nothing. I have turnips growing and spinach and lots of herbs and timatos and cucumbers and radishes and some beets,lettuce. I grow what we eat. My tomato plants are getting big but it still to cold at nights to put them out. Darn.

Yes it was fun. We had about 20 horses give or take. We had a nice garden.

But now I am living on a smaller farm and have raised beds for our gardens. DH and I had trouble trying to bend over to tend our large garden we had for several years.
So now it's smaller but we like it and may still add more kiddie pools. Since I can put them up on pallets so we can tend them easier.
I am growing salad bowl lettuce so I can just cut off what I need and let it grow back so I don't have to re-plant,
Our tomato plants are blooming, bell peppers are small but coming along.