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Re: Amaryllis They are marginally hearty in the villages. I've been growing them for years in my garden. You need good drainage. I do not take them out. They are heavy feeders so lots of fertilizer when they are growing. On cold winter days I do cover them at night The ones sold for the holiday season have been conditioned to bloom in december. They would normally bloom in the spring. You cannot take one of those and immediately put it in your garden and expect it to survive. You need to follow instructions for storing it and plant it in the spring. It will take two seasons to get into it's normal cycle. |
I bought a small potted rosemary plant (was maybe 4" tall), a dying 4-pack of basil, and a dried out nearly-dead italian oregano pot along with a nicely growing potted greek oregano, and 2 echinacea plants, both very small but healthy. Got them all at Lowe's, the dying plants were around a buck on the "these are dead, take them cheap or they're getting thrown away in 3 days" rack. I also bought a lemon-thyme plant, I think at Walmart.
The rosemary is around 2.5-feet tall and over 3 feet in diameter, after I cut it back significantly. It's finally outgrown its ENORMOUS pot and is starting to die from root-rot, so I'll likely replace it next year. When you cut it back, the rosemary oil sticks to your fingers like tar and takes a couple of hours to wear off. Pot-grown rosemary is a pain, and very messy to maintain. The greek oregano was in a shallow pot and suffered root-rot and died, and the italian oregano is flowering and doing great, and its roots have pushed through the hole in the pot and is now firmly ensconced in the flowerbed. I harvest the oregano every few months to keep it from getting overcrowded and killing itself. It's almost as big as the rosemary bush and around 3 times more dense. The echinacea only flowers once a year, and I'm pretty much decided the flowers are unattractive so I'll probably replace them with some other herb in march. The basil has managed to survive the whole year as four straight stalks with sickly looking yellow leaves that actually taste just fine with tomatoes and feta and olive oil, but the first freeze will kill them. The lemon-thyme does great - it dies in the winter and comes back in the spring, and sometimes gets pretty tiny little flowers on the ends of the stems. Tastes great with roasted chicken and roasted potatoes. I have a bunch of other things growing in the front flowerbed but those are the herbs. My garden is 100% organic (except for the original seeding method, which I'm sure was with the evil Miracle Gro) and unmaintained: I don't fertilize at all, I don't water, I don't use any weedkiller or pesticides. If nature intends for it to grow it'll grow. If nature intends for it to die, it'll die. I do weed the garden regularly (it doesn't really need much weeding) and harvest the herbs for cooking (except the echinacea). |
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No experience with it. Dirty hands plenty of experience. Learned from my uncle who was a printer. Try it. Dried corn meal. I think the course works better. Put it in your palm and add liquid dish soap and wash your hands. Cheap, it works great and is easier on your hands than typical commercial products. Oily dirt. try cooking oil-corn oil etc. Re: echiacea I never herd that called a herb. It is sold as a flower-painted daisy. Where we used to live, I tried growing it several times and it died. Perhaps it was too cold. It is supposed to be good for preventing colds. Depending on what you read that is debatable. I've also read you are not supposed to use it long term. |
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