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| YellowRose |
Posted - Dec 27 2021 : 12:56:36 PM
This year's International Herb Society Herb of the Year is a really good one. Viola violet family which includes pansies and heartease aka Johnny-jump-up.
For new FarmGirls each year we celebrate our FarmGirl Jubilee and MaryJane's birthday in May. Some of us plant the Herb of the Year or a rose in celebration. I post the Herb of the Year early so those who wish to plant it can add it to their garden shopping list.
Hugs, Sara
FarmGirl Sister #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| Dreamer42 |
Posted - Jan 10 2023 : 4:49:23 PM
Thank you, Sara, for selecting and announcing the herb of the year. I personally LOVE ginger. I will strive to celebrate ginger this year with you farmgirls and think of new ways to use it at home. I'm already a candied ginger sort of girl, ginger tumeric teas are a favorite of mine as well. I personally would like to experiment cooking with it, so, inspiried, I will look for a few new recipes that include ginger and venture out of my little box. Hugs!
Dreamer42
Farmgirl Sister #7038 |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Jan 09 2023 : 05:46:59 AM
In the past I have announced the International Herb Society Herb of the Year. This year it is ginger.
Last year there was a discussion on having different Farmgirls pick the herb of the year each year. I think that is a great idea so if you want to choose the herb this year and keep up with the thread please do so. I will no longer be hosting the Herb of the Year thread.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| tigger9777 |
Posted - Jan 08 2023 : 5:35:32 PM
Hi everyone,
Did the 2023 herb get announced?
Thanks,
Candy
Sister # 8283
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| YellowRose |
Posted - Aug 20 2022 : 06:39:08 AM
Shelia isn't it fun when a plant naturalizes. The heat and no rain for weeks did my wild violets that I had transplanted in. Hope some of them come back next year.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| VT Oma |
Posted - Aug 20 2022 : 04:13:09 AM
Well I was watering my violets in their big pot, when I noticed that there was a violet on the ground quit aways from the pot of them. I thought one of them must have gotten ripped out, I went over to look and to my surprise it had seeded in the lawn. I am so happy for my little baby one on her/his own!
VT Oma
farmgirl #5766 |
| katmom |
Posted - Jun 12 2022 : 3:21:53 PM
So, I had to run into the Euro deli to pick up a few items... and on the counter sat a flower pot with a huge Violet plant in full bloom! we're talking "Violets on steroids! LOL!
I meant to take a photo but in my haste, forgot..
So when I got home.. I had a long talk with my puny violet plant that is being lazy and not giving me flowers!
Hopefully it got the message, and will give me some bloom...
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
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| VT Oma |
Posted - May 04 2022 : 06:14:34 AM
Hi Wanda, I can't take the credit for the embroidery, I do not really sew. , on a machine or not, maybe a little hand hemming, LOL
Farmgirl Sheila
5766 |
| Wanda Sue |
Posted - May 03 2022 : 5:18:06 PM
Denise your violet is very pretty. I used to keep a potted violet on my desk when I worked in an office.
Sheila your embroidery is beautiful!!
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
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| VT Oma |
Posted - May 03 2022 : 1:11:40 PM
Those violets look so pretty, it makes me smile.
Sheila
Farmgirl #5766 |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - May 02 2022 : 6:32:23 PM
~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007
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| Lacey |
Posted - May 02 2022 : 5:39:11 PM
Grace they are so beautiful!
Rea Nakanishi
Farm Girl Of The Month Jan. 2022
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso |
| VT Oma |
Posted - May 01 2022 : 1:50:03 PM
Wawho I saw some Viola being sold at the local general store, I told my husband if the ones I have do not germinate that I was going to buy them at the first store I see them, and I did. I am so happy, I am transplanting them to a bigger pot (not to big, and per my husband the nursery man) will put some tree chips in the bottom so the soil does not get to wet. I will still wait and see if the others germanite. I just found out that I can take pictures with my iPod touch, but do not know how to send them with my sister I would attach it to her Tex Messaging I do not know how to send it to other people. If anyone knows how let me know, thanks.
Farmgirl Sheila
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| April Michelle |
Posted - Apr 30 2022 : 09:36:02 AM
So pretty #128156; |
| VT Oma |
Posted - Apr 29 2022 : 06:38:51 AM
Hi Grace my violets have not done anything yet even being under a grow light I hope I did not get a bad batch of seeds! my husband said what I saw poking out were just a weed from the potting soil. I keep looking every day hoping. I think if I see some grown at the store I will buy them and some catnip to grow for our cat Merlin.
Sheila
Farmgirl 5766. |
| katmom |
Posted - Apr 26 2022 : 2:08:12 PM
Hey Sheila, how are your violets? I only have 1 plant,, the leaves look lovely, but no buds at this time...
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
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| VT Oma |
Posted - Apr 14 2022 : 5:51:58 PM
My violets are in potting soil and I think I have one or two poking up out of the soil. My husband went and got some grow lights so keep your fingers crossed. I can't wait.
Sheila
Farmgirl Sister #5766 |
| YellowRose |
Posted - Apr 08 2022 : 11:49:59 AM
I didn't order violet seeds because they are to be sown in the fall in my part of Texas. But all is not lost. I will have violets for the Jubilee. The wild violets I transplanted out of my yard several years ago have come back and are blooming. I have them in beds on both sides of sidewalk at front porch steps. I love plants that come back year after year.
Hugs, Sara "FarmGirl Sister" #6034 Aug 2014
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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| VT Oma |
Posted - Apr 08 2022 : 11:30:09 AM
Hi Grace, I checked with the post office in our old town we moved from, and the mail guy we know at the post office there said he never got the forwarding notice. He said when we send it off to the main postoffice for Vermont they are suppose to let the old post office know there is a forwarding form in. He never got that notice.
We have been having trouble with that since we moved to the town that is about 20 min from our old house. Did you put a return address on it? because it is suppose to come back to you.
I am so so sorry about this.
Sheila
Farmgirl # 5766 |
| VT Oma |
Posted - Apr 06 2022 : 7:42:11 PM
Grace, No not yet my husband told me it took him almost a month to get a letter in the mail, really bummed me out. I am so sorry about this.
Sheila
Farmgirl #5766 |
| katmom |
Posted - Apr 05 2022 : 7:53:23 PM
Hey VTOma ~ Sheila, did the pot holder that I sent to you, the old address, ever make it, get forwarded to you?'
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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| VT Oma |
Posted - Apr 05 2022 : 10:50:37 AM
l I bought my seeds (Pansy Swiss Giants Blend ), Viola wittrockiana. I will start them in the house but I changed my mind on starting them in a milk jug I am going to get a nice pot for them. Thanks to everyones posting I learned that you can eat them I did not know that! I can't wait till they start growing.
Sheila
Farmgirl #5766 |
| katmom |
Posted - Mar 02 2022 : 5:00:55 PM
Thank you Candy and Rea
Love easy machine embroidery fun projects.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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| Lacey |
Posted - Feb 28 2022 : 3:08:20 PM
So Beautiful!!
Rea Nakanishi
Farm Girl Of The Month Jan. 2022
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso |
| tigger9777 |
Posted - Feb 22 2022 : 10:16:07 PM
Katmom,
I love your violet embroidery.
I totally can see you making it on a hankie, linen kitchen towel or maybe the bib of an apron.
Great Job**
Candy
Sister # 8283
Farmgirl of the Year 2022
Farmgirl of the Month Dec 2021
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| katmom |
Posted - Feb 22 2022 : 5:55:55 PM
Oh Sara,, enjoy and have fun being creative with it.. can you almost smell the scent of sweet violets?
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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