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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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 Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 11:53:03 AM
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Oh lots...and I am so excited that my sweet annie is back up again this year (reseeded itself) yay!! I love the unusual herbs like costmary and soapwort, mugwort and like that...and then I grow all the culinary ones I can. I adore lovage...very peppery celery taste and dries well ..if any of you havn't tried it..you sure should. It is a big old hardy plant!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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dkelewae
True Blue Farmgirl
1310 Posts
Diana
Saint Peters
MO
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 12:06:23 PM
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I have 5 kinds of mint(in pots of course!) peppermint, spearmint, chocolate mint, pineapple mint, lime mint, then I have rosemary, lavender, sweet marjoram,chamomile, stevia,oregano, basil, cinnamon basil, lemon balm,and parsley.
Diana
St. Peters MO
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lilwing
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Brooke
Fulshear
Texas
USA
1403 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 1:06:54 PM
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I just planted some sage and chives in a pot. Crossing fingers they make it! ((I had a tomato plant babied it all year, had to go off for two weeks, came back and it died. As well as the mugwort, english mint and pineapple sage I had... Well, that's the way it goes but it was so upsetting!)) I have some lemon balm and yarrow... these are all in pots.... I'm going to try and grow some others when I have time .....
http://maggie.ecrater.com
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
1646 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 1:56:46 PM
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I have assorted herbs as well, but my most amazing one is the little 4" pot of angelica I planted. It is now six feet tall with two stocks like tree trunks!!! I had no idea...
I did manage to find some sweet annie seed and am anxious for it to grow big. I love the smell and the one I left in the greenhouse perfumes it. It's kind of neat.
Di on VI
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Txfarmgal
True Blue Farmgirl
585 Posts
AK
USA
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 2:54:03 PM
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LAVENDER!!!! Also basil, thyme, rosemary and cilantro. We are in the year long process of totally redoing our garden area so that and a few tomatoes, peppers, onion and garlic were all we planted this year. Next year the garden will be HUGE though. I am so excited! My hubby is really starting to get into the whole sustainable living thing. We got for Hens and he thinks it is so cool that we are raising our own eggs. He is even helping me to build a large coop and run area and we will start raising meat birds next spring as well.
Farmgirl Sister #17
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abigailc1973
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
abigail
orlando
fl
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 2:59:54 PM
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As far as herbs go, I only have rosemary, basil, and baby fennel. I just started some spearmint & lavender. I want to start some sage, oregeno, bay, thyme, & some other mint varieties. Diana, you have some nice varieties going. I've smelled the chocolate mint and pineapple mint (they're wonderful) but the lime mint sounds really nice too. You girls have sparked my interest in Sweet Annie, I may just have to seek out some seeds. I'd also like to get some of the different basils going too. I'm so limited on space here, it's rediculous, though. I wonder if I help my MIL organize her garden, if she wouldn't let me have an herb garden there too? So sorry to hear about your plant babies, Maggie, I've had things like that happen too, it's sad when it does.
Has anyone had luck growing bergamot? They use it to flavor Earl Gray tea, which I love, I'd love to have it around, I just love the smell.Aunt Jenny, it sounds like you have a really neat herb garden, I'd be out there all day smelling! |
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2899 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
2899 Posts |
Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 5:46:33 PM
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| OK here goes...3 kinds of sage, lemon thyme, curry, soapwort, 3 varieties of lavender, chocolate mint, spearmint, basil, parsley, echinacea, comfrey, rosemary, stevia, dill, orgegano, fennel, tarragon, chamomile, a Vick's plant(succulent leaves that smells like Vick's), horehound, spice bush? & chives. I think that's about it. It is a wild mess, but I think it looks kinda neat that way. |
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 7:22:30 PM
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I have sage, basil, rosemary, oregano, chives and mint. My dill just bit it, the darn chipmunks dug it up and it never recovered. I need lots of mint & dill for Persian cooking (for my hubby) and we both love basil.
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 08:19:52 AM
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jenny .. did your 'sweet annie' re-seed from LAST year? mine came in gang-busters the first and third year i lived her .. but not BIG crops last year or THIS! a few little plants here and there .. but i loved my big FOREST of it!
i couldn't believe that it started sprouting around my daughter's mailbox garden in TOLEDO!!! i have had lovage in the past .. i should get some more!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 08:21:33 AM
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diana .. i love mints .. mine just kinda' grows wild .. it took over my usual herb garden because i didn't put it in pots! i'll be flavoring lots of iced tea this summer! i had a marvelous STEVIA plant .. nursed it over a winter inside .. iot bloomed the next year .. then didn't make it over the following winter. got a new one recently .. but it died while i was gone in toledo. i'll bet your garden smells devine!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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