Prism99

I'm trying again this year. Tomorrow dh wants to till the ground and put up the old dog kennel I want to use to keep the varmints out (and provide support for tall peas and beans). Want to do it right this year.

Plan also to try out the "topsoil bag" gardening someone else posted about here. You cut slits in one side of a bag of top soil to allow for drainage, place that side on the ground, then cut out a circle or rectangle for planting. One tomato per bag, and I'm thinking maybe 4 to 6 pepper plants per bag. Easy works well for me. :D

I envy you people who have been able to put tomato plants out already!

Trying to keep the garden small enough to stay reasonable.

Prism99

I'm going to devote a bag of topsoil to a herb garden this year. Someone else posted about topsoil bag gardening and I've *got* to try it out this year. Should work really well for keeping an herb garden together. I like to plant chives, basil, rosemary, thyme, parsley and sage. I think they will all fit into the top of one bag.

Judebug

growing herbs indoors hasn't worked for me. Need grow lights thanks to long Alaskan winters, but I have success outside in long summer days if not too rainy. I've stuck to container plantings for easy deck access. What I don't use fresh gets frozen or dehydrated for later use.

luv-e

LOL We are in the same spot!!!! Dh has transplanted the young ones 3 different times..We are up to the extra Lg. Styrofoam cups now!!!! lol Just saw on the TV that it is raining here the next 5 DAYS!!!! OMG

sandyo

Yes, If it ever warms up.

kwendt

I'm in tropical south florida, so we grow year round... but we have a 'hot' time and a 'cool' time. So two sets of herbs are grown, usually as annuals.

I have some herbs inside, using Aerogrow gardens: basic, chives, dill, catnip, lettuces, and other stuff on occasion.

Outside year round: Bay leaf tree, cedar, Aloe (overtakes the yard!), Rosemary, maleluka (teatree), rose hips.

Then the others that I plant depending on if they need hot or cool: different basils (globe, italian, purple, etc.), mints (pineapple, chocolate, spear, cat, lemon), margaram, green onion, curry, parsleys/cilantro, marigolds, chives, lavender - hot climate variety, dill, thyme, sages (different ones) and oregano.

There are several herbs I just cannot grow here: witch hazel woody shrub, comfrey, willow, primroses, lilacs, birch, teaberry, etc.

I'm still learning my herbology for the south. Seems that we have more harmful toxin plants than anywhere else. lol. Tomatoes are steller though.

I'd really be interested in what tropical south folks are growing, and where they can find the plants.

sueisallaboutquilts

Not yet but chomping at the bit to do so! My husband has a lot of seeds he's also dying to plant. Soon I hope!

sunkistmi

We had frost here in Detroit. Will it ever be spring?????

Sandee

We just do a few things like tomatoes, peppers & cilantro. And flowers, of course if they count.

Sandee

I planted some Black eyed Susan & Coneflowers. Too cold here, too. And too wet most days for anything else altho I started some seeds indoors. They haven't grown much yet, either. Hope we get some better weather soon!! ALL of us!!!