Not necessarily the comment you were looking for but every one of your videos I learned something new and I am a 56 year lifelong gardener. Thank you for what you do!
There were rosemary bushes everywhere in my folk's place in Arizona. No watering at all and they were huge plants. One plant was so large that a hawk would regularly sit on top waiting for small dessert animals to leave the bush providing him/her with an easy lunch.
Rosemary is my favorite. Once established, it is drought tolerant & grows quickly. Its an expensive herb. Mine is in my front yard & there are several people who help themselves.
Rosemary roots very easily in water if you take about 5 inch green sprigs and remove 1/2-3/4 of the leaves. Pop them in water, change twice weekly and you have rooted rosemary to share or plant! 😊
Holy basil is one of my favs for the pollinators. I find its flavor too strong even as a tea but I am so happy to see the bees all over it when I go into my vege garden.
I had a rosemary bush that was established and over six years old. After Tropical Storm Debby came through, my yard was flooded for less than a week. The rosemary died. So yes, it does not like to have its feet wet!
I started with 4 chamomile plants a few years ago and now have a 10 x 12' bed of it and took some of the seeds and planted them in other areas. I planted 3 varieties of mint, 3 of thyme, 2 oregano, lemon balm, dill and 2 chive plants a few years ago and every year they come back bigger and bigger. I have the mints in their own small gardens. And I do what you do bu letting my herbs flower at the end of the season. I grow 9 varieties of basil outside every summer and inside in the winter in my one very sunny window. I also grow rosemary, 3 varieties of sage, parsley, bee balm, calendula, pineapple sage, lavender, hyssop, and St. John's wart.
@@michellehughes8661 tinctures, oils, salves, lotions, beard oils, creams, shampoo, bath and shower bags, soaps, teas, seasoning blends, and herb butters. I powder some and make pill capsules of them. I also freeze some, dehydrate some, air dry some and freeze dry some.
Luke, as much as I appreciate the info you usually share in your videos, I was very surprised by what you told followers about growing mint in this video. I about died when you showed how you were using only that small pot as your major proof for your opinion to never plant it in a pot in the ground. Really, that's your proof? 🤦♀️ Dear he mistake ypu made like many others you needed the proper size of container. A much BIGGER container instead of a 3.25" container. 🤦♀️ FOR YEARS I grew mint in pots in ground with no problems at all! Yes, it's true, and my experience with mints and how I managed them turned out FAR diffent that what you were telling everyone today. Your experience was uber limited at best on that point. I was thankfully able to avoid making those mistakes after learning from a seasoned herb grower 30 years ago what she did and why her method worked. What She had discovered was depth of a container is key with mints. Using her technique, I grew my Mitchem's black peppermint and others successfully for years. Mitchems is an aggressive peppermint with excellent sweet peppermint flavor and my all time favorite peppermint. The containers must be at least 12" deep and that wide or wider. I found the best ones to use are those big black nursery pots with a good top lip that will hold the lip of the container to about 1" above the soil line. I grew in these for years with no with migrating rooting beyond the walls of the containers. The pots overall size makes a BIG difference. The mint roots only went so deep and never deep enough to run underneath the container wall. Instrux.... First cut the bottoms off. I used a serrated blade as it seemed to work easiest. Next I dug holes in the ground deep enough to sink the pots to where the top rim is 1" above the soil line. This is why that nice broad lip is so handy. Then I refilled the holes and containers with amended soil, planted each with a mint plant, and watered them well. Doing it this way there was literally not one bit of root migration with containers that deep, not even with spearmint, which is even more aggressive than the peppermint are. Yes, mints need to be dead headed to kerp from self sowing and, yes, managing draping branches, but if planted properly, they do very well staying in bounds in large nursery pots. I challenge you to give this a try next year! I'll be sending out an official invite, so stay tuned. 😅
I had one parsley plant. I let is go to seed and now I have 20+ plants. I always let one plant from my herbs and veggies flower and go to seed. That way I get more seeds. I love my invasive mint because I love to smell it when I walk over it.
I love my herb garden. I grow lemon thyme, rosemary, lavendar, lemon balm, spearmint, sage, oregano and yearly basil and I harvest as much as I can to use fresh or dehydrated. I keep them trimmed and in pots and remoce flowers as soon as they are noticed and have been able to keep everything from spreading. This is my 4th-5th year and the plants are mature and growing almost like a solid hedge. It is beautiful.
I came across a “Mojito mint” at the garden centre in spring and put it in a pot that sits in the shade on my balcony. I’ve avoided mint for years because of how invasive it is. But this little guy is so happy where he is and so am I. 😊
😂 Grow mint by the side of road! When mowing the scent is amazing plus it deters wildlife from crossing the road. I find this for the past 20 years in deer country and actually see the deer use the driveways to cross rather than through front garden making cars see them easier. 😊
Lol, a few volunteers😂. I use to have no dill and now it’s everywhere 😂. Cilantro and garlic chives-plenty. Have to remember to cut those chives before they seed! And Yes to parsley wintering over. Oregano is a beast! It can create a tight mat and I need to remove it. Like chives they are difficult to contain. I just planted spearmint and peppermint in a large container and need to watch it. Maybe set it on a hard surface. Chamomile struggles to grow here and when it decides to grow will probably be right up there with dill and cilantro. I wish rosemary, white sage and bay leaf overwintered. The basil is having a great year.
You have to prune them and then they will grow bushy. Just make sure the soil is fertile. You can plant them between tomato plants and then they'll grow tall. There are videos about how to prune them for best results. Basil I grow in the ground because the ones I try to grow in pots don't do as well. Check out Thai Tower Basil. It's a very interesting variety that doesn't flower early. It is a Thai basil so much stronger in flavour than Genovese.
Thank you SO much ! My basil died a few years ago and I had NO idea why until now, I let it be and after it flowered it just died. Now I finally know why
I love growing herbs. Next year, I plan on growing more. My mint has been in the same container for three years, and I can't kill it! I live in MA, which is zone 6, so over the winter, I cut it back, put leaves from the yard over it, and slide it under my patio chair. In the spring, I pull out, and it goes back on my patio table, where it grows and grows. Same with my chives. I had to move then to a better container this year and thought I might have killed it... Nope!! It came back and loves its new home. I plant basil every year. Next spring, I'm starting with Rosemary and Oregano. My apple-mint overcrowded my strawberry-mint (I highly recommend both), so I need to plan better next year. After all that, I completely agree, plant herbs! You can't go wrong and can't kill them! 😅
I love growing herbs! I grow marjoram, Rosemary, thyme, parsley, dill and assorted basils. I lost my savory and oregano so I will replace. Herbs are so expensive in the grocery store whether fresh or dried, and they very easy to grow, it’s a no brainer!
Our has it along the fence. A hint to spread is actually to clip the top, i do it in spring for tea, and its like a hydra one top turns to two. Then later in season let it finally flower.
I adore bolted Mrs. Burns' Lemon Basil. I prefer it, actually. It brings a nice bite to the herb. I love it fresh, but I also dehydrate it and use it in so many dishes. I get that it tastes different, but some people desire the more potent flavors. There are a couple of other things I still like once bolted, but things like radicchio, arugula, and lettuce are where I draw the line of flowered edibility. Those are so bitter they will numb your tongue!
Rosemary, chives & bay laurel. I used to have thyme but it died after 7 yrs. However I'm hard on my herbs. I take them from Michigan to Arizona every year for 6 months at a time each. I also take 3 citronella plants & a butterfly bush plant, a primrose. Yes I have the front bay converted to my plants they take quite a bit of space. But I love spices in my food & love the flowers. Citronella also deters snakes, so very helpful in AZ. I also start my seed pods down there & bring back seedlings with me every yr
Another herb I've had success with this year -- similar to rosemary -- is French tarragon. It's absolutely thriving and I hardly do a thing to it but add water about once a week.
I just have Rosemary in my front hedgerow but I live in Seattle, USDA zone 8b or 9a. (Problem is that averaging temperatures to decide zone sometimes causes problems.) Last year we had a freak 13° day. Normally, it doesn't get below 20 and some years we barely have frost. However, last year I lost Zone 7 plants. Rosemary survived but it is well established. It probably could not handle and extended cold of more than a week or so. I'm going to grow lemongrass in my future greenhouse as a perennial.
Parsley has been my frustration in this, my first year of gardening. I planted it from seed in a few pots and after 2 or 3 weeks of not germinating, I thought the seeds were not viable and planted something else in the pot. I have little parsley plants growing in with another herbs. Once it starts, it grows well and I love the smell when picking it.
Mint also spreads through drainage holes. Even if the top never touches the ground. Your best bet is grow it in a pot, which is placed on a patio or driveway.
I put some mint in one of my beds a couple years ago...he is right, it goes everywhere haha. It started in a one square foot area, then grew to 8, then I cut it back to 2 this spring, including digging down deep throughout it's range, and now it is back to taking up 8 square feet and is over 3 feet tall. Very aggressive plant! However it's a chocolate mint and smells amazing so I will keep working it back.
hmm... My sweet basil and Persian basils have been flowering for months, and with only 1 month left in zone 7, they aren't dying. And, I have so many of them because they are easy to cut and clone. Even if some died, I have way more than I would ever harvest. The lilac flowers on the dark Persian basil is so beautiful.
I have 7 different Basil plants. It’s about a full time job trimming all the flowers off. I did leave one for the pollinators. The plant is looking sad. It did its job. Now she is done. All the others are very robust
Dill. I let them go to seed and next spring end up with dill broadloom. Thousands of plants looking like a carpet. They become place holders until I plant something and then I pull them up and use them as mulch. Other than that, I use lots of dill in cooking and salad. Dill can really go bonkers. Pollinators love the flowers. Swallowtail butterflies lay their eggs on dill. The vole must have been desperate this year in early spring because it ate the tops off my first dill plants. Never had voles eat dill before.
I grew cilantro, basil, parsley, oregano, and English thyme this year. I love being able to dry my own herbs. We planted the wrong mint so we pulled the plants out of the bed, but some roots must have remained because it grew back. We will need to pull everything again and replant next year, but in an extra large container instead of an inground bed.
Plants can be real tricksters. Planted a beautiful violet-green pachysandra that disappeared! Now, 20.yrs later, I found it intertwined in my backyard w/ another ground cover. Has spread like crazy. Looks truly wonderful, but ... What an odd garden surprise.
I had an indoor mint plant I put on the back patio in its container when we moved into our new house because I didn't have a place for it yet. It was summer and it got flowers faster then i realized. I am now fighting it in the garden ☹️
Only got dill to grow this year. First time in ground gardening and I'm doing it in a field that has been commercially farmed for who knows how long. But I keep on keeping on. Waiting on baited breath for the garlic to be in stock. Any clue as to when you'll flood the site with them?
Here is CA, lemon grass is a perennial although it does get very ratty looking in winter. I cut it back to the ground to encourage fresh growth in the spring. Perhaps you can grow lemon grass in a pot in a colder zone and just bring it inside in winter like you might when over-wintering a pepper?
I didn’t know that about the flowering part of the herbs. That makes sense as to what happened to my oregano. The mint took over and because I didn’t remove the flowers, it didn’t do as good. Do I even need to do that with lavender and mint?
❤ Agree to disagree. My herbs are flowering and I pick flowers for drying to make tea blends. OMG! So delicious and medicinally healthy. People try my blends and most requested is herb flower tea. 😊
I eat too much mint, parsley and basil. Pesto, taboulleh salad and parsley/garlic (parsillade) is so much a part of my diet. If I just bought them in the store it would get expensive. My neighbors think french tarragon is a weed. It's a very expensive weed. Great in salad.
I learned something about defeating mint this year that I never knew. I inadvertently grew a luffa vine over a trellis covering a large mint plant. The luffa annihilated the mint! My lesson? To get rid of mint permanently, suffer a luffa to grow for a season! It will be a wild season of coverage, but when all is said and done, the mint will be no more. I intend to do further testing of this next year. Luffa be nutz!😂😮
@@DebRoo11 it is in a large grow bag. I pulled it out when I finally noticed but it has not returned yet after a couple weeks. I'm not holding out much hope.
I have Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano, parsley, even a onion (freebie) also some others like echinacea, comfrey, mullein too. Plus I planted a few Elderberry bushes a couple years ago (no berries yet)
I killed my mint and lemon balm this year. 3rd year for the mint, 2nd year for the lemon balm. I had others watering for me and when I was showing them where to water, I didn't stress watering the 2 pots. Of course this happened after I gave away the seeds to a new gardener. Lol
Mint grows from rhizomes, just like quack grass, raspberries, or Trembling Aspens, as other examples. Dig them out, or suffer the consequences. To suffer means to allow.
Basil is taking over my garden no joke, straight up choked out some of my tomatoes because they got so big. I have catnip running wild as well but that hasn't been a problem, neither has my chives but sweet basil?... grrrr So my point is to grow with caution because every yard is different
Hi I found you through arms about the pond sludge which is a great idea. But Daniel said you sell seeds.. I looked in your store there's only a few things ..where can I get seeds? Do you have a different website? And do you sell small starter lettuce plants?
I have had trouble getting my herbs to survive. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I buy most of my from Home Depot. These are Burpee's Seeds. I order some from Burpee's.
