Thank you for the information on the board I'm going to plant some next to my tomatoes this year I'm in Oklahoma and we do have the horned caterpillars they will help keep them away
Thanks! Just learned what one of my plants were last summer that came up from a flower seed mix I spread in a patch where a tree stump was ground down. Luckily I ended up chopping and dropping it so looking forward to it again this spring.
It adds a LOT of sweet flavor without sugar to alcohol, if you’re making your own. I added it to a batch of mead I made once and it was almost too sweet. Yummy though.
Thanks for this. New subscriber. I had no idea it would grow so big. I received a collection of herb seed packets this spring and the borage one suggested planting it in with strawberries to increase the yield and flavor of the berries. So I planted the whole pack here and there between the rows of a 4'x12' raised strawberry bed. All of the borage has come up and is only a few inches tall atm. Now worried they will completely overwhelm the bed! Wondering if I need to pull most/all of it out of there. :(
I love to eat the flowers. I just love to have it in my garden. At present I don't see any bees. Although plants are blooming already. Too early spring. 3 Sept. Namibia
I've gotten seeds for Phacelia nemoralis and Phacelia heterophylla from a couple of Willamette Valley wildflower sellers -- again not as showy, they also don't have the purple blooms like that (they have white flowers), but I got them because they're supposed to be a favorite of bumble bees. They're supposed to be short lived perennials? Mine aren't really old enough for me to figure out how long they live... Amazingly drought tolerant though I can tell already. And their leaves were barely damaged at all by our frost in Dec this year.
@@ParkrosePermaculture I got the seeds from Willamette Wildlings. Nemoralis they have as an individual species packet and the heterophylla came in one of their wildflower mixed packets.
I think you would, pretty sure borage is a self sowing annual, so whatever was growing wont grow back after winter, but the seeds sow themselves very well. At least thats what I've gathered.
Do you find any legitimacy in the argument that chop and drop creates slug habitat? I'm in a slightly cooler wetter spot in the PNW, and it's definitely viewed with suspicion by some. I keep wondering what's the legend and what's the evidence based reality. (I can't have poultry, so I'm not benefitting from a slug yield :)
I feel like slug habitat is ample here as it is. I find far more slugs under leaf litter or logs I use for garden bed edging than in woodchips. To be fair, I feel like my ducks keep the overall yard slug population pretty low to begin with. I think that by helping the soil retain moisture, the woodchips could be encouraging suitable conditions for slugs, but I think the payoff of decreased weeds, increased water retention and decreased erosion and soil building outweigh any benefit to slugs.
