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| The herb garden before I planted anything... it didn't change much in looks even after I planted seeds. |
Back in August when hubby & I moved into our new country
home I was really looking forward to trying a late herb garden. I raked out the
area I wanted to use, divided it into 10 sections and then planted my seeds. I watered
them as needed and then waited for sprouts to show. I waited and waited… about
three weeks later I had a few sprouts and was really excited…until I figured
out that they were weeds. I did have one little sprout of lemon balm come up,
but it didn’t grow enough to do anything with. Over all I’d have to say that
planning a late herb garden was a fail. A good while after I had planted my
seeds I was told that the raised bed I had used for the herb garden didn’t have
great soil and almost nothing would grow there previously. So apparently if I
want to use this bed again in the future I’ll just have to fix up the dirt a
bit.
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| The packages of seeds I chose to plant. |
I planted dill, lemon balm, cilantro, chamomile, lavender,
catnip, parsley, and rosemary. Needless to say I was disappointed with the outcome.
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| The chart I made to keep track of what I planted where in case anything popped up. |
I do plan to start an herb garden in the spring…after
I work on fixing up the soil a bit. Hopefully that run will go better than this
one did. I really like herbs and am looking forward to drying them when I do finally have a successful crop!
I hope you continue to try again in the Spring! A lot of what we do is try & error. I've had success starting my plant's inside, hardening the up, and then transplanting the outside. Good luck!
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