I have spent the past few months trying to get gardens cleaned up from winter, and getting the new plants into the ground. Then, we reach a point where peonies, iris, poppies and lilacs are in bloom, and we sit back and enjoy the view. At that point, there's another flurry of cutting back and cleaning up. I've been waiting for the daffodil leaves to ripen so that I can pull them out. We're just about there.
At the same time, everything in the herb garden has been growing like crazy. I SHOULD be cutting back chives and harvesting sage and oregano, but we're having a lovely rainy Saturday. Cutting back will have to wait until tomorrow or Monday. I plan to share some of the harvest with my friends at exercise.
I wanted to show you a picture of the overgrown herbs before we get to the mid-summer trim:
The chives and oregano are so wooly that you can't even see there's a center box in the garden just beyond them. St. Francis is in that center bed, and you can just see his head and shoulders. This year all that oregano will be shared, rather than going to waste. YEA!!
I plan to throw in a little catnip, too. NO, I won't mix the two together! *G*
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I think I need to do some work to my hearbs too. The sage is growing very leggy and this year the parsley hasn't done as well as it has in previous years. I wonder if that is because they are plants of limited life and need to br replaced relatively frequently.
Posted by Adele | July 4, 2007 9:21 AM
Posted on July 4, 2007 09:21