April showers bring May… herbs
Micro greens.
Every year, my herb aspirations grow. I don’t have the greenest thumbs but I keep trying. This year I am growing cilantro again which I haven’t tried in years. I always screw up and they go straight to seed. Last year I had pretty good luck with basil, rosemary, oregano and micro greens (which were zero effort). The rosemary and oregano had survived the winter and started to grow on their own since March, and some thyme that didn’t really do so well are also making a comeback. I sowed the seeds for basil, cilantro, dill and micro greens a few weeks ago and everything is sprouting. I’ll give the micro greens another week or so before I start trimming.
These are wet pots, they are terra cotta inside glass which you fill with water and it’ll stay moist for 2 weeks. Basil for indoors.
This is the big outdoor pot of basil.
This is mint and chives I left in a box over winter. They never really got very tall.
I have 3 pots for cilantro, fingers crossed.
Oregano, the other half of the box held a rosemary plant which has been transplanted to a larger pot. I added some more oregano seeds to the empty side, hopefully the oregano will also start to expand on it’s own.
The rosemary was very reddish, it’s slowly getting greener. I hope it will grow into a small bush.
Don’t know how the thyme will fare this year. I had to transfer boxes so it’s kind of a mess.
And http://www.terracycle.net/main_plant_food.htm for organic fertilizers made from worm poo. 
-L
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