Gardening

[cjsmith]

CA Bay Area garden-savvy folks, if you wanted to plant herbs and/or a few veggies (corn, tomatoes, cantaloupe, carrots) and you hadn't done a blessed thing up 'til now -- no seedlings in pots in a sunny room, nothing -- what would you choose to plant soon?

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh darn. Well, I do like chamomile tea, so maybe it'd be worth the extra effort. And mint is scrumptious! I have a few favorite herbal teas, one of which is peppermint. :-)

[oddhack.livejournal.com]

You had best be pinching off mint roots as well as leaves, so it doesn't take over the garden and strangle you in your sleep.

OK, I exaggerate a bit, but mint does like to spread via root network if not watched... morning glories are the ones that grow so fast they'll strangle you in your sleep (but oh, so pretty).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we used to have some form of mint in our Palo Alto apartment's garden and it was nearly evil in its ability to take over the world. When we redid the entire plot -- including ripping out the ill-conceived concrete-and-wood tiered structure underneath all the dirt with a sledgehammer -- the mint didn't die. :)