Advice please.
I have decided on rosemary, mint, and marjoram to start. I have some containers and some dirt. Are these all easy to keep alive? Is there something else I should try instead or in addition to these?
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GazeboGal Looking forward to the Ursid meteor shower!!
How fun!
I always plant thyme right next to marjoram, since when I cook I always use them together – perhaps choose silver-thyme with light-colored foliage for contrast with the marjoram.
The thyme and marjoram (and chives) can’t be killed by transplanting, winter, neglect, or having loads of wood chips dumped on them.
Mint can’t be killed by any force known to Humankind. Keep it in containers unless you’re happy to have it wandering through your yard. And your neighbor’s yard. And across the road.
Rosemary I can’t speak to – I do well with it indoors, but it doesn’t respond as well to my benign neglect outdoors as the others :)
Mint is creepy!
I keep hearing horror stories about mint. I bet landlord would love the everlasting gift of never having to cut the grass again. :)
Thanks for your help.
GazeboGal Looking forward to the Ursid meteor shower!!
Mint lawn
I had a mint lawn once – it smells wonderful! If you don’t pick it or walk on it, however, it will grow to about a foot. But if you play Frisbee on it, the mint oil is released, smells wonderful, and in that quantity can make the players giddy. (remember, catnip is a mint!)
(Oooh, visions of a catnip lawn! All the neighborhood cats lolling in our yard…)
