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RKayne's posts about: triple curled parsley
Jan 17, 2008 | 10:56 AM PST
Tags: triple curled parsley , compost , companion planting , tomatoes , kohlrabi , Walla Walla Onions , cold frame , garlic
We are in zone 7B here. Almost time to gear up! I have a couple of the large boxes that salad comes in so am going to introduce our youngest to cold framing. He is going to grow Kohlrabi this year so it looks like, the best bet, would be to go ahead and cold frame the starts at the end of this month, beginning of next as our last frost SHOULD be about March 24th.
The other item he is going to grow is Walla Walla sweet onions. He got the area ready and composted in Fall so they will have he perfect setting and I plan to place them randomly as they also lend to being a pest deterrant.
I need to get a new pic of my Parsley, you can't see it between the last of the tomatoes there but it has gone plumb crazy with the nice cold weather, beautiful tufts of green-ness, like giant green snowballs (the pastry...if you can call them that, haha). I had put it in for two reasons, one, I love fresh parsley, but more so for the fact that parsley and tomatoes are companion plants. I had the added benefit of having something nice and green through these winter months on my side.
Interestingly enough, the garlic (this hedges his space, sides and back, random side and back on my side) decided to come up with our warm snap. Nature came to her sense and was all over the being winter again these past few days and the garlic does not seem to care so maybe it will just keep going. G there is excited as this is the first results he is seeing for all his hard work, he went out the other day 'just to look at the garlic'. Hard to teach an 8 year old patience but he has been pretty good at it (or he just kinda forgot for a bit, hehe).
May 7, 2007 | 1:44 PM PST
Tags: salad leaf basil , globe basil , triple curled parsley , sprouts , garlic chives , Provencal Basil
I sowed some salad leaf basil, globe basil, garlic chives and triple curled parsley about a week ago and I have sprouts! I know the basils are up but in the other box (I like to use the cardboard flats like you get bottled water in) I am not sure if it is the parsley or the chives that are starting to come up yet! I would take pics, but as those here know, they don't look like anything yet. My Partner, I told her they were sprouting and she goes to look and says 'I don't see anything!' so I went over and showed her the tiny white starts and she goes 'Oh, I figured there would be something green!'. I will be sharing these a lot, I am sure...something came over me and I sowed the whole dang pack of seeds...all of them...some scattered here and there in the yard as well! We shall see what comes up. As for Basil, I take it when it gets heavy growth, chop it up and freeze it in cubes with just enough water to create 'basil cubes', bag them up and have fresh basil year round. I don't think it dries all that well...I have a few requests for baby herbs so guess that will help a bit...or I will be standing downtown with a tray of herbs asking for people to adopt them! No, worse case scenario and craigslist will get that listing (bring own dirt and pot!), hehe.
