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To: Diana in Wisconsin

A good idea might be to emphasize growing an herb garden.

Herbs are so expensive in the store, and God only knows where they come from.

More herbs are cold hardy than a lot of people realize. I just looked into it myself and found that as least half of the spices I use for cooking are cold hardly, so I decided to order some plants and start a small section of the graden as an herb garden.

If I had known that you sold stuff through mail order, I would have ordered from you, but I put the order in some time ago so it’s kind of too late to give you the business now.


57 posted on 02/15/2010 9:59:12 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

One herb I used just for fun was lemon thyme. Have only found it once since - at a greenhouse but they wanted almost $4 for a tiny start so I didn’t get it. I need to find some seed.

It’s great, you squish a leaf and smell your hand - it smells like lemon. And like other thymes - I’m sure it would grow between stepping stones and smell good as you walk over it.


60 posted on 02/15/2010 10:22:34 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: metmom

http://www.squarefootgardening.com/
I have one 4X4 raised bed that is pretty much dedicated to herbs for the kitchen I have dill, rosemary, tarragon, chives, basil, lemony grass stuff, parsley, hot peppers, and other stuff that strikes my fancy in there some of these herbs are such hardy perennials that they will try to take over the whole bed that’s one reason I do not have any mint. The almost invasive ones can go in one of those 3’ by 8” window box deals so you have them isolated


61 posted on 02/15/2010 10:24:53 AM PST by scottteng ( IMPEACH OBAMA and elect Snitker as Florida Senator)
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To: metmom

No harm done. Thanks for considering us, though. :)

As for herbs, I sell a ton of seed each season, and usually around 10,000 herb plants from April - June. Yes, you read that right - TEN THOUSAND herb plants.

No wonder I’m bone-tired at the end of the day, LOL!


130 posted on 02/15/2010 6:42:38 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
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