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me literally yesterday: I'm all done buying seeds for the year so I can start planning things

me rn: well I really love seedkeeping and the work he's doing and he's got some incredible varieties....maybe I'll just.....look through the website............just looking...............

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dragonlady7

oh Soul Fire grows for them! Neato.
Funny too that Soul Fire grows their Sweet Annie. It's one of my favorites, partly because it's my sister's name. (She likes it too.) It holds more fragrance dry than most herbs, and we use it in the dried bouquets sometimes, but we didn't get a good crop of it this past year. It's such a good smell! It's like, sharp and herby but sweet, not flowery, not fruity. It smells like an old-fashioned apothecary shop, to me.

It's terrible when you link to seed sites because I want to buy seeds but I don't have a garden. :( And I've had Annie plant things for me before but my time is always so spotty there in the spring, I never manage to get things planted out that were for me, so they either get mixed in with the general pop, or they die rootbound and forgotten. :(

I want to grow Moldovan Balm now, though. Stoppit!

From:

unicornduke

no joke, I'll grow things for you. I've got plans to grow a few things out for other people already. Worst case, I shove them in pots and bring them up for you over the summer and they probably survive. They'd be fine too because it's just me working my plot. I guess maybe not perennials.....

I honestly don't know if I can resist seeds. I haven't been able to yet. My seed list is frankly absurd and there's so many more cool things! I'm at least saving money from year to year by saving my own seed so I can keep growing the things I've already got. I don't think I've bought the same variety twice except for maybe carrots. But I've got a plan for them this year kinda sorta (fuck biennials they're really annoying).

thank goodness I'm not really into herbs or flowers because I'd be REALLY broke then.

From:

dragonlady7

I'll probably get Annie to start a few things again this year, and then I'll try to make a better effort to remember to plant them out.
I need to overhaul the landscaping around the house in Buffalo, and I need to cut down a tree or two near the yurt and then I could landscape there too. I want to make a little native-plants grove near the yurt and slowly expand it outward into the surrounding woods, and I *have* started on it a little-- I have the whole hillside near the yurt covered in weighted-down tarps and things, mostly to kill back the brambles and poison ivy that grew there last summer.

I am pretty heavily into herbs and flowers, alas. Well, that's the part of the business I deal with, mostly. And all I want in the landscaping around the Buffalo house is herbs, I think I'd be delighted with just herbs most of the time. Maybe a few flowers but they're work, yknow??

From:

unicornduke

Some landscaping is nice, especially if you can get things to take over the rest *cough cough* mint

Flowers are a lot of work. you can't just stick them in the ground and see what happens. I mean, maybe you could...

From:

dragonlady7

My yard has only mint in it. Well, mint and jerusalem artichoke. that's it.
i brought some of my yard's feral mint to the farm because they have a perennial herb bed and Annie got mad and ripped it all out when it tried to take over the entire bed. i was like... but mint... does that and apparently not all mint does that. ("Not all mint!" LOL anyway.) THIS mint though, is like, mutant mega-mint and it tried to murder the chocolate mint and the apple mint and now there's no just mint-mint at the farm and it's all rubbish. (listen you cannot make mojitos with a peppermint like chocolate mint is, it's not on. must be spearmint. apple mint is also not spearmint. TERRIBLE.)
Maybe I'll establish a little feral mint bed out near the yurt somewhere but I don't know where I can safely isolate it. Maybe up at the gravel bank, where no one cares what goes wild in there.

Perennial flowers, you can kind of just abandon. I have some tulips and crocuses and snowdrops that have just gone nuts in my yard and they're quite nice. Annual ones, though-- I mean, if I have the time and I'm at home, I could get something like marigolds or whatever in there. Stuff that's not fussy about getting deadheaded.

What I need to do is rip out everything, put down thick sheets of cardboard, put mulch over the top, then cut in holes and plant the few things I want. But I need the time to do that, and when it's not freezing, I'm not at home, so.

From:

unicornduke

lmao mint is hilarious and great and I've only grown it in pots because I know it's power.

I attempted to make peppermint extract at some point because I had so much mint from that one pot...that must not have survived the move.

It was tall too, like three to four feet tall.

Yeah, the weeks away probably make it difficult to get yard work things done.

From:

dragonlady7

She put all the mints between a walkway and the driveway, so that at least one direction of their expansion would be constrained.
"My" mint went into the driveway, and choked out everything else in its bed, and crept under the walkway and popped up in the neighboring bed. She realized that her entire perennial bed was going to just be mint if she didn't root it out and good.
I don't see why she couldn't just keep beating it back to its proper spot, but she decided she needed to really get it out.
(I still occasionally find some, hiding next to the catnip, which also would take over the world if it could, so why can't they be together? It's prejudice; she likes the catnip because Reno lies in it so much.)
Maybe I'll try to re-establish a patch near the highway. Only I don't want to eat anything that near the highway...

The weeks away make it impossible to do any gardening, because Dude will not pull a weed or pay any attention to it, he won't water anything, he won't pick anything. I've grown flowers and vegetables and all kinds of stuff, and he just won't even look at it. All he'll do is mow the lawn. So if I bothered to plant flowers, I'd come back after weeks away and they'd be drought-dead and covered in weeds and there'd have been no point.