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- Glasgow
Well, inspired, I dropped into the poundshop, and found some little herb growing sets. Some compressed fibre compost and little pots with clear plastic domes to go over the top, but more important little sachets of cress, chive, and parsley seed - enough for an experiment. I'll grab some bottle caps tomorrow and have a play.If it works, then I'll invest the whooping £1.75 each in some bigger packs of seeds.
And then in Sainsburys there was a basil plant reduced to clear, so I'll repot it to make it more likely to carry on growing.
Arch, for some reason birds no not take cooking herbs for their nests. If you are lucky enough to have a spell of sunny days in your area you can leave them out. Basil, now, it will work, inside or in a greenhouse: I have made big basil plants from reduced pots in the supermarket. Great to make napoli sauce or homemade pesto.
But, don't ask me how the basil knows, even indoors, about the changing of the seasons
it will promptly die round about September.Only once I had a basil plant that seemed dead in the winter, but recovered in spring.
While, ime, parsley (I do not like cress and chives, so I don't grow them) winters well, even outside, in a pot, in a sheltered position.
Have you tried rocket in a wee pot? Great taste in salads!
I am also keeping a very close eye on the fox gloves, delphiniums and aquilegias, so that I can save the seeds and spread them further round the garden. I have also been told that the seeds from Agapanthus can be sown.
