Gardening Thread 2021

[Alaskan]

You guys sound like a bunch of novices with the cilantro. And if you wait till it flowers, we consider it coriander and still useful in mescan food but not liked by many.
This picture is a tub ready to start cutting. Clear cut from one end to the other taking a hand size bunch and a tub like this last us 3 weeks eating it every day. Most times by the time i get to the end, i can go back over it another time. We grow it year round and find it does well indoors under lights and in the greenhouse once things warm up.
i use a johnny’s variety (calypso) and it never bolts, course we don't wait till its a rank weed to try and eat it either. Seed it thick like wheat grass, water it well and have at it. It’s one of the easiest things we grow.

Maybe because I don't seed it thick????

What you are growing looks great.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

Cilantro tastes like lemon scented soap to me.

 

[Alasgun]

Could be, it took a bit to get onto growing it this way. We eat enough of it that rows weren't cutting it, i would need 200 ft! then i noticed “in the instructions” them saying don't worry about seeding it thickly, it does just fine; and it dawned on me to seed it like wheat grass.

it’s one of the herb’s known to draw out heavy metal from your system and why we use so much of it.
We’ve grown it like you would think proper and dont care for it once it get’s some height and we never use it once it seeds.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

I wish I could grow cilantro. I bought a six pack of started ones last weekend. Dunno if I will get any decent amount out of it. Hubby absolutely loves it and cooks a lot of stir fries with it.

 

[Alaskan]

Could be, it took a bit to get onto growing it this way. We eat enough of it that rows weren't cutting it, i would need 200 ft! then i noticed “in the instructions” them saying don't worry about seeding it thickly, it does just fine; and it dawned on me to seed it like wheat grass.

it’s one of the herb’s known to draw out heavy metal from your system and why we use so much of it.
We’ve grown it like you would think proper and dont care for it once it get’s some height and we never use it once it seeds.

Well.... I will definitely give it a try growing the cilantro thick....

I have to find pots now for all of my sprouted peas... I am vacilating between stick a few in a huge permanent pot... and put them in smaller pots to transplant out... in a month...

But... hummmmmmm

 

[Alaskan]

Cilantro tastes like lemon scented soap to me.

Supposedly that is a genetic thing... either you taste soap... or you don't. Interesting.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

@Alaskan that's what I was told also.
What do vacillating mean..I think that's the first time I ever read that word in a sentence.

 

[Alaskan]

@Alaskan that's what I was told also.
What do vacillating mean..I think that's the first time I ever read that word in a sentence.

Vacillating is going back on forth as to what to do... so, indecisive.

 

[Niele da Kine]

Vacillating can be anything going back and forth; a choice, a decision, a needle on a gauge, etc. Doesn't have to be a concrete object, but it can be.

Gardening around here has become landscaping since the bulldozer left a week ago. We now have slopes scraped clean of Guinea grass and it's still rainy season, so I've been out there tossing grass seed around. Not sure what to cover the slopes with. Something that won't get too tall since there's a view we don't want blocked. Something that will choke out Guinea grass and all other weeds. Maybe something that smells nice since it's upwind of the lanai?

So far I've been considering Dragon's Beard mondo grass. That's a very dark green grass-ish (I don't think technically it's a real grass) plant that once it is established, would probably be great. It also likes to grow around rocks, so I can make a rock faced embankment and grow the mondo grass around the rocks and they will eventually cover the rocks and it will be a dark green slope that won't need mowing. However, it would most likely take about three years before it fully filled in which would be three years of weeding by hand while that was happening.

'Golden Glory' perennial peanut has also been under consideration. That will cover a slope and hold it in place, not sure about it's choking out the other weeds part, though. I want whatever grows there to be the only thing there eventually. It's also a yellow green overall color with yellow flowers. No scent and no peanuts either, I don't think?

I did just find the Zephirine Drouhin climbing rose I'd been looking for for awhile. Would a climbing rose make a good groundcover for a slope? It would smell nice and it's also thornless so it would be able to be weeded while waiting for it to fill in the slope. I only have the one plant at the moment, but it could be multiplied as it grows.

What else would make a good ground cover on a slope? Lavender? Gardenia?

 

[Alaskan]

I am pretty sure any rose will need to be weeded.

I think lavender grows thickly enough that it would be a good choice, and of course it smells great.

Does Salvia do well there? There are many kinds. They don't smell like anything, but they produce nectar and pollen so bees and hummingbirds love them.

Ok... you don't have hummingbirds... but whatever nectar feeders you do have will love them.

Once established i didn't have to weed my Salvia (back in Texas, Salvia would cry if planted where I live in Alaska, no heat). The Salvia does bloom way longer if you take the time to dead head the plants, but you do not have to.