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Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
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Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
I'm looking for some advice about ensuring some herbs I left in my SFG over the winter thrive this year. I've got rosemary, oregano, parsley, and thyme that I just left in the box. The rosemary continued like gangbusters all winter, but the others died away a bit. In addition, I've got a pot with some German thyme that I really love that keeps coming back year after year. In all cases, the soil has gotten a bit compacted or the square is running over with the actual plant. How can I work in some compost to give them a boost without destroying the plants themselves?
moswell-
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Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
For most herbs that grow as perennials (chives, thyme, lemon balm, etc), you can pull the whole plant out, then separate it into several sections. You can use a sparp knife or spade to chomp right thru it. Replant one section in the square and give away the others or plant elsewhere.
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Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
quiltbea wrote:For most herbs that grow as perennials (chives, thyme, lemon balm, etc), you can pull the whole plant out, then separate it into several sections. You can use a sparp knife or spade to chomp right thru it. Replant one section in the square and give away the others or plant elsewhere.
lol - when I kill it can I blame you?

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Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
+1quiltbea wrote:For most herbs that grow as perennials (chives, thyme, lemon balm, etc), you can pull the whole plant out, then separate it into several sections. You can use a sharp knife or spade to chomp right thru it. Replant one section in the square and give away the others or plant elsewhere.
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
Okay, I'll try it this weekend. But I warn you, I tend to kill things that rely on me in any way whatsoever to survive. 

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Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs


Think positive!

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Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
Did you have children, moswell?moswell wrote:Okay, I'll try it this weekend. But I warn you, I tend to kill things that rely on me in any way whatsoever to survive.
Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
"If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener."
Go for it and if you kill the plants then you will learn how not to do it in the future. Learn and keep getting better. Don't worry about a few sacrificial plants along the way. Since you had these plants last year it is a bonus if you keep them alive and no loss if you accidentally kill them.
Go for it and if you kill the plants then you will learn how not to do it in the future. Learn and keep getting better. Don't worry about a few sacrificial plants along the way. Since you had these plants last year it is a bonus if you keep them alive and no loss if you accidentally kill them.
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Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
H_TX_2 wrote:"If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener."
Go for it and if you kill the plants then you will learn how not to do it in the future. Learn and keep getting better. Don't worry about a few sacrificial plants along the way. Since you had these plants last year it is a bonus if you keep them alive and no loss if you accidentally kill them.
That's an excellent way of thinking about it! I'd hate to have to buy more herbs or wait until they regrow from seed, but I suppose it wouldn't be the end of the world.

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Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
There well may be a degree of truth to this adage, however I believe that one exhibits wisdom, that kills not the entire garden.H_TX_2 wrote:"If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener."
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: Bringing life back to overwintered herbs
Well yes. Everything in moderation.
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