#herbs2018

I decided to give some love to my Italian herbs today! Left to right: thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano.

This photo shows the planter after I trimmed several stalks from the left side of the oregano, which were crowding the sage.

Thyme was also looking really unruly so I trimmed it, too, especially the right side where I want the rosemary to have more room to grow. I also pinched some of the stalks just above a node, where two stalks will develop now that the main, single stalk is gone! (I didn’t do this to the oregano because it’s already the right size.)

The sage looks about right to me, so I left it alone.

April 30, 2018

Here’s my herb container, 11 weeks apart. I bought and planted these plants during a warm spell a couple months ago, thinking that winter was over, but I really jumped that gun! We’ve since had a few more frosts and a lot of rain, but we are starting to get more and more sun and warmth now, which is what these herbs like, so they are growing a lot!

The oregano wasn’t doing well at first. I believed it to be too waterlogged, so I moved into one of the tomato pots, which had very well-drained soil, and it started to do much better. It was probably 8 weeks before I moved it back into this rectangular planter, and it’s still doing just fine! Unlike the oregano, the sage has been fine without any special treatment. The beautiful rosemary seems to have hardly grown at all, and I believe that is due to a lack of sun.