Hello friends and happy June!!! I know, I’m a little late to the June party, it just goes to show how fast the month is flying by. Now that we are about half way through June it’s time to go back and visit some of our planting projects from the spring. As you may remember Jen and I planted herb pots back in April/May (you can read about HERE and HERE).
Here is Jen’s pot…
Such a lovely pot with the flat leaf parsley reaching to the heavens with the Thai basil not far behind. It looks so delicious!
And then there is my pot… Sigh.
My kids have a book by Sandra Boynton called Red Hat, Green Hat in which a turkey insists on putting articles of clothing on in the wrong manner. The book simply says “oops”. My pot is definitely feels like an “oops” and I must say I’m a little disappointed. We just returned from a 2.5 week trip back to the Northwest and before we left we dropped the pot off at our community garden for the duration of our trip. Now before you go thinking that I’m about to blame the state of my herbs on my fellow community gardeners I’m not. They did what they could, even moving the pot to a shadier spot as it didn’t seem to be taking the sunlight very well. I’m so thankful they were able to take care of our herbs and pumpkins while we were gone. If not for them all of our plants would be gone.
After conferring with my Plantlady we agree the herbs simply need more water. Unfortunately in our work to get ready for our trip it’s likely I neglected my plant duties and forgot to water before we left not giving it a great start before we moved it to the community garden. My husband and I will transport the container back to our house this week and nurse it back to health. I’ll keep you posted on our progress.
Back to Jen’s pot. We will be posting some yummy recipes to use with our home grown herbs so stay tuned. In the meantime drop us a line and let us know what your favorite herb uses are. Do you dry yours or use them fresh? What’s your favorite dish? We’d love to hear from you!
