Balcony garden season 2025 officially started. ☺️ This year's selection is Basil (traditionally every year now), then Thyme and Oregano. ☺️
The scent is heavenly. 🤩

#balconygarden #basil #thyme #oregano

Perennial Herbs https://gardeningsoul.com/plant-once-harvest-forever-15-perennial-herbs-that-keep-on-giving/ #Thyme #Oregano #Chives #Mint #Rosemary #Sage #Lavender #Tarragon #LemonBalm #Fennel #Lovage #WinterSavory #BayLaurel #HorseRadish #Sorrel #PerennialHerbs #Herbs #SolarPunkSunday

Sunflower number two acquired! :neofoxfloofowo: I really like these tiny ones, they are about 20cm high. For some reason bumblebees ignore them. Maybe they will like my giant ones, currently in progress.

The bees however love my thyme. Seems the invasion force has finally found it. I almost gave up on it and thought it didn't survive the winter because it's kinda old by now, but with warm weather it suddenly exploded.

I really love the smell of blooming thyme. If you never had one, you should! They smell really lovely. :neofoxheart:

#Sunflower #Thyme #Bees #Bloomscrolling

#SilentSunday
#fleurs de thym #thym
#flowers #thyme
#montagne #moutain

Guten Morgen, good morning! 🌞
Happy weekend everyone!🌸🌿💮

#Bloomscrolling #Thymian #Thyme #Trockenmauer #DrystoneWall #GartenLiebe #Gardening #Spring #Frühling #Berlin

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🪻 #Lavender has #analgesic, #antifungal, and #antiseptic qualities. This means that in addition to preventing #mosquito bites, it can calm and soothe the skin.

🌿 #Thyme oil is one of the best at repelling malarial mosquitoes. You may also want to throw thyme leaves into a #campfire. Research shows that burning thyme leaves offers 85 percent protection for 60 to 90 minutes.

https://www.healthline.com/health/kinds-of-natural-mosquito-repellant#What-to-look-for-in-natural-mosquito-repellents

🚫🦟 #malaria #DEET #MosquitoRepellent #InsectRepellent #EssentialOils

A spring gardening surprise: green leaves instead of green shoots

So much is terrible in the world right now, but at least I’m not looking at lettuce as a grocery line-item expense on the first day of spring. That’s not because I’ve renounced leafy greens as a sandwich fixing, but because the spinach and some of the arugula that I grew from seed in the fall somehow survived winter.

Alongside them in the raised bed outside the back patio, parsley and, even less likely, cilantro have staged their own late-winter resurrections.

I can’t imagine why even the most fault-tolerant of these plants should have done that. This winter, unlike many in recent years, not only had extended hard freezes but multiple snow days that left that bed buried in snow for days at a stretch. Even building a cold frame should have been inadequate.

Having done nothing to prolong those crops, I should have had to start from scratch about two weeks before today, scattering dirt and seeds and looking forward to seeing the first green shoots emerge from the soil later this month.

(To anybody reading this intimidated by the idea of starting a vegetable garden: It’s hard to screw up arugula in the spring, and it’s also hard to find a recipe that can’t be improved with a little of it.)

Instead, after 20 years of having this questionably-productive hobby, I now need to decide if want to dig up some of these survivors to try growing some lettuce to mix things up. And if this means that my long losing streak of trying to cultivate tomatoes might be due for a change in a couple of months. This unearned gardening luck is not much in the larger scheme of things, but I’ll take it.

#arugula #cilantro #gardening #kitchenGarden #lettuce #March #overwinter #seasons #spinach #springEquinox #thyme #vernalEquinox #winter

Dear uncomplicated Friends,

I have to make lunch soon. I keep it as simple as possible. I find it helps health to add garlic, turmeric, ginger and olive oil.

Been looking at #proactive #health, through #diet, #exercise etc.
Not up to speed yet, so welcome any ideas? Too much sitting in front of a screen, needs to be #balanced by movement. I get that.

Anyways time for me to harvest some #thyme, #sage and chop #garlic...
😋

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_living

Pikant
Spicy
März 2025
#sundaygimp -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/44306

#essig #öl #thymian #gewürze #digitalart #gmic #gimp #fotobearbeitung #digital #PhotoEditing #vinegar #oil #thyme #spices #photo #foto #bildbearbeitung #photomanipulation #art

taking the time
to make the thyme count
tonight's dinner

#amwriting #observations #inspiration #thyme #dinner #poetry #haiku #senryu #3lines #smallpoems #mpy

2024 gardening scorecard: abundant arugula

After twenty years of practice at growing vegetables around our house, the results of the 2024 gardening season suggest that the experience really has taught me something about cultivating a particular leafy green. Tomatoes, alas, remain an opportunity for continued learning.

(For your reference: my 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 gardening grades.)

Arugula: A+

After a few years of this delicious, versatile green being a spring-only benefit, the seeds I sowed in September exceeded all expectations–even after multiple frosts that felled lesser plants. Better yet, I saw some arugula growing in the lawn next to this raised bed; if that self-sowing trend continues, in a few years I may be able to graze on my own lawn like a sheep.

Herbs: A

Basil was another pleasant surprise: I could have made pesto sauce almost every week. Parsley did great too, allowing me to make parsley-walnut pesto for the first time in a while, and I also had my first good season in years of growing thyme (in a raised bed that I inexpertly rebuilt after the old one rotted apart). Rosemary and mint did well for a stretch, but I didn’t take enough advantage of them before a dry spell took out both.

Peppers: A-

My wife’s decision a few years ago to augment the two raised beds I’d built with a wheeled planter in the driveway paid off again with a great crop of bell and jalapeño peppers that represented some of our most cost-effective gardening efforts.

Spinach: B-

This played a small second fiddle to arugula, with modest spring and fall crops that I could throw into pan sauces or use as a fancier-than-usual quesadilla filling–but not enough to make a salad out of.

Tomatoes: C-

Sigh. My luck was better with plum tomatoes than with slicing tomatoes, but once again I had an unfortunate lack of overlap between fruit starting to ripen, sufficient rain to propel that process, and my being around to eat the results.

Lettuce: D

I got a few sandwich fixings’ worth out the seed packet I planted… which is a not-awful rate of return considering what lettuce costs at a supermarket and how badly it can age in the fridge.

Beans: D-

I chalk this subpar outcome up to inattentive gardening. But it’s not like I didn’t have enough other plants to tend to over those summer months.

#arugula #basil #beans #bellPepper #greens #homegrown #jalapeno #kitchenGarden #lettuce #locavore #parsley #peppers #rocketLettuce #spinach #thyme #tomato #tomatoes

@mcmullin I am honestly just gonna wear one all the #Thyme now. #MasksForPartisans #MasksForFreedom

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#raepublic #strawberrylimewater #infusedwater #healthyrecipes #homemadebeverages #thyme #strawberries #limes

@Giselle it’s soooo easy. For the herbs I am pretty happy with most #Italian herb mixes: #oregano #basil #thyme and sometimes I like to add #rosemary - I just make it up, but usually 2 parts oregano and one part the others. This marinara also makes great #pizza sauce if you reduce it down a bit more.

I start with a low heat. Just enough to gently sizzle the garlic for 15-30 seconds so it starts to get aromatic. Too much and the garlic goes bitter.
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