Garden 2024

[pepperhead212]

I got my hydroponics set up, with the nutrients leveled out, and added some "Karma", and some micorrhyzae powder last night. Today, I got the rooted cuttings planted - all that's left to do is plant seeds (I'm just drawing it up now). I planted all of the basils, but I won't need 2 of any of them - I'll just wait and see which grow best. I have a few new varieties of seeds, but most are tried and tested. I semi-sterilized those cuttings, before planting them, by doing a dunk in a hydrogen peroxide solution - 1 tb/a pint of water.
All of the basil cuttings rooted in 7 days, the Thai basil with a little fewer roots. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The red Epazote all rooted strong, in about 15 days. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Epazote and basil cuttings, planted in the larger hydro tub. Seeds get planted later. 10-30 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The smaller hydro tub, for seeds later. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[Kathleen]

My rose bush is missing all its leaves. It looks like deer damage but I don't see where a deer could even get to the rose bush and the sunflower on the other side is just fine. Plus, all the blooms on it are still there, too. Do roses lose their leaves in the fall?

My roses will lose leaves at various times of the year only to grow them back. Right now, my roses look a little scrappy. And they will have a few leaves off and on throughout winter, but will bush back out come spring. I will advise that roses are hungry little bushes, so do feed them. I'm terrible at keeping on a feeding schedule, so I have been using this product for the past few years. It's spendy but a little goes a long way. I have two lines of rose bushes and purchased this in March of 2021. I still have some leftover.

 

[pepperhead212]

I got almost all of the seeds planted in the hydroponics, the Russian kale, the white stem bok choy (had good success last year with this not bolting quickly), and the new Koquie bok choy, that I've only grown this fall. I'll see what it does inside. I planted the new Landrace Mizuna, and the standard green Mizuna. And some leaf lettuce, from seeds that I saved from that plant that went well into August, before bolting. And 3 cilantro, of 2 varieties - Burpee, and Leisure. Only one parsley - the curly (but not triple curly) variety, as the roots in the flat leaf varieties are just too massive, for this. And just the one new Persian dill - I'll be getting new seeds for the Dukat from the outside plants. And one Arugula, which I'll have to plant maybe every 3 weeks, as it grew fast, but bolted fast, so I have to just use it up fast, and pull the roots out, which I won't let get overgrown (last year was my first time with this in hydro).

Oh yeah - I almost forgot that Za'atar I planted - some other new seeds I got from trueloveseeds.com A couple other herbs I got from them I didn't try, as the plants are way to large - 3 and 5 feet tall! They are the Quillaquiña, or Bolivian Coriander, and the Huacatay, or black mint. I got seeds years ago for the Huacatay, but had no germination, so hopefully these will do better.

 

[larry_stewart]

Didn't know Za'atar was its own herb/ spice. I always thought it was the mixture with them, sesame seeds and sumac.

Do you use the leaves, seeds or both fro this plant ?