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| January 2014! What a Winter! |
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| Got a Lot of Tea Blends Made! |
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| Sweet Basil Doing Well on a Cold Windowsill |
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| Chives Popping Up Late February! |
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| My Favorite, Lemon Verbena Needs a Trim-Late March! |
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| Found My Theme for 2014-Lemon and Some Lime! |
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| Mature Lavenders Didn't Fare So Well! |
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| Scented Geranium and Lemon Verbenas Are Doing Well! |
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| Always Excited Buying Herbs for the Garden! |
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| Got Some Interesting Lemon Herbs from Well-Sweep and Carolee |
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| The Herb Garden in Late May |
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| The Only Low Was Downy Mildew on the Sweet Basil! |
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| Healthy Seedlings One Minute And |
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| Diseased and Dying the Next! |
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| A Bright Spot Despite the Stink Bugs Was the Raspberry Crop! A Record! |
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| Still Picking Raspberries-November 4 |
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| Lots of Beneficials Including Some Preying Mantids-July |
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| Preying Mantis in October |
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| My Favorite Edible Rose-Rosa Rugosa 'Alba' |
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| 'Brother Cadfael' Rose |
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| Swallowtail Tail Butterfly on Sunflower |
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| Finches on Sunflower |
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| Not Much Lavender in Bloom This Year! |
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| One of My Favorites in July-Bee Balm |
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| Borage for the Bees |
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| Calendula--An Herbal Workhorse in the Herb Garden |
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| Pineapple Sage in Full Bloom in November! |
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| Always Have to Have Nasturtiums-a Peruvian Connection! |
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| First of Two Hundred Plus Figs in Two Containers! |
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| My Favorite Attracting Beneficials |
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| Here Are Cocoons of Parasitic Wasps on Lemon Verbena! |
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| Sweet Annie Wreath Celebrating the Herb of the Year 2014-Artemisia! |
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| Making Cinnamon Basil Jelly |
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| Tomato Sauce Ready to be Canned! |
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| Indoor Herbs Getting a Sunbathe Before Going Inside for Winter! |
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| Already Thinking About Next Year's Garden! |
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| Except for the Cold Temperature, It Doesn't Seem Like Winter! |
Decided to do one more post before the year comes to an end. For the most part 2014 was a great year. The winter was very cold and snowy, but herbs survived that I never thought would and others that had made it for years, were gone.
Figs and raspberries were the champions this year. We had over 200 figs in two container plants and I made 144 jars of raspberry jam. Both records. You can see my favorite herbal flowers in bloom.
The one tragedy is that the sweet basil in the garden got downy mildew. As you can see inside, sweet basil survives and does well. Soo we may have to grow sweet basil indoors until they can find a true sweet basil that is resistant to downy mildew outside in the garden.
Beneficial insects continue to be a joy. Now if we can breed enough preying mantids to control the stink bug population, we will have succeeded. Stink bugs were significantly worse on the fruit then herbs. I continue to have four-lined plant bug issues. I will talk about the lemon and lime themed herb garden in 2015. I think it was a success. We have several of the plants indoors. I will try to talk about each of them in depth in the coming weeks.
8 comments:
I'd say, you had a wonderful year in your lovely herb gardens.
May 2015 be a great year in all areas of your life.
Love & hugs to you dear LVL and HH.
FlowerLady
Lovely. Happy New Year. :)
Thanks dear FL! The Herbal Husband and I wish you happiness and health in 2015! Keep doing what you are doing! A big hug and kiss from both of us! LVL and The Herbal Husband
Thanks Linda! Hope you have a happy and very healthy 2015! xo
You had lots of wonderful things growing in your garden for 2014. Thanks for sharing all of the pictures. Happy New Year!
Thanks Susanne! Hope you have a great 2015! xo
What a beautiful year it was! (Except for the sad crop of Basil...). Here's to another bountiful and herbal year!
Thanks Rosemary! Yes, we will have to be creative from now on with traditional basil plants. I don't think they can be grown outside! :( Thanks for stopping by! xo
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