Club Gardening - Herbs
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Anyone knows where I can buy those small plastic pots en masse at low price? The type used by IKEA etc to pot their small plants to sell. Thinking of growing many chilli plants! Thank you!
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http://i43.tinypic.com/kary9u.jpg\"> After reading these posts, I wanted to start my own herb garden. Never get to do it until TODAY! Show you guys my photos. How? I don't know if it will die on me tomorrow.
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peapot:
http://i43.tinypic.com/kary9u.jpg\"> After reading these posts, I wanted to start my own herb garden. Never get to do it until TODAY! Show you guys my photos. How? I don't know if it will die on me tomorrow.
Depending on the type of soil you've planted... a couple might not make it. You've planted herbs together that require different soil types. Thyme likes sandy loose soil... basil likes wetter fertile soil... mint likes clayey soil. You have all 3. One of them ain't gonna like your soil. -
The last time when i kept my herbs, there was termites in them. Did you buy the soil from the nursery?
Would definitely try to grow again!
Where can i get pandan leaves? -
For brinjals and lady fingers… I use the mixed garden soil from World Farm.
For temperate herbs (rosemary, thyme, tarragon, lemon thyme, dill, lemon bergamot, ) I use TREF potting soil (from Far East Flora) + perlite (from World Farm) in 1:1 proportion.
For basils (holy basil, thai basil and sweet basil) I use TREF potting soil neat.
For mints, I use burnt earth from Malaysia… very clayey.
Plants are like people, they need food. You need to fertilise often but a little bit each time. Mine get a rotated menu for balanced nutrition…
(1) Guanito
(2) Phenix
(3) Chicken manure
(4) Fermented milk (highly diluted)
(5) Seaweed extract
(6) Calcium sulphate
Edibles are difficult to grow if you don’t wanna use any pesticides. Every 3 weeks or so, I make the rounds of my brinjals and lady fingers with pieces of wet tissue that I use to wipe away pests from under the leaves. I have frequent aphid infestations on these 2 types of vegetable plants.
I get whitefly on chillis too… which must be inspected every week. Lucky I only have one chilli plant. Again, I use white tissue and a finger nail to scratch off the whitefly eggs from the underside of the leaves. If you leave it too long and a full blown infestation develops… it’ll be more work to get rid of and you’ll prolly need a pesticide. I don’t like pesticides on my veggies.
Whitefly like my sweet potato and my bayam too. But that’s no problem because the eggs are on the leaves, and every 2 weeks, the plant gets a heavy prune and all the leaves of the sweet potato and bayam go straight into my pot. The eggs give extra protein I guess. -
Chenonceau, Wa! you can tell what I have planted from this angle.
The problem is I asked the nursery is this soil suitable for all my herbs, he say can, can no problem. I think he wants to make more money from me. When the plants die, I need to go back to him!!
I have a total of 8 herbs. Pandan, curry leaves, laksa leaves, basil, thyme, lemon balm, lemon grass, oregano. The thing is the planter box is made in such a way, how do you divde the soil up? -
peapot:
Laksa leaves: clayey soil. Laksa loves water. It attracts mealybugs though.Chenonceau, Wa! you can tell what I have planted from this angle.
The problem is I asked the nursery is this soil suitable for all my herbs, he say can, can no problem. I think he wants to make more money from me. When the plants die, I need to go back to him!!
I have a total of 8 herbs. Pandan, curry leaves, laksa leaves, basil, thyme, lemon balm, lemon grass, oregano. The thing is the planter box is made in such a way, how do you divde the soil up?
Thyme and oregano need a mix of perlite and TREF (1:1).
Basil, lemon balm: TREF neat.
I'm not familiar with lemon grass habits.
You could put some wood dividers? I hope your area gets sun... these are all sun loving plants. The problem is that you've a mix of temperate and tropical herbs. If your basils do well, your thyme may not survive. If it does, it will be very skinny thyme with few leaves and sick looking. Not fat and juicy like mine (http://petunialee.blogspot.com/2008/11/thyme.html).
And if your thyme is happy, your laksa will not be because laksa loves water-logged soils and thyme likes dry, well-draining soils. Laksa likes fertile soil. Thyme likes poor soils. -
i found snails, tiny ones in the soil. Should I get rid of them or leave it alone?
will they eat up my herbs? Anyone got any idea? -
peapot:
Eeeeee... I hate them. They eat up my seedlings. I tried all ways BUT the best way is to go out on a night (about 9pm) after a rain with a bowl of vinegar and pick out the snails by torchlight. There are tiny ones that I leave there but there are others that REALLY eat up my veggies. Grrrrrrrrr!! :stompfeet:i found snails, tiny ones in the soil. Should I get rid of them or leave it alone?
will they eat up my herbs? Anyone got any idea? -
:? If snails eat up leaves then why you leave tiny snails alone. Shouldn't we get rid of them once and for all?