[Herbalist] Growing stuff this summer

[Sheron Buchele Rowland]

Here in the front range of Colorado, it's actually been a wet summer.  We 
have actual water that falls from the sky!  There are places in eastern CO 
that have not had significant rain for over a decade that have actual 
puddles on the ground.

You can order good herb plants from Rabbit Shadow Farms here in Loveland, 
CO.  They advertise sometimes in the Herb Companion.

Your poor garden!  I don't like growing from seed anymore especially with 
herbs.  My luck has been really abysmal in general.  Yes, basil and thyme 
are easy, but so many are just not!  We have had herds of elk and black 
tailed deer through this spring and summer.  They love tulip buds!  They 
ate all of my spring flowers or trampled them that were nummy.

If you want to come by and dig, I have tons of thyme and oregano.  They 
haven't been at all discouraged by the rain.  We have had 5 years of hard 
drought and then this midwestern style summer.  It is too weird.  We even 
have humidity!

Hope things get better for you!  I like to plant in the late summer or 
early fall for my baby herb plants.  They seem to get a toe hold better and 
then the winter rests them.  Then they act like 3 year old plants the 
following spring.

Hope everyone is doing alright.  My closed head injury is much better but I 
am still not what I was or out of pain.

Any fun projects going on?

Leonora
Outlands

At 11:29 AM 8/18/04, you wrote:
>I've had limited success growing things this summer. I
>ordered some plants from Richter's, which got here in
>OK condition, but ground squirrels ate everything but
>the Iris. I got some weld and coreopsis seeds to grow
>for dyes, and the squirrels got to the seedlings and
>ate them, and kicked the peat pots everywhere.
>My husband decided unilaterally to move a plant bed
>and I lost a nice patch of thyme and oregano.
>It's been very hot, and we're in a drought, so stuff
>is in poor condition all around. Even the oranges were
>skimpy and flavorless. Squirrels and birds denuded the
>apricots. Sigh.
>Hope the rest of you had better luck.
>Edwinna
>
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