Are you going to Granada fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme... Crazy. Cost-of-living crisis and all, but bloody #parsley in the local CoOp is shipped in from Spain. Parsley! #uk#brokenbritain
This time is about 700g and going to freeze them while waiting for the next batch to grow (I have one more with parsley, one with #leek, #coriander, #mint, and #dill that are not producing as much. Each unit has 15 grow holes. One is almost empty. I am missing #taragon and I'm missing Iranian Shanbalileh (شَنبَلیله یا به فارسی دری شینبل (نام علمی: Trigonella foenum-graecum) ) to have all vegetables I need except to spinach that is not worth growing in small space that I have to be self sufficient in having all necessary vegetables for cooking different Iranian dishes.
This single Ikea unit has givene 5 batch of parsley since I started it and ther are no sign of decline as ww are getting closer to summer.
It has already paid off the initial cost I paid for it and from now on, it's all profit. Next it trying to setup the Mimi tower unit to grow them with solar powered water pumps and sunshine (no artificial LEDs for this trial.
Just need to buy some fertilizer because running low.
Just planted an #herb bed in the #garden. I poured Italian parsley seeds into my hand, realized the packet held far more than I needed, and set the packet down, so I could give the rest to our neighbor, along with the entire sealed packet of cilantro* seeds that came in the set. As I lightly raked dirt over the seeds, a huge gust of wind came up and tossed the parsley packet up in the air where it briefly spun like a pinwheel then dropped to the dirt, empty.
Someday, someone's going to ask why I planted so damned much #parsley.
The gods willed it.
(Anything we don't use, the neighbor or the #pollinators will.)