Re: balm and other herbs
- Subject: Re: balm and other herbs
- From: A*
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 18:27:49 -0400
I have mint spreading all around my pasture--sheep won't eat it. It's in
company with daffodils, thistles, and burdock--cultivated by having the
competing grasses removed. The only virtue is when they walk through it it
smells great. Judy Warner
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From: <ECPep@aol.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 12:56 PM
Subject: balm and other herbs
> In a message dated 5/5/02 8:37:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> cherylisaak@adelphia.net writes:
>
> << We have a different view of a lawn - lots of stuff that isn't grass,
> like clover and birds foot trefoil and violets, all mowed to 3
> inches. I have chives >>
>
> The chives being an Allium can survive all. They do survive under the
lawn
> mower and we have them, too. In an area uncut (as yet not found by the
lawn
> mower person) the chives grow and spread much more vigorously than in an
> herb pot so if you don't want a chive field keep them contained also.
>
> Two "herbs" that grow in any soil and move like any army are horseradish
and
> chives. For all the poor reputation of the mints, they do not do well in
dry
> soils. I was amazed one spring to look over part of a field here and see
the
> chives in bloom. I did not know we had this "chive garden".
>
> I haven't seen any balm since I moved over ten years ago. That is one way
to
> have it gone.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
>
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