Garden starts 2016
May. 4th, 2016 06:06 pmLast year, despite 3 farmers market trips per week, we had a hard time keeping enough fresh vegetables in the house. I kept eating them all. Yay eating! But for this year I planned to plant our own green beans, which were the worst offenders, plus some herbs for salve-making and dyes. It's snowballed a bit since then.
I currently have the following seeds getting started in pots on the windowsill:
VEGETABLES
HERBS
I currently have the following seeds getting started in pots on the windowsill:
VEGETABLES
- 2 types of sweet red pepper
- japanese eggplant (the long, dark purple ones)
- zucchini
HERBS
- fenugreek (for greens)
- cilantro (for greens and seeds)
- zaatar, a syrian relative of thyme
- parsley
- black nigella (for seeds)
- nettle (for greens and shampoo bars, and possibly fiber for spinning)
- marsh mallow (the actual root, for salves and shampoo bars)
- yarrow (for yellow/green dye and salves)
- elecampane (expectorant & carminative)
- dyer's chamomile (for yellow dye)
- Coreopsis tinctoria (for red/orange dye)
- black hollyhock (for mauve dye in 2017)
- madder (for red dye in 2020)
- black sunflower (for gray/blue dye, and seeds)