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What are your garden goals for 2025? (self.greenspace)

submitted 3 days ago by LallyLuckFarm to c/greenspace

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Are you planning big changes, or minor tweaks to a working system? Are there new-to-you plants you're excited to try your hand at? Let's share our dreams and goals and inspire each other!

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[–] bownage 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Not entirely sure yet. I'm going to go for some things I tend to wish I had fresh when I'm buying them for cooking, like thyme and sage. Maybe oregano and basil too but I think I might use too much of that to grow it myself. My balcony can only hold so many plants 😅

Herbs for teas are a great use. Do you have suggestions? My cousin gave me some homegrown lemon verbeina a couple years back and I loved that so maybe I should try growing some of my own.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 18 hours ago

Both Thyme and Sage are cold tolerant perennials so good to grow even on a balcony. We have thyme in a portion of our yard which grows like crazy. I made some infused vinegar and thyme tincture with it.

Last summer we started buying basil plants from the grocery store instead of basil leaves because it's the same price. We had two in rotation until we stripped one bare and then replaced it. We put the bare one in the ground in our garden which did regrow a little by fall. So I would do that for Basil because you really go through it for dishes.

I did lemon verbena which grew great. I got tons of it by harvesting it every few weeks to dry. I did the same with catnip (which humans can also drink btw), mint and lemongrass. Really most of those should work in a pot. Really whatever you like to drink. We won't ever grow enough mint to fulfill our needs so we buy dried in bulk but for the rest we got enough for the year I think