@SassyRocks you read my mind. I was just thinking i hadnt done an update. Basil went wild. Mint is growing. Thyme is healthy. Sage is coming along…i dont even know what i’ll use the sage leaves for. Ive cooked with the cilantro, basil, and thyme. Trashed the cilantro plant because it started flowering and wasnt flavorful.
I have sooooo much to learn on taking cuttings.
Oh wow, it looks so beautiful!!
Wow this is incredible. Very impressive.
@Cjp That looks great! What a harvest. Nothing better than fresh herbs 
@SassyRocks I normally use pots but for this sow probe the tiny containers were just right. They would have been thrown away after 3 weeks of no sprouting. They don’t get damped much. Just to stay a bit moist.
I’ll test some old seed if it’s still ok the next weeks, so more of this “catproof” arrangements will follow.
I’m looking forward to your pictures 
Thanks for the tip on lavender and deers. Once I hopefully own the farm alone I’ll give this a try to protect my veggie fields better. Brain runs wild on the idea of planting 200 lavender plants, another reason to make this dream come true. I’ve been entertaining this idea for about 6 years but noooo way with the ex. MAYBE this year 
I don’t have a garden as such, but we do have a wee balcony for growing fresh cat nip and a planter for herbs.
And I like my indoor few plants…
And my terrariums
A lavender farm is a wonderful thing. I have about 30 plants right now…more to come! Especially as the deer don’t care. Same for rosemary, sage, thyme, etc. And the herbs grow beautifully here and winter over.
Lovely terrariums!!
Dreary day lavender photos…a few of the all new gardens/works in progress, currently wintering…
@Tragicfarinelli I love your balcony and indoor plants 
@SassyRocks Georgeous. Me wanna too 
Maybe I give a fuck and order 200 plants. Orders where I want them from have to be placed by february, delivery from april on chosen date. dang, I can smell your harvest! 
As planned, I pricked out the seedlings today. Also sowed some very old seed (tomatoes, eggplants, various herbs) to test if it’s still germinable. Declutter your seed storage 
Before:
Pretty little Jalapenos 
See the roots in the glas!
Any one fancy seeing who can grow the tallest sunflower this year ?
I’m going to give it a go 
I’m in! Do we choose one specific variety or is everybody free to choose? I remember my tallest one 17 years ago was about 3+ meters
Ooooh I don’t know ? I just know I brought a few different seeds of the large variety and going to see what happens.
Give us something to keep busy 
3 metres !! Wow.
We have so many beautiful seeds here available, I plan on sowing them from white, yellow, orange to dark red and coloured in a row. Have been dreaming of it for years and always postponed it.
The tall one grew in a freshly filled raised bed
They are coming along nice. I haven’t started yet it’s too wet and cold where I’m on the UK ATM.
So I brought a few tomatoe varieties and sunflowers seeds. Just to keep me busy and see how they grow outdoors.
I usually start them indoors but exhausted from moving so going to just see how they do straight outside in a few weeks.
Definitely give your dream a go, it will look beautiful
OOH i’m in – tried many times in the past and failed- will try in this new location. 
I can’t put giant sunflowers on a fourth-floor window box; I’d have authorities knocking at the door in a minute. I might ask my mum for a corner of her garden, though.
But I’m itching to plant my cherry tomatoes. At the moment I’m drying some seeds out of actual cherries, and I’ll start them indoors this weekend.
Mother’s Day here (mid May) in my growing zone in America is known as the time to be planting. I don’t have a space to start seeds indoors but there are things I can sow in the ground with enough time to grow still here. I usually buy starter plants from local growers at our farmer’s market and have great luck with that. So, still a long ways out for me! I will have lots of prep work to do, though. Building some raised beds and digging up turf for beds in the ground will be a lot of work.
my now seedlings are result of seeds so old I just wanted to see if they are still growable. I would never have expected this outcome! and the notorious lazy ones, even 8 years old, are sprouting a bit. i’ll have a difficult time fostering them till may - here we are also careful because weather can be summerish in march and frosty in april till may 
thank you climate change. at their actual growing rate I’ll have to replant them twice. Challenge accepted, I’ve done a similar chance growing years ago and harvested end of june. They are too healthy to abandon them (I would when they show signs of detoriation due to old seed).
my today check is an old maze variety, harvest 2016. As two colleagues from ARCHE NOAH asked for seed, I check if and how they’ll sprout. I’m a weirdo and and I’m grateful that after years I get back to things I’m good at. Still loving it 
It will be interesting for sure, seeing the difference in growth over the world 
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