You haven’t lived until you’ve transplanted over 20 basil seedlings, a head of sprouting garlic, cilantro, dill, sage, to name a few.
I spent the better part of 3 hours yesterday do the very thing. I didn’t have the soil, and amendments that I wanted, so I used what I had. ALL of it. With Max’s help, I was able to use the 4 indoor gardening boxes that I’ve had for quite some time, plus some small, individual planters that I had in my potting area. I was able to bring home a whole head of garlic that was sprouting quite nicely, and now is in one of those larger planting boxes of which I spoke. I’ll show you what I did.
These are 3 of the 4 planters I used for the basil. Each has 4 plants in it, and the little sage is there to get the light. It sprouted while I was gone, and the one I had originally, died. This photo was taken just after transplanting, so everything is a bit shocked. 😳 They’ll recover just fine. Wait and see.
Here are the rest of the herbs- cilantro, Thai basil, Greek, and Italian oregano, Mexican tarragon, chives, and dill. All doing very well.
Here is the last container with 7 cloves of garlic. I planted the other 3 in individual little pots, mostly to use just the green shoots for seasonings, not to grow bulbs.
The last of the garlic cloves. Aren’t they so cute?😊
I used up the 5 gallon bucket I had of old dirt from previous plants that I’ve had since we’ve lived here. It was dry, and horribly dusty, full of rocks, and bits of this, and that. When I finished, there was fine powdery film of dirt everywhere. I vacuumed it up the best I could, then mopped. Yuck. I’m glad to be done with that part of this journey.
I watered each plant gently, no drowning involved, put them on the shelves as I was instructed, and voila, my own indoor herb garden was born.
I’ve ordered more prepared soil, and worm “castings”, (read worm poo), which should be here next week. I also ordered coconut coir, which, in the US, is available at any seed, and feed store. I have to order it from China. Ugh! But I can get it in brick form like I used to in Iowa. Win-win.
That’s enough for now. You’re probably tired of looking a minimally different sizes of the herbs I’m growing. Now I just need to learn how to cook with all of them. Another adventure. Stay tuned.
Until next time, stay happy, and healthy in the Lord.