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Comment by Robin zone 5 22 hours ago

Once all my holiday stuff gets put away, and my house gets put back to normal I'm going to start my herbs inside. A good thing about Jan and being in zone 5 is that you know in 2 months the thaw begins. It's really not that far away.

Comment by Karen Henderson z5/Ohio 23 hours ago

I am also ready to start gardening but of course my gardens are under lots of snow and more on the way tomorrow! One of my Christmas presents was a gift certificate for seeds and the catalog arrived today. My eight year old grandson and I have been studying the catalog and dreaming about what we want to plant. I definitely will be adding more herbs this summer.

Comment by Jeanette Anteola 1 day ago

I am so very ready to start planting. Holding off, planning...waiting...yuck on waiting! I am on going on my second year of gardening in a new home, and a new invironment...moved from TX to CO. Way different.

Comment by Nannette Richford 1 day ago

Hi all. Newbie here from Maine. Not growing anything at the moment, but the seeds are beckoning. :) I've had an "herb garden' for 20 years, but moved last year and had to leave it behind. I tried my hand at raised bed this year and can't want for spring.

Comment by Debra Hughes on December 16, 2009 at 10:10pm

Hay there, Newbie here too. Being a newbie I am not familiar to the website at all but am hoping to be able to offer something to ya'all. I am here in New England in the Foothills of the Berkshires in Pioneer Valley.

I love herbs and grow somein the greenhouse that my DH built for me this year.It is against the south side of the house so the heat from t he house can help the plants live through the coldest nights and days. It will be zero here tonight with wind. Even the cat came in from her night-time prowling. That's okay cause there are plenty of mice inside this year...We should have know it was going to be really cold this year with all the mice that moved in at the end of Thanksgiving weekend. Very abby-normal. Chat soon I hope.

Comment by Rhonda Fleming Hayes on December 11, 2009 at 10:07am

Hi there, I'm new to the herb group. I grew herbs extensively in my kitchen garden back in Kansas, I now live in Minnesota and have more shade, and obviously more cold, so my focus has shifted a little. I grew Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) and it wanted to take over everything, I would call it tenacious, those runners are something else! I would be cautious with it. I write a garden blog called The Garden Buzz, stop by and visit.

Comment by Darlene Sunseri on December 11, 2009 at 9:24am

I'm seeing tansy mentioned a lot. Which Tanacetum are you growing? There are about 70 varieties. I live in a farming community and we all work hard to keep Tanacetum vulgare, eradicated. It is extremely invasive and toxic to livestock. I have grown Tanacetum niveum "White Bouquet Tansy" in my herb garden. It is a beautiful mounding tansy with the same strong herbal scent, it propagates easily by seed but I've found it easy to control.

Comment by Lee Ann Phillips Zone 7B TX on December 5, 2009 at 4:55pm

What's the deal with the activity updates? When I started typing this, it said 2 hours ago, but the latest comment I see is from November 23 at 8:12 am. I typed this just to see if it would update the activity log.

Comment by Kay Carnes on November 23, 2009 at 8:12am

Be careful when considering planting tansy - it is very invasive and spreads by seed as well as underground runners. It is a good ant and fly repellant and the flowers dry well when picked early. If you can keep it in a pot or an isolated area it is worth growing. I'm not sure about the alleopathic claim - I have several plants that grow with. Most likely, it will over-grow and choke out less hardy or smaller plants.

Comment by Lee Ann Phillips Zone 7B TX on November 21, 2009 at 1:55pm

Hi there, I'm new to this group. To Melissa: I have grown Tansy in a pot (5-gallon size). I love it, it's so big and rather lacy-looking, and the yellow flowers are small but pretty-they remind me of yarrow but much smaller. I crush the leaves and scatter them around the doors of the house-they're supposed to keep ants out. I think it works. But I have read that Tansy is allelopathic (not hospitable to other plants), so I'm halfway afraid to put it the ground. I will try that as soon as I can figure where I would put it if I don't mind it adversely affecting other plants nearby. I live in northeast Texas (Zone 7B), so it will survive in the ground here. Butterflies do like it, but not as much as some other stuff I grow like Autumn sage, lantana and zinnias.
I have a question for anyone who might have the answer. I have a huge rosemary plant that is growing close to where the road in front of my house is to be widened in a few years. I would like to move it and, while it's being moved, go ahead and divide it. Everyone I've talked to says since it's so woody when it gets this big, that won't work. Has anyone tried dividing a rosemary bush when it gets about 4'x4''? Or should I just get cuttings and sacrifice the big plant to the road dept.?

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