Lavender

[skeetermonkey]

Every single seed of lavender seems to have germinated, and only in 4 days

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[peregrinejohn]

Speaking of fruition, be sure to nip any would-be seed stalks in the spinach as fast as you see them. Dang stuff bolts to seed something fierce. Good fall crop around these parts, anyway.

[skeetermonkey]

WIll do. Assumed it was like Basil.

[peregrinejohn]

It is, in that way, but even more so: better suited for cool temps, more eager to put up flowers (which clobbers the flavor of both plants), kind of tiffy about too much dry heat.

Oh yeah - to get only too much harvest out of 1 or (if brave) 2 plants, go with zucchini. Or an heirloom cherry tomato like Yellow Pear, which tastes great and puts out hundreds of fruit. As soon as I can get my garden back on track, I'll be putting in no more than 2 of each of those.

I like to do beans and peas for that reason too, but it's more of the idea of planting in waves. They grow fast and make a fair bit in a small space, and if you wait a week or two between planting thirds of them, you'll have a glorious long harvest.

Not that it makes any difference to you yet, but having something harvestable daily makes kids really happy.

[skeetermonkey]

I like having harvestable daily for me, too. Ah, spinach... I have a variety that supposedly won't bolt as much and is more heat resistant. We'll see. I've had 50/50 results so far. (3 seedling deaths, one doing well, and one bolted and turned yellow.) Of the 4-5 new seedlings, all are growing rapidly, one is kinda yellowed and the rest still have their initial slim leaves, no the wide spinach leaves.

[peregrinejohn]

Oh, and the oregano problem reminded me of this little gem. Infinite Oregano!