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Growing Herbs & Vegetables in containers--for Fall and Winter!
Luray Garden Club Paula P. Brownlee
Northern Shenandoah Valley Master Gardeners 8/8/17
2. Choosing Your Containers
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3. Where Do I Put My Containers?
• Sun
• Untreated water source nearby
• Outdoors: near the kitchen
• Indoors: South- or East-facing large window.
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4. Buying Small Plants.
• Herb and vegetable plants hard to find now.
• If you do, check root systems!.
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5. Your Own Plants: Slanting seeds.
• Soil or soil-less mix
• Watering essential!
• Seed-starting in tiny containers; no fertilizer
• Once germinated, weak fertilizer
• Once 2 sets “real” leaves: transplant
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6. A Few Tips for Planting Seeds Indoors
• Use germination planting mix • Sow thinly (easier for transplanting!) • Check light needs, days to maturity on packet or
Internet • Try e.g. basils, dwarf dill, parsley, lettuce.
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7. Divisions of Perennial Herbs
Divide healthy perennials by
jabbing a sharp tool right through
the root mass.
Trim foliage by 2/3rds and pot in
potting soil.
Keep well-watered.
Leave rest of plant in garden.
Try e.g.: chives, mints, oregano, thymes, winter savory.
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8. Rooting a Cutting (e.g. sage)
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Dip base in hormone powder Place in soilless mix containing perlite
Take ~4” shoot tip Strip leaves from base Cut base of stem
Make holes in mix to receive cuttings Water in well Keep warm, moist, and in indirect light Should root well in ~8 weeks
Try: basils, mint, rosemary, sages, thymes.
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9. What Herbs do YOU Like?
• Most people like:
– basil (annual)
– dill (dwarf only!) (annual)
– mint (invasive!) (perennial)
– chives (perennial)
– parsley (biennial)
– thyme (perennial)
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10. Some Herbs to Consider
Purple basil Dill in flower Mint
Parsley Lemon thyme 8/8/17
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11. Some Vegetables to Try
• Fall-winter: e.g. of good possibilities:
–Bok Choi, lettuce, radishes,
– spinach, beets (for greens), green onions
• Note:
–Many vegetables are too large for pots
• Many vegetables need outdoor sun
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12. Using Herbs all Year
• What lasts fresh through the winter?
– Outside: oregano, Arp rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme, winter savory
– Under heavy cover: mint, parsley, some leafy greens?
• Grown indoors:
– Basils, chives, dwarf dill, parsley
• Herbs for drying: basils, mint
• Herb vinegars: purple basils, garlic chives, garlic flowers, tarragon
• Pesto (oil based); basils, parsley.
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My Meyer Lemon Tree
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Do try some of these, inside or out.
These plants taste so good in the Winter--because you
are growing them yourself!
Thank you very much!
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