Today I had to enforce some tough love in my garden....
I had 4-5 foot high stalks of borage, covered with flowers. I left them as long as possible, since the bees were having a heyday with them. Today, I pulled them out. The Borage is a bit of a bully, spreading and seeding as it pleases :). Between it, and Ms. Lemonbalm, well they were crowding my whole herb bed. Not to mention that have spread their little children way outside of the box, they are homesteading all over the backyard.
Normally, I let this wild rumpus go, I enjoy it.
In this case, I had to be a leader and pull out the Borage, and a bunch of Lemonbalm so my Echinacea could finally get some breathing room and grow!
As I was pulling, I discovered many new little Borage & Lemonbalm babies....they multiply like rabbits.
The Borage was too far gone to use, but I just hung the second harvest of Lemonbalm to dry, as well as more Oregano. Just in time to take down the first round and store. I love how my kitchen smells when I hang them in there to dry.
Like a summer in Italia.
i had to leave mine up. its just so pretty. but everything else suffered as a result. good on you for saving the rest of your 'buds.' ;)
ReplyDeleteLatisha, I felt the same way! I did not want to cut them, the flowers are so pretty and yummy...plus, it was filled with bees gathering. Yesterday, I saw my poor little Echinacea...it looked like it was gasping for air, LOL!
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