Also mint! A bird pooped mint in our backyard (or maybe a squirrel dropped it, idk) but we didn’t notice until it was too late. The entire side yard is solid mint and it won’t leave. I have potted some to give to people though, so bonus.
You have to only use the young leaves on nasturtium and put them in a mixed salad to give a pop of flavour. You can also eat the flowers, flower buds and seeds (quite hot). I pickle the seeds in spiced white wine vinegar and keep them in the fridge over winter. Pickling them makes them milder and the best use is in sauces and salads. They're great for ground cover, attracting pollinators and I also think banishing some pests – slugs tend to move off to greener pastures. Pick up as many of the seeds you find in the autumn otherwise they will take over.
You unfortunately may never live down that pronunciation BUT I love the quote that you should never make fun of someone for mispronunciation because it’s likely because they learned it by reading. Sometimes words just don’t sound how they are spelled or follow the rules of one persons language. There’s a city in northern Ontario that is called Kapuskasing. I put the emphasis on the wrong syllables and my family still make fun of me as I struggled to remember how to say it correctly.
I absolutely love all 3, but alyssum is such an under-utilized filler/spiller imo. So glad you included it. I always see it as an accessory plant, but let it be the star of the show! 🤩 Great option for colorful ground cover and borders, smells glorious, and has been so heat and drought tolerant for me. One ¢.25 seed packets from the dollar store goes such a long way.
Weirdly enough, I was told that alyssum keeps many bad bugs away, so I planted some at the fringes of my garden not expecting it to actually work, but they actually kept 90% of the aphids, earwigs and grasshoppers away from my lettuce. I didn’t even need to use safers soap on them last year. I’m totally planting them again
Alyssum smells so refreshing. Curious to see you try another grow your own food for a month methods. High yield and the right daily nutrient needs are a challenge. I'm curious about rain water purification as well. Election year mindset.
I have this problem with calendula and potatoes I need to leave even the smallest potato in the soil and it will pop up again next year. That's why i really needed to stop putting potato peels in my inground composting system. It always turned into a potato bed
And the calendula, well apparently a few birds like their seeds, so i tend to let the heads stand until i can harvest those seeds and then proceed to sterilize them (out of fear that birds will spread them to the entire village and beyond), but before that the birds get a few and next year i find them in the most peculiar places, like a heap of pure yellow sand which my dad put behind thr garage for filling up thr drive way when necessary
I am lucky my mint did not spread in my bed, cause i didnt know when i planted it. Got it out early enough and its lived in a grow bag since. Starting to come up not.
My neighbor has lemon balm growing in the cracks of her patio cause it seeded. Like, she has to trim it back, it gets as tall as my hip.
My mom hasn't planted dill in over a decade and the garden is still full with it. It's literally EVERYWHERE. But it's a good thing, because we love it. 😊
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Also mint! A bird pooped mint in our backyard (or maybe a squirrel dropped it, idk) but we didn’t notice until it was too late. The entire side yard is solid mint and it won’t leave.
I have potted some to give to people though, so bonus.
Dill is another that never goes away. Spreads like crazy…
Would these grow well in the desert? I live in Vegas
Cha ma ma lay!!! STOP! Why didn’t I think of that. From now on it shall be. Now pronounce “Stevia”
You have to only use the young leaves on nasturtium and put them in a mixed salad to give a pop of flavour. You can also eat the flowers, flower buds and seeds (quite hot). I pickle the seeds in spiced white wine vinegar and keep them in the fridge over winter. Pickling them makes them milder and the best use is in sauces and salads. They're great for ground cover, attracting pollinators and I also think banishing some pests – slugs tend to move off to greener pastures. Pick up as many of the seeds you find in the autumn otherwise they will take over.
Is cha-momma-lay similar to coe-til-a-don?
I would highly reccomend that you do NOT plant alyssum, as it is an invasive species
You unfortunately may never live down that pronunciation BUT I love the quote that you should never make fun of someone for mispronunciation because it’s likely because they learned it by reading. Sometimes words just don’t sound how they are spelled or follow the rules of one persons language. There’s a city in northern Ontario that is called Kapuskasing. I put the emphasis on the wrong syllables and my family still make fun of me as I struggled to remember how to say it correctly.
I wouldn't mind have a life supply of chamomile🍵
Chamomile smells like green apple to you? To me it smells like honey. ❤
🤨crops? I’ve never heard of these as “crops”. Herbs possibly 🤣🤣🤣
I absolutely love all 3, but alyssum is such an under-utilized filler/spiller imo. So glad you included it. I always see it as an accessory plant, but let it be the star of the show! 🤩 Great option for colorful ground cover and borders, smells glorious, and has been so heat and drought tolerant for me. One ¢.25 seed packets from the dollar store goes such a long way.
Climate for sure. I have to replant all of these every year. But then I’ve never tried that fancy pants version of chamomile. 😂
We all watch it 3 or 4 times to see if we are crazy or its new to us
You had me at Chah MoMo Lay
Mispronounce & have the community build the comment section. 😊
Gasoline??? Nastortium leaves and flowers are delicious. They taste sort of like Horseradish.
Camo-meel lol shimomale
to me nasturtium tastes peppery
Allyssum is deadly to cats I believe. This guy has no cats or dogs so pet owners need to do more research
I would love any of these to grow like crazy, but none can survive the summer here.
Weirdly enough, I was told that alyssum keeps many bad bugs away, so I planted some at the fringes of my garden not expecting it to actually work, but they actually kept 90% of the aphids, earwigs and grasshoppers away from my lettuce. I didn’t even need to use safers soap on them last year. I’m totally planting them again
Wait, what did you call chamomile? 😂😂
Alyssum smells so refreshing. Curious to see you try another grow your own food for a month methods. High yield and the right daily nutrient needs are a challenge. I'm curious about rain water purification as well. Election year mindset.
We will
We've been dealing with nightshade since we moved in… 8 years ago.
CAM-oh-mile!
😂I think he pronouncing it the Pilipino/tagalog way 😂
I have this problem with calendula and potatoes
I need to leave even the smallest potato in the soil and it will pop up again next year. That's why i really needed to stop putting potato peels in my inground composting system. It always turned into a potato bed
And the calendula, well apparently a few birds like their seeds, so i tend to let the heads stand until i can harvest those seeds and then proceed to sterilize them (out of fear that birds will spread them to the entire village and beyond), but before that the birds get a few and next year i find them in the most peculiar places, like a heap of pure yellow sand which my dad put behind thr garage for filling up thr drive way when necessary
Cracking up at chamomile. Reminds me of Nigella's microwave. On alyssum: I didn't even plant it and it still turned up!!! 😂
The nasturtium leaves are a natural antibiotic especially if you have a runny tummy – put it on a sandwich with some mayo 🥪
My chamomile always just dies 🥲
I am lucky my mint did not spread in my bed, cause i didnt know when i planted it. Got it out early enough and its lived in a grow bag since. Starting to come up not.
My neighbor has lemon balm growing in the cracks of her patio cause it seeded. Like, she has to trim it back, it gets as tall as my hip.
Fun fact: If you pickle the nasturtium seed pods they taste very similar to kippers!
None of these self seed or stay perinial for me. I'm in 9b-so it's bot like it gets frozen out.
OMG did you just call chamomile "chimomilay?" 😂
I am really puzzled at his pronunciation of "chamomile." Isn't he an expert on plants???
Cha what?
Ooh that pronunciation was way off
My mom hasn't planted dill in over a decade and the garden is still full with it. It's literally EVERYWHERE. But it's a good thing, because we love it. 😊
I have camomile and nasturtium
only plant plants native to where you live. it supports pollinators, which is what your crops and humanity & nature in general really need
Lol😂.
What the actual f did you call that tea? 🤣🤣🤣 it's giving meecrowavé energy 🤣🤣🤣
I grow wild chamomile, it smells like pineapple 🍍😋
U can eat nasturtium flowers too.looks great in salads 👍
cat safe?
✅🐈⬛🐈 catmint, shiso, mint