Here is the shaded herb garden 1 month after planting…you can see the pics in the post below to see the progess it has made.  Here we have some basil, cilantro, spinach, spring lettuce mix.  I actually ended up pulling all of the spring mix out because in our wood garden bed a bunch of [...]

I wanted to plant some herbs and greens outside my kitchen for easier access so my wonderful husband built me this. It has been quite warm with temperatures in the 80-90′s and sunny so we had to figure out a way to germinate the seeds since these do better in cooler temperatures so we planted [...]

A few days ago I went outside to find my beautiful, perfect basil was being eaten. Whatever it was did quite a bit of damage in one night.

I checked all the leaves for hornworms (caterpillars), aphids, etc. but found nothing. Every day i checked my basil to find more damage but no signs of [...]