![]() ![]() ![]() Valerian: Valerian has beautiful, delicate white flowers on tall stems. That is why I always plant mint in a container. They can be hard to remove as small bits of roots left behind can grow into full plants. Mint, oregano, pennyroyal and even thyme will spread through underground runners and can quickly take over the garden. I must mention that most members of the mint family will become quite invasive if left to their own devices. Spearmint, chocolate mint, peppermint etc. Mint: Pretty much anything in the mint family. Learn the benefits of eating parsley every day! The following year you will have parsley growing everywhere the seed dropped! The parsley flower stalk grows to about 4 feet tall, so the seeds are easily blown loose by the wind and dropped all over the garden. Parsley: Parsley has the same MO as dill except parsley is a biennial, so it only flowers every 2 years. It produces seeds much like catnip does and they also like to plant themselves wherever they land.though unlike catnip, they're not a fan of patio cracks! Luckily lemon balm is very useful medicinally. Lemon Balm: Once established in the garden, the clump of lemon balm will get larger and larger every year. The stems get quite tall and when the flowers go to seed they tend to blow all over the garden. While this might not seem like much, let this happen a few years and they've spread several feet across the garden bed! I suggest cutting the flowers off and making chive blossom butter.ĭill: Dill is the first herb I planted exactly once, this one was 7 years ago. You'll have a ring of single chives pop up all around the original plant. When the flower heads become completely dry, the seeds drop off and will plant themselves. If they are not plucked, they will dry up and droop over. I had it on my patio and I allowed it to go to seed, because I thought the seeds had nowhere to grow.Ĭhives: Chive seeds are contained in the chive blossoms. That would keep it from spreading in the garden. Shortly after Valerian started popping up in and out of my garden, as far away as my driveways edge! Since then there's been several invasive herbs including catnip, chamomile, chives and.well, here's the whole list!Ĭatnip: Catnip seeds will fall off the plant and plant themselves absolutely anywhere! Even in the smallest of areas! Last year I thought it was brilliant to keep my catnip in a pot. Dill has popped up in my garden every year since.Ī Calendula infestation followed closely behind the dill problem.though you can really never have enough calendula so that's not so bad. Since the pickling cucumbers were a bust, I let the dill go to seed. It was also my first year with chickens and I had sadly underestimated their drive to get into my garden and take 2 bites out of everything they could find. It was my first year with an unlimited sized garden and I was going to grow my own dill and learn to make pickles. ![]()
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