Simon Torsten wrote:In Asian Grocers/International Markets, and in the Mexican Aisle of most North American Grocery stores now.....
For a couple bucks you can buy seeds sols as SPICE and get many more seeds than you can at the local nurdery or hardware store as seed packets.
So I tried it.
Mustard
Coriander(cilantro)
Sweet basil
I'm in zone 6B and the yellow mustard isn't probably the same species as the mustard greens I from California I buy in bundles as produce as groceries.
The leaves are smaller but it grows okay here and the "eat" just like the big ones.
Cilantro is hard to grow here because the weather tends to go from too colod to too hot all of a sudden in mid spring, but I got a decent crop last year.
The Sweet basil sold in Asian Gricers as a spice is used in a fruit drink(based on the packaging) and it's not the same as italian sweet basil.
It's sweeter, more like Holy Basil(Tulsi) smaller leaves.
But here's what makes it fun:
I'm lazy.
I don't like planting little seeds 1/8" deep, or 1/4" deep.
What i do instead is weed my Hugelhulture berms in the late fall, and bang the roots our of big weeds that come up with dirt.
That makes lots of loose soill.
So I just toss these Cheap seeds out like grass seed, let the rain bury them.
Why pay $1.99 for 150 seeds when you can get 10,000 seeds for he same price?
Crap I posted this in the wrong subforum, how do I fix that?
I don’t know if your post is in the wrong sub forum or not, Thank you for posting here.
This fall, I’ll make sure to remember to add some spice seeds, esp cilantro, along with my usual fava bean covercrop to my hugelkultur bed. I never seem to plant enough cilantro.
I harvested loads from my neighbor’s yard this year. They planted cilantro from seeds from the grocery store all along the backyard perimeter. I’d love to see a hugel full of cilantro next winter.
And you know, I think I’m going to try to grow cilantro indoors today. I have a clear container that was sold with strawberries in it (my mom’s, not mine. I buy from the local farm stand).
Thank you all for this forum.