tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post8303934896999285949..comments2024-03-17T19:32:26.043+00:00Comments on Daughter of the Soil: The herb garden resurrectedRebsie Fairholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811733792196954188noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-34947881379108479342017-05-17T00:52:53.260+01:002017-05-17T00:52:53.260+01:00How is your herb garden?How is your herb garden?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-17779843917302168052012-07-18T17:38:40.984+01:002012-07-18T17:38:40.984+01:00I love this! So glad I stumbled onto your blog. I ...I love this! So glad I stumbled onto your blog. I live in Baja Mexico. Just 40 minutes under California US. I have tried to grow herbs. I have some still, but never thought about grouping them together in a little bed. I think I will try this.Thanks!LOL IN MEXICOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00200975256759849868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-59616480327381513232010-04-27T23:48:43.025+01:002010-04-27T23:48:43.025+01:00Love herbs and love bricks. I've collected abo...Love herbs and love bricks. I've collected about 100 from skips recently (even asking permission). Bemused homeowners usually think I'm asking to put things in the skip not take them out. If you use a double thickness you can make a low raised bed without using mortar as Mojo at http://vrtlarica.blogspot.com/ has shown. I planned to copy this but I keep on finding other uses for them, notably weighing down fleece and thrip netting against the ferocious Hibernian wind and carrot midgies. I need another neigbour to go open plan before I can realise my dream. Another problem you have anticipated is the quality of the bricks is poor. Notably the local "Hailes" brickworks shut down because the quality of brick was not particularly good. I can vouch for this as several of the ones in the open at my plot have gone pfff over the winter. I feel sure that once interlocked the problem would be significantly reduced.<br /><br />(Also would mention that I'm not repeating the Shetland Black experience this year as the yield was so low, the size was small, they seemed to be prone to disease and the pests went to town on them. They did make a lovely sludgey grey mound on the plate. But joking apart I do love diversity and keeping a tradition alive (and I still love your write up on them). <br /><br />Mal, a new follower.Mal's Allotmenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12349857165496487250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-75847252077415066152010-04-23T16:26:29.677+01:002010-04-23T16:26:29.677+01:00The raised herb bed is wonderful and makes my five...The raised herb bed is wonderful and makes my five pots on the kitchen windowsill somewhat pathetic. It has certainly inspired me to be a little more ambitious.<br /><br /><br />Mary Bailey<br />Wickford, Essex, U.K.<br /><a href="http://marysenglishgarden.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">English Garden</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01285253672606125017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-27145149516211500762010-04-19T14:46:17.678+01:002010-04-19T14:46:17.678+01:00Beautiful brickwork! I just have mine stacked so ...Beautiful brickwork! I just have mine stacked so the water can filter...the problem is that they keep getting knocked over by the squirels!ConsciousGardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12253940238405185012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-37070144526024965372010-04-18T16:30:09.325+01:002010-04-18T16:30:09.325+01:00Hi Rebsie,
Nothing wrong with a bit of arts &...Hi Rebsie,<br /><br />Nothing wrong with a bit of arts & crafts brickwork. It's you that has to look at it after all.<br /><br />I have new plot at last, after nearly 3 years, and "Dig for Victory" lives again!<br />www.digforvictory.blogspot.comGreenmantlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869745942011646851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-81970989595565280252010-04-18T07:43:57.000+01:002010-04-18T07:43:57.000+01:00It's funny sometimes how these things work.
I...It's funny sometimes how these things work.<br /><br />I've both been working on my own patch of herbs for growing on my roof. It doesn't really work to grow these at the allotment, because I have to plan ahead to use fresh herbs and remember to bring them home. I've just been cleaning up a large planter for this.<br /><br />Also, as part of my foundation repair that's been dragging on, I have an original wall in my house I've been thinking about removing. It's also of handmade bricks. I just can't bring myself to remove such an old part of my house, no matter how much I'd like to have a larger room. My contractor told me, if I cleaned the bricks first, I could probably sell them for about 2 euros a piece.Patrickhttp://www.patnsteph.net/weblognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-55041253033969130992010-04-17T22:46:43.272+01:002010-04-17T22:46:43.272+01:00Thank you all.
Ewa, it was a lot of work - it too...Thank you all.<br /><br />Ewa, it was a lot of work - it took me a whole day to do each layer of bricks. But it is a long term investment!<br /><br />I did have some concerns, Robert, about the durability of the bricks, which is another reason I left them outside all winter. They came from an interior wall and I wasn't sure how weatherproof they would be. But I've tried to put the most solid surfaced ones on the top, and I don't mind if they flake a little bit ... just hoping they don't disintegrate.<br /><br />Kath, I'm the same, so this bed is right next to the patio because I improvise all my cooking as well as everything else, and I tend to rush out and pick herbs on a whim while I've got a pan on the stove. I've had a long term fascination with carvings in churches, especially the pagan ones. I photograph green men wherever I find them - shiela-na-gigs are less common but it's all the more of a treat to find one.Rebsie Fairholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17811733792196954188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-72874915082063085462010-04-17T20:00:26.750+01:002010-04-17T20:00:26.750+01:00Well done on a very individual raised bed. I'...Well done on a very individual raised bed. I'd be lost without my herb garden, small though it is. It's right outside the back door because I'm such a lazy beggar I'd find excuses not to use the herbs if I had to traipse down the garden in the rain for them!<br /><br />I love your carving. There are some fantastic symbols in old churches - often pagan or even rather rude. Jack in the green and the sheila-na-gig for example.Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12841961223771293021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-8985290137234343492010-04-17T19:06:13.777+01:002010-04-17T19:06:13.777+01:00My allotment site once had a lot of brick summerho...My allotment site once had a lot of brick summerhouses on it. Almost all were knocked down by the Council in the 1970's, leaving only a couple of survivors. Many of the bricks ended up in the stream, and I've been salvaging them over the years to build a path. I'm currently halfway down the plot, and I've got enough bricks to finish it. The one thing to watch out for is that some of them weren't fired hot enough to be water proof (I think it was the temperature anyway), and if they get damp they come to pieces when there's a frost.Robert Brenchleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-67594327660743621872010-04-17T18:13:47.103+01:002010-04-17T18:13:47.103+01:00Love the raised bed! I think you did a very good ...Love the raised bed! I think you did a very good job. But I know nothing about laying bricks.<br />Nice touch with the old fingerprint. Your own little bit of history.Karahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01681021126113385783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-9816119521952192232010-04-17T14:08:09.054+01:002010-04-17T14:08:09.054+01:00wonderful raised bed with bricks. I love it. Actua...wonderful raised bed with bricks. I love it. Actually that made me reconsidering the final material for my coming up this mont new vegetable beds. I planned to make them using wood, but it will last maximum 5 years - bricks are more solid.<br />.<br />or am I looking for excuses to not do it?<br />.<br />Greetings,Ewahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02460827662984311538noreply@blogger.com