Thyme

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A spring gardening surprise: green leaves instead of green shoots

So much is terrible in the world right now, but at least I’m not looking at lettuce as a grocery line-item expense on the first day of spring. That’s not because I’ve renounced leafy greens as a sandwich fixing, but because the spinach and some of the arugula that I grew from seed in the fall somehow survived winter.

Alongside them in the raised bed outside the back patio, parsley and, even less likely, cilantro have staged their own late-winter resurrections.

I can’t imagine why even the most fault-tolerant of these plants should have done that. This winter, unlike many in recent years, not only had extended hard freezes but multiple snow days that left that bed buried in snow for days at a stretch. Even building a cold frame should have been inadequate.

Having done nothing to prolong those crops, I should have had to start from scratch about two weeks before today, scattering dirt and seeds and looking forward to seeing the first green shoots emerge from the soil later this month.

(To anybody reading this intimidated by the idea of starting a vegetable garden: It’s hard to screw up arugula in the spring, and it’s also hard to find a recipe that can’t be improved with a little of it.)

Instead, after 20 years of having this questionably-productive hobby, I now need to decide if want to dig up some of these survivors to try growing some lettuce to mix things up. And if this means that my long losing streak of trying to cultivate tomatoes might be due for a change in a couple of months. This unearned gardening luck is not much in the larger scheme of things, but I’ll take it.

Rainy days and Mondays always get me down; but nothing compares to a Rainy Monday after springing forward.
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taking the time
to make the thyme count
tonight's dinner

Meanwhile....

Maybe it's time for *sage*

https://youtu.be/-BakWVXHSug

tea thyme

#tea #cha @tea #gongfucha #puerh #puer #thyme

Fresh #pizzadough topped with #garlic, fresh #thyme, #chili flakes, and plenty of melty #cheese... Add a layer of thinly sliced #peaches and torn #prosciutto just before cooking.

3 Cheese Prosciutto Peach Pizza
https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/prosciutto-peach-pizza/

This is where I string up my #herbs, #onions etc. to dry. #elderflower #thyme #basil #garden #gardening #organicfood #organicproduce

Crumb shot of my multi-seeded sourdough using an Alaskan levain, 9% scalded home milled rye grain, 5% scalded cracked rye grain, 6% scalded home milled pulses, 80% very strong white Canadian flour, mixed herbs plus 65g mixed seeds.
#sourdough #bread #breadposting #flour #milling #canadian #rye #sage #rosemary #oregano #thyme #alaskan

Time for some #bloomscrolling I think! Here’s ten seconds of happy bees to start it off. #thyme #bees

θύμον (thúmon) in Ancient Greek refers to thyme. Same as French "thym," oe Swedish "timjan." Some suggest that it comes from a pre-Greek word that simply refers to the plant. However, others proposed something interesting: what if it derives from θύω (thúō), meaning "to smoke"? Thyme has been burned to release its esences into the air since antiquity. It could be.

https://mapologies.com/herbs/

#Tomatoes into the ground, though we could still add to the second row. Will acquire more this week maybe.

Also K replaced the #thyme that didn't make it through the winter, and the #rosemary that didn't survive in an indoor pot past December. Those dark days are tough for it, but we use it very heavily anticipating it won't last.

I think I've only twice managed to get rosemary to last to be replanted in spring.

blooming creeping orange #thyme. It's buzzing with life.
kriechender #Orangenthymian. Es summt + brummt nur so. #gärtnern #gardening

Creeping thyme starting to flower.
#bloomscrolling #thyme

Restored some much needed thymes in the corner. Bees will love them when they flower! ~