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I'm still waiting on my Pycnanthemum muticum, clustered mountain mint, to germinate. But in more positive news I was allowed to take a cutting of Monarda bradburiana, spotted bee balm, home with me yesterday.
What's growing on with you all?
Edited to add an image of the bee balm:
I have a lot of sage growing hard and fast so I'm going to have to harvest some this weekend to prevent the plants from collapsing.
Now I'm regretting not planting tomatoes, would have made a nice soup with the sage.
Recipe ideas with sage anyone? ๐
In other news: I introduced a beetle into my terrarium that I thought would help eat the little flies that got in there. Turns out my research was wrong and the beetle is a herbivore that's eating the plants in my terrarium... Whoops. I haven't seen it since I put it in there, but I have seen leaves getting slowly chomped up and a lot of tiny poops on the plants and glass.
Fortunately it seems to dislike everything that's not a fern, so I'm expecting everything to work out. Or maybe the beetle will show up and I'll take it out again. At least it's been interesting ๐
I like sage with butternut squash soup, personally. And there's probably still some time for you to get a harvest of those.
I'll give it a try, thanks!