Success and Failures

While I have had good success growing my indoor herb garden, I have also had some failures too.

My two biggest failures were killing my first triple curled parsley plant by overwatering and my first thyme plant by using soil that did not drain well enough. Plus I root burned the thyme by fertilizing without buffering the roots first.

 


Curled parsley overwatered – leaves turning yellow


Dying Parsley Plant

Perhaps I could have saved this plant by letting it dry out. But I should have cut off all the leaves and put them into my dry bag instead of throwing the whole plant out. Ah well, live and learn.

 

 


Thyme plant showing dead and burned roots.
 

This is from overwatering initially and then fertilizing without buffering the roots combined with an improper draining soil mix.

 

The white fuzzy growth on the woody stem is the beginning of powdery mildew. Eventually this spread to the leaves. Even with isolation and increased air circulation, the plant eventually succumbed and had to be thrown out. Per Suzy at Tagawa Gardens Sage is difficult to grow indoors. It needs constant air circulation to avoid formation of mildew. At another nursery, I found several sage plants with mildew already on them. Even the professionals have their issues with this pest.