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HORT THERAPY
Dear Readers:
HORT THERAPY is a weekly column where our team of professionals will answer your gardening questions.
Email us your garden questions at AskDIGIT@dig-itmag.com. We love a challenge.
Dear DIG IT!
I bought six Italian flat leaf parsley plants and planted them with my flowers in containers. Now that they are growing, I wonder if they really are parsley. They look likee celery, smell like celery and taste like celery. I think I have celery growing in a clay pot with coleus and in my window boxes with petunias. I don't want to take them out. The petunias have been through enough trauma with all that rain lately. How do I grow them as celery? When do I tie them together to blanche? What should I do?
Mary
Dear Mary
Sometimes seeds get mixed up and these things can happen. You can
harvest the larger celery stalks on a continous basis. If you want to
blanche them, you could place some cardboard around the stalks, but there
really is no big need to do this. You don't have to cut the whole plant at
once, just havest the outside stalks as you like and they will grow back
from the inside.
Hope this helps,
Farmer Rich
Dear DIG IT!
I just received a lavender plant as a gift. Should it be planted in the sun? How big does it get, etc.? I know nothing about a lavender plant.
Thanks,
Geri
Dear Geri,
Lavender likes full sun and a well drained soil. Lavenders can vary in size growing from 1 and 1/2 feet to 4 feet in size depending on the variety. The most commonly used varieties in the garden are Munstead and Hidcote which will grow to be around 1 and 1/2 feet in size.
Jeff Van Pelt
Dear DIG IT!
Due to too much time away from home this winter I have a potted lavendar plant whose soil has dried out completely. Is there any hope for revival or have I lost it completely?
Hope you can help,
Barb in Branchville
Dear Barb,
If the leaves of your plant have turned brown and dropped and the stems seem a bit crispy, there is no hope for your Lavender. My suggestion is to buy a new plant since they don't handle adverse conditions very well.
Jeff Van Pelt
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