You’ve either got a very wide roller or that’s a very narrow lawn
How do you stop basil going to seed?
I grow every year in pots and plant out in the greenhouses and eventually the stalks get browned off and mildew slowly becomes apparent.
Thyme in the wild grows best on anthills where it is constantly being buried so I dig it up every year or so and replant it deeper or you can just add more fine soil on top.
Herbs.
How do you stop basil going to seed?
If you mean early then the plant in bolting due to lack of water. I water Basil from the bottom and it can get very thirsty in this warm weather.
How do you stop thyme turning woody and ugly after a couple of years?
Once established cut it back hard but leave a little untouched. It'll then grow new young shoots.
I've grow mint in large containers now, in a bit which noboddy looks at with the washing line and shed, it's too invasive and ugly for he ground.
I plant mint(s) in a bottomless plastic pot into the garden and hide the pot with mulch. The runners will grow over the mulch and you can chop them off. After a while when the mint ages pull up the pot and replenish with new mint and soil.
I've given up on chives in my soil. Aliums live for about two years and then like old soldiers, they fade away.
I found a wonderful sage recently, very highly recommended -- Salvia officinalis 'Berggarten"
Thyme - you plant it in my back garden where it dies come the winter.Herbs.
How do you stop basil going to seed?
How do you stop thyme turning woody and ugly after a couple of years?
I've grow mint in large containers now, in a bit which noboddy looks at with the washing line and shed, it's too invasive and ugly for he ground.
I've given up on chives in my soil. Aliums live for about two years and then like old soldiers, they fade away.
I found a wonderful sage recently, very highly recommended -- Salvia officinalis 'Berggarten"
FIFYnever looked at some herbs/plants as being ugly, especially if they have a culinary/medicinal/recreational use
Thyme never lasts..
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Once they're in there, you can't get them out. I have learned this the hard, expensive way. Throw the box out, there are plenty of other plants which are less trouble.
None of the touted solutions are effective. You can't kill them with insecticide because they're covered in wax. If you try a systemic insecticide you have to reapply ever couple of weeks, and it's real hard, impossible, to get good coverage on a box plant because the leaves are small and dense. The pheromone traps trap some, but not all -- and all it takes is for one or two to get through and you have been wasting your time, because they lay so many eggs. You won't manage to squash every caterpillar.
As Tsung Tzu said (more or less) -- if you can't win, don't fight.