Herbs are a good choice. Fresh herbs are great to have for cooking and tend to be the best value for money as plants go.
Planted is the correct term - sowing is for seeds, planting for plants. If you get really into gardening you might also get to use “pricking out” which is moving very tiny sprouted seedlings into pots.
Looks good! They’ll settle their roots in and grow happily.
If you find the parsley doesn’t perk up, that’s normal, just keep picking leaves from the outside and new ones will grow upright from the centre.
It should be fine. Only mention it because I once had to do that with a supermarket rescue parsley. When I took the supporting cellophane off the pot the whole thing looked like it had fainted and drooped outward.
One thing to bear in mind, planters lose water faster than in the ground. You want to be careful on high sunlight days, as water can magnify sun rays (so leaves with water droplets on them will scald), so try and get the ground around them. Mulch is your friend, will stop evaporation from the top layers.
If it’s a REALLY hot day, no matter how much water you give them they may look wilty - this is normal. Plants will pull water out of their leaves in high heat so they don’t boil. Check how they look when the sun goes down, you should see them starting to plump back up as the plant sees the boiling danger has passed.
no worries, had to talk His Lordship out of a tree more than once when that’s happened! particularly leafy greens are a bugger for it, they have hundreds of fine capillaries all through the leaf that carry water. Generally check on them when the suns at the level it is now - plenty of light left, no heat, no blaze. If still wilty then, water. And don’t be afraid to stick a finger in the soil! up to about the middle knuckle - the top end of your finger should have lovely damp soil sticking to it, if not, water deeply
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Herbs are a good choice. Fresh herbs are great to have for cooking and tend to be the best value for money as plants go.
Planted is the correct term - sowing is for seeds, planting for plants. If you get really into gardening you might also get to use “pricking out” which is moving very tiny sprouted seedlings into pots.
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Looks good! They’ll settle their roots in and grow happily.
If you find the parsley doesn’t perk up, that’s normal, just keep picking leaves from the outside and new ones will grow upright from the centre.
It should be fine. Only mention it because I once had to do that with a supermarket rescue parsley. When I took the supporting cellophane off the pot the whole thing looked like it had fainted and drooped outward.
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Yeah they can have a bit of transplant shock if their roots are disturbed or damaged. Hopefully with watering they settle in okay. 🤞
Looks good to me :)
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Looking good!
One thing to bear in mind, planters lose water faster than in the ground. You want to be careful on high sunlight days, as water can magnify sun rays (so leaves with water droplets on them will scald), so try and get the ground around them. Mulch is your friend, will stop evaporation from the top layers.
If it’s a REALLY hot day, no matter how much water you give them they may look wilty - this is normal. Plants will pull water out of their leaves in high heat so they don’t boil. Check how they look when the sun goes down, you should see them starting to plump back up as the plant sees the boiling danger has passed.
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no worries, had to talk His Lordship out of a tree more than once when that’s happened! particularly leafy greens are a bugger for it, they have hundreds of fine capillaries all through the leaf that carry water. Generally check on them when the suns at the level it is now - plenty of light left, no heat, no blaze. If still wilty then, water. And don’t be afraid to stick a finger in the soil! up to about the middle knuckle - the top end of your finger should have lovely damp soil sticking to it, if not, water deeply