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Example Interpretive Schedules
The following lists of interpretive gardening activities
were prepared for the 1981 summer season. They serve as
useful models for continual garden interpretation at Old
Salem.
I. HERBS: Their culture, harvest, and use
A. Miksch Garden
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Dress herbs weekly; dressing refers to the process
of cleaning dead leaves and stems from the plants
and weeding.
a. Dead head (clean faded flowers):
1) blessed thistles
2) musk and apothecary roses
3) thyme
Irrigate (water) individual herb beds with watering
cans as needed, especially those beds which quickly
drain at the upper end of the garden.
Continue to sow thin plantings of parsley, dill,
carraway, and fennel through the end of June into
the first two weeks in July: sow -- in situ (where
they are to grow)_.
Continue propagation of medicinal and culinary
herbs from either stem cuttings or division of
established plants.
a. Propagate from cuttings:
1) southernwood
2) rosemary
3) lavender
Make successive harvests of culinary and medicinal
herbs through July, August, and September.
a. Harvest and air dry:
thyme leaves during flowering
horehound leaves
lavender flower spikes when in bloom
rosemary leaves anytime
lemon balm leaves
chamomile flowers
basil leaves just prior to flowering
dill leaves and ripe seed heads
sage leaves anytime
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