05-10-2007, 12:57 PM
We were hoping other folks had already done the learning curve on herbs in Hawaii, but I guess we will just plant seeds and see what happens.
Even if they don't grow for us, though, that may not mean the specific herbs we plant wouldn't grow in Hawaii. Neither my neighbor nor I have had much luck growing lavender yet just fifteen miles further up the coast, there's hedges of lavender growing everywhere. We can grow rosemary into hedges which seems very similar to lavendar, but there is enough difference between the two plants that one will grow and the other one won't.
We will have to make our list of seeds to order by the different herbs we want instead of by what grows well in our area. Sometimes a different variety of the same type of plant will grow, too, so perhaps if we find some that don't quite work out, we could try a different variety. Oh well, we haven't even ordered seeds yet since we are still at the trying to figure out what might grow well stage.
Even if they don't grow for us, though, that may not mean the specific herbs we plant wouldn't grow in Hawaii. Neither my neighbor nor I have had much luck growing lavender yet just fifteen miles further up the coast, there's hedges of lavender growing everywhere. We can grow rosemary into hedges which seems very similar to lavendar, but there is enough difference between the two plants that one will grow and the other one won't.
We will have to make our list of seeds to order by the different herbs we want instead of by what grows well in our area. Sometimes a different variety of the same type of plant will grow, too, so perhaps if we find some that don't quite work out, we could try a different variety. Oh well, we haven't even ordered seeds yet since we are still at the trying to figure out what might grow well stage.
Kurt Wilson