Starting Again

DispatchesThe Patch
Written By dawnatella
Overhead view of a box filled with potted herb and flower starts including basil, sage, thyme, and pink echinacea coneflowers sitting on a dark grey wooden deck in a Greensboro, NC backyard.

Fixin’ to start an herb patch.

Picked up some plants last week for the Gibsonville herb patch. We dropped them off at my parents’ place on the way to visit James’s family over the weekend. The basil plants are for some late summer fun, and I have a couple of rama tulsi starts that will be joining them. I’ll supplement the woody perennials with seeds in hopes of growing a row of Mediterranean beauty and fragrance, and I’ll add some white swan echinacea alongside this one. Not pictured: the mini-pumpkins that’ll be soaking overnight on Tuesday for Wednesday morning planting.

dawnatella

Dawn Shepherd is a writer, a professor emeritus of writing studies, and an enthusiastic amateur of many things. After stepping away from higher education in 2025 to pursue a cross-country van journey and travels through Spain, she is currently exploring the art of the deliberate return. Through dispatches, sketches, and snapshots, she documents the magic of everyday life. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she’s figuring it all out. Probably. Maybe.

https://thedawnatellaedit.com
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