Answers To Your Questions About Container Herb Gardening
Thomas asks…
I have been making homemade Salsa with herbs and tomatoes, green peppers, and hot peppers from the garden.?
Can anyone tell me from experience if you can freeze fresh Salsa…I Do Not want to heat can anything. You must answer from experience since freezing doesn’t always work unless produce is blanched. I just need to know your results if you have frozen it after making the salsa. Example, was it watery ? The Food Network has recipes but I would like your personal opinions please. Also , I can’t use my Deni food sealer so what is the best storage container to use for freezing if you recommend it.
Green Thumb answers:
I’ve never had luck freezing fresh salsa because the tomatoes get all squishy and watery, and the texture gets gross. I’m dying to find a way to preserve fresh salsa, though. It’s so much better than the cooked stuff.
David asks…
Baby Snapping Turtles?
A few months ago a snapping turtle layed eggs in my family’s herb garden. Yesterday, 11 baby snappers hatched. We live on a hill with a running brook in out back yard. (They babies would have fried on out on our patio and there is no way on this earth they could possibly make it to the water) so we got out a container, filled it with peat moss, water from the brook, a rock or two and some chopped lettuce. We decided we are going to keep them for about a month so they’ll get a little bigger and we can release them in a swamp where they belong. The reason we’re keeping them is to increase their chance of surviving. But, do you know of anything that can be done to make them more comfortable and to keep them alive?
Green Thumb answers:
You are doing the right thing.good luck with it.i found a site for you,i hope you find it hopeful with keeping the turtles healthy!
Http://www.kyherpsoc.org/snappingturtlecare.htm
have a nice day!
Paul asks…
My Herb Container garden got attacked by Japanese Beatles I vacuumed them off with a shopvac but read that?
they lay there grubs in the soil. Which would be my containers!!! What do I do now? These are all perennial herbs that I overwinter in the garage and bring out again in spring I don’t want grubs killing off all the root system after all the hard work I did! How can I fix my problem in a container environment?
I know there hard to miss when there big but while trying to research about it they get big by eating my roots! I need to get them out asap as I think my plants are already suffering 
I had literally hundreds of these stupid bugs all over my 20 plants and when I was vacuuming them off I saw a ton of them burrowing into the soil of my pots and had to vacuum them out as well. They eat mate burrow lay eggs and do it over again and again like every 20 minutes. Stupid bugs make me not want to ever have a garden again
Green Thumb answers:
Milky Spore… Safe for you, deadly to the grubs…..
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_spore
http://www.lowes.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&cId=SEARCH&productId=3083721&cm_mmc=SCE_gps-_-gps-_-gps-_-St.%20Gabriel%20Organics%2010%20Oz.%20Milky%20Spore%20Grub%20Control%2080010-9
get it , use in your containers, then also out in the yard where they sit during the growing season, then also treat your yard with it….. Yes, it’s a little costly, but the stuff lasts in the soil for years!!!….
The beetles eat your plants, mate while there, then drop to the soil to lay eggs…. Which become the grubs… The Spore will get them at any and all stages of their grubby life….
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