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The garden that feeds itself started with one season of not cleaning up.<\/p>\n
Let these six plants flower, drop seed, and finish. They come back on their own.
\n– Dill \u2014 one plant scatters thousands of seeds in a six-foot radius, seedlings appear everywhere the following spring.
\n– Cilantro \u2014 stop fighting the bolt, let it drop seed in June, a fall crop emerges in September from the same seeds.
\n– Arugula \u2014 self-seeds so readily that one flowering plant often means volunteer arugula in every bed for years.
\n– Lettuce \u2014 bolt produces hundreds of seeds that land in the same bed and fill the cool-weather gaps between planned plantings.
\n– Chamomile \u2014 one plant produces a carpet of seedlings the following spring, harvestable for tea, zero maintenance.
\n– Borage \u2014 blue flowers, cucumber flavor, drops seeds that germinate reliably in the same spot each year.<\/p>\n
The grocery herbs you keep rebuying evolved to do this without help. You just kept cleaning up before they could finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The garden that feeds itself started with one season of not cleaning up. Let these six plants flower, drop seed, and finish. They come back on their own. – Dill \u2014 one plant scatters thousands of seeds in a six-foot radius, seedlings appear everywhere the following spring. – Cilantro \u2014 stop fighting the bolt, let … <\/p>\n