Herb garden help

[ElizabethB]

I live in south Louisiana and move my cilantro from sun to part shade to shade as the temperature heats up. Even then it does not last beyond late June/early July if I am lucky. Ditto on the over crowding of your pot. I still don't get the cutting the stem business on basil. Just pinch the leave you need. Basil is my favorite herb so I grow several plants. I just pinch the leaves for use and pinch off the flowers to keep it from bolting as long as possible. Since I have a long growing season I keep basil seedlings started to replace the plants that bolt. I have fresh basil until the first freeze.

[MasonSebastian]

Man, I envy you! My thyme plant is a goner sadly Seems like it could not tolerate summer heat.

[rainbowgardener]

@MasonS. I don't know where you are or how hot you are talking about, but I'm not convinced it was heat that did your thyme in:

" In outdoor gardens, it's frequently used in xeriscaping or hot, dry locations where other plants have trouble thriving."
http://houseplants.about.com/od/More_Pl ... ndoors.htm

[pastrycheffowler]

im fairly certain that the cilantro is not gunna be making a comeback. my dill and my parsley are growing like wildfire, but they do have some yellowing leaves and discolored leaves. any insight on what may be causing so many of my plants to yellow would be great.

[pastrycheffowler]

Here are some more pictures of my herbs

[pastrycheffowler]

all of my herbs were florishing and then yesterday i noticed some white stuff on them and flies buzzing around them. what is this? it goesmaway when i water the plants but comes back rather fast.

[rainbowgardener]

The herbs in the pictures look happy and flourishing.

That's not much info re the "white stuff." The flies buzzing around make me wonder if it is whiteflies that flutter away when you water. They can look just like powder or flecks. But the whiteflies, like aphids and a few other things, secrete a sweet sticky substance called honeydew, that attracts the flies.

Tell us more about what the white stuff looks like. Can you rub it off? is it powdery? How much of it is there?

[pastrycheffowler]

yes it seemed like a powdery substance that could be easily wiped away, it rained on the 15th and since then i haven't seen anymore of this white stuff, i did see little flies flying around the leaves after i disturbed them, so i figured it was white flies.