Wally, I'm not sure why Byron discards his first cup of tea, but I just steep a bag in a large mug until it's cool and fairly strong. Then I keep it in a jar in the fridge and add a little of it(1/4 cup?)to a large spray bottle of water and use that to water my seedlings. The only damp off I've had is when I switched to a watering can and splooshed way too much water into a few cells and I hadn't added the tea. So I'm guessing...1/4 cup of tea to a quart of water? I have just been winging it, but it seems to have worked. I hope you get more feedback on this.

Laura, Your chamomile is really pretty. I always thought it grew closer to the ground. I don't want to walk on any ground cover, because it will be in between rocks. But I don't want it to get too tall or it would just look like an over grown rock bed with weeds. Or why go to all the trouble of buying rocks only to have them covered up. Karen, About 3 years ago I put in a six pack of Mother of Thyme. It really took off in that spot. It smells great if you do have to walk on it. And it is a bug/ bee magnat. Then last year, it looked all woody and half killed off. This could have been due to our ice storm, or maybe thyme needs cleaned up and trimmed up to look its best. If you don't want alot of bugs & bees, I would keep it trimmed down. The flowers last forever! It does reseed happily and I moved some around to other parts of my garden. Mo Girl, I don't think you will have a problem transplanting your thyme. I takes some pretty good abuse. While looking for a white ground cover I came across this. Looks like quite the little gem! Check it out. I also checked to see if I could find seeds over plants. And was able to find seeds too. It may to late to WS these, I don't know. Mary Here is a link that might be useful: Greek Yarrow - Achillea ageratifolia

I emptied a tea bag into my seed starting starting mix one year as an experiment instead of using the tea(as a damping-off preventative)to water my seedlings. I keep the mix in a large lidded tupperware bowl and when I took the lid off after some days, I had chamomile seedlings all over the mix. The tea is made from the flowers, which would contain the seeds, so sprinkling the tea where you want to grow it should work, IMO.

There is another, Roman Chamomile, it is a perennial. There's a link below for more info(just the first one I came to in a search). I grow the German and it reseeds every year...I actually haven't planted it since the first year...it just pops up everywhere LOL! If you cut the flowers off and don't pull up the whole plant, it will keep producing flowers until the end of the season. I just clip them off with scissors and let them dry in a colander. It is certainly worth a try to sow some more seed now. Even if they don't flower before frost, you'll have volunteers in the spring from your first plants if you leave a few flowers on at the end of the season. Here is a link that might be useful: Chamomile