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People here sometimes use Rosemary as a small hedge. This is in daughters yard and I just come over and get what I need.
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Bush of it at my buddies place too. Love it and it grows like a weed!
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Senior, thanks again for straightening my photo.
Just brushing against this herb gets the scent on you.
Just brushing against this herb gets the scent on you.
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You're welcome. Some pics don't matter so much but Rosemary needs her roots into mother earth soil.
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Love Rosmarinus. There's a number of different varieties. The one pictured is the upright type, but there's also a prostrate type.
In California it's everywhere. I had a big plant I took down, and Craigslisted the branches; some Persian ladies in AK paid for shipping, and were nice enough to send some sockeye salmon back. (Apparently it won't grow in Alaska.)
How far north will it grow?
Sometimes, they get afflicted with this die-back, at least here in California. Anyone else have trouble with that?
In California it's everywhere. I had a big plant I took down, and Craigslisted the branches; some Persian ladies in AK paid for shipping, and were nice enough to send some sockeye salmon back. (Apparently it won't grow in Alaska.)
How far north will it grow?
Sometimes, they get afflicted with this die-back, at least here in California. Anyone else have trouble with that?
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Dave, good deal. I eat Alaskan salmon once a week.
not sure about the rosemary. It need moisture as mine didn’t do well with no irrigation. Daughter has sprinklers.
One thing I wish I could grow is cilantro! Usually a recipe only calls for a couple tablespoons so I hate buying it. A gardener friend agreed it’s hard to grow.
not sure about the rosemary. It need moisture as mine didn’t do well with no irrigation. Daughter has sprinklers.
One thing I wish I could grow is cilantro! Usually a recipe only calls for a couple tablespoons so I hate buying it. A gardener friend agreed it’s hard to grow.
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Hmm, interesting. Rosemary does well for me, with only a bit of extra water. While it's not like a cactus, I've found them to be quite drought tolerant. Believe it or not, it's used as a drought-tolerant ground cover here sometimes.
I'm curious to know more about your situation. Do you have sandy or other super fast draining soil?
What exactly happens to the cilantro?
Maybe help figure out a way to grow it. I get it by the bunch and use it for lots of things. It's supposed to be good to get rid of residual arsenic.
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Maybe Start can do a pickle jar soil test. :wink2: Instructions are available.
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I guess.
I just dig a hole, dump in a bucket of water and watch. If it vanishes immediately, fast draining soil. In heavy clay, it might evaporate before it soaks in. And variations in between. :vs_cool:
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Brush up against it; rosemary has a distinctive pungent odor, with little lavender or purple blossoms.
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Sadly, me a descendent of Ohio farmers, me who enjoys her yard more than anyone...I live on a sand ridge. It’s with great effort I grow anything! I have like 95% native plants, drought resistant and still very dry.
Because of the Sand Ridge elevation evidently (I’m told) rain clouds go around me much of the time. I do amend the soil best I can.
Because of the Sand Ridge elevation evidently (I’m told) rain clouds go around me much of the time. I do amend the soil best I can.
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Maybe i should have said soil composition analysis.:smile
igging a hole and dumping works for sewer systems.:vs_laugh:Attachments
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Startingover,
I buy a bunch of cilantro- wash it up, chop it up, and pack it into a zip lock
bag and freeze it...whatever I need I just break it off the edge of the frozen
block and put the bag back in the freezer. I do the same thing with basil...
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That is really a neat idea, thanks.
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Basil we grow year round here. Last yr had trouble an got rid of it. I had white cobwebby stuff under the leaves. Maybe meal bugs. I Cut it back and put inside my porch but must have had bugs in soil. Tried washing leaves with soapy water. No luck. I miss making pesto.
Daughters, on her screened in porch, is great, so I just get hers for my spaghetti sauce.
Daughters, on her screened in porch, is great, so I just get hers for my spaghetti sauce.
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EEK!
I missed this, sorry.
Yep, you've hit the nub of your problem. Rosemary won't grow well in sand.
If you leave it in a pot too long and the humus decays, you're left with sand or perlite, and the plant dies.
We have sand ridges in Lake County, east of Cleveland, and you can see the abrupt change in vegetation very easily. You go from walnut forest to barrenness, almost. I mean, sometimes in just a few feet. In Ohio, you can truck in some clay dirt to mix, along with compost, with the local sand.
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