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Post by coppice on Mar 14, 2015 1:39:42 GMT -5
Lowe's is gearing up for spring. They brought in a big display of culinary herbs. One rosemary was amply supplied with low branches (ideal for air layer). I took it home with me. When its a little more like spring outdoors, I'll pin those low set branches down to soil so that they can air layer. I'll divide the clones once they have roots.
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Post by spacecase0 on Mar 14, 2015 15:58:59 GMT -5
just don't put in a part of your garden where you put annual crops, rosemary has taken over one of my garden plots, and no, I was not the one to plant them there.
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Post by mullerslanefarm on Mar 31, 2015 7:53:25 GMT -5
just don't put in a part of your garden where you put annual crops, rosemary has taken over one of my garden plots, I could be so lucky, spacecase0! Every year I bring mine inside for the winter, trying to save it for next spring. It is just too darn dry in the house (we heat with a wood stove) and too darn cold back in the laundry room (very little heat gets back there on non-laundry days)
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Post by meandtk on Mar 31, 2015 13:20:27 GMT -5
Would Rosemary grow well in zone 8b?
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 31, 2015 13:43:19 GMT -5
Yes, but don't over water it. Rosemary likes things on the dry side and can easily be "killed with kindness." If you have a sandy, sunny, well-drained spot that is perfect. Water it only when you are getting it established, then taper off the water. Mississippi has more than enough rainfall to keep it happy thereafter.
Lots of folks down through Central Florida grow it - it takes the heat and humidity just fine. Actually, more than one person has said that if they don't keep it cut back, it will get 5'-6' tall! I've seen pictures on the Florida Gardening forum of a person who had a whole wheelbarrow full of clippings from pruning ONE rosemary plant.
(The one advantage of letting it get big is that then you can cut the big strong stems and use them for BBQ skewers - they flavor your food with rosemary from the inside out as it cooks.)
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Post by spacecase0 on Mar 31, 2015 14:29:35 GMT -5
winter is random where I live, the rosemary I have was just fine in my zone 8b winter a few years ago
I have to water my rosemary if it rains less than about 12 inches for the year. one summer I also got a week of less than 10% humidity, over 105F, and avrage 10MPH wind. that kind of super dry weather that almost took out the corn and cracked my skin in 1/2 hour did not phase the rosemary at all.
it did seem to get a deeper green the next day when I accidentally poured 100 gallons of fish tank water into the one plant, so I know that it could use more water than I give it here
I could cart away a pickup truck load of cuttings from one plant here
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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 31, 2015 19:47:34 GMT -5
My rosemary lived through the worst winter we've had for a long time! Below zero a few times, just above zero even more times, so I am lucky I covered it, and placed a 200w heater under the cover, to turn on when I saw it was going to be really bad. It was not REAL great looking when I uncovered it, but it was flowering, and had a lot of green in it, and now, 3 weeks later, much more green.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 2, 2015 14:28:09 GMT -5
spacecase0, I can definitely see where you would need to give water to rosemary in your zone 8b! The combination of heat, low humidity, and high winds has to be brutal on plants. But zone 8b in the Southeast is pretty humid most of the year, especially in the summer. Rainfall amounts are high - mostly 50" or more per year. Even in areas with sandy soil, rosemary almost never needs extra watering once it gets established. I could see it possibly needing a bit of help if the spring dry season is unusually long and severe, but usually not even then. I'm not surprised that the fish tank water greened up your rosemary. Fish tank water from a properly maintained tank is going to contain nitrates, a small amount of nitrites, and possibly a little ammonia. Those nitrates and nitrites make fish tank water good plant food - lots of people use their fish tank water for their garden. So it may not have been just the moisture that greened up your plant.
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Post by izitmidnight on Apr 7, 2015 0:42:46 GMT -5
I am on the border line of zone 8/7. My risemary bush is huge! It is about 5 yrs old and neglected thru extreme drought, rainy season and temps near zero or a week or more. It does not get pampered. If it can't live on its on, it doesn't survive in my yard. Will try to post a picture of my poor neglected Rosemary plant tomorrow. Just ignore what're else is in the picture.
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Post by paulf on Apr 9, 2015 10:26:39 GMT -5
I love the idea of using rosemary twigs as skewers. Being a carnivore and having access to farm raised beef and pork, rosemary as a pork seasoning is the best there is. Growing rosemary in the summer is easy, but we struggle bringing it indoors during the winter months. We have a dedicated humidifier for herbs we winter over inside and it helps a little. Thinking of building a greenhouse with a heater; maybe then I can keep rosemary all year long.
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Post by lmehaffey on Apr 18, 2015 8:37:10 GMT -5
Rosemary is one of my favorite shrubs. I have several large (3-4 foot) shrubs in front of the entrances to my hives; as the girls fly into the hives, they pass through the rosemary, picking up oils from the plant - they clean the oils off their body hairs and, as they do this, they also remove a lot of the mites which can attach to a bee's body. My mite counts have been so low as to be non-reportable since I have had these shrubs.
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Post by aftermidnight on Apr 18, 2015 9:09:34 GMT -5
What varieties of Rosemary are you guys growing? I finally got smart and planted the variety 'Arp', I'm Z 7b winters are unpredictable, can be mild like this past one, not so much as one flake of snow or....d*mn cold with 2-3 feet of snow and temps. in the basement. Mine has survived a few degrees lower than 0°F. I also have 'Tuscan Blue' but it has to spend the winter in the greenhouse.
Annette
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Post by spacecase0 on Apr 19, 2015 1:21:03 GMT -5
I have no idea what kind I am growing
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