Posted on 02/05/2022 6:01:07 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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You keep on keepin’ on Diana. Here’s a link to your Greeneyes memorial thread, I am hoping someday her family will find it. Many wonderful tributes there. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4035070/posts
I have a question: Has anyone here succeeded in growing rosemary from seed? I have one little plant - it’s tiny - that’s about a year old. It seemed to be dying a couple of months ago (because of overwatering) but it’s still going; it has some little leaves coming out and stuff. I know they’re like that but I’m hoping it’s still alive. I started with about 6-7 from seed. There were two up until a short time ago; one finally showed that it was really dead. (It’s always so hard to tell.) I have had limited success (meaning the plant lasted for more than 3 years) with root stock but that’s not really success since I’ve seen these plants with trunks like 3” in diameter.
I have lived in Texas most of the time since 1973. Only witnessed 3 snowfalls so far. So there are winters here with no snow. LOL
Any of the ‘woody’ herbs are hard to start from seed. Professional greenhouses and nurseries propagate those plants from cuttings.
It CAN be done, but you need the patience of a Saint! Please remember; Burpee IS trying to sell you seed, so they will make it sound easy. It is not.
https://www.burpee.com/blog/how-to-grow-rosemary-from-seed_article10491.html
As for the plants you have already, I am having great success this year with Rosemary I’ve brought indoors because I finally figured out that they need to be sitting in a tray of water for humidity, and they need weekly misting as well as weekly watering. And a south-facing window or supplemental light from a grow light.
This is the first time in my long ‘career’ of trying to over-winter Rosemary (In Zone 4/5) that I’ve had any success.
And I are a Paid Perfeshinal! :)
One of my BFFs moved from Wisconsin to Wimberly, TX five years ago after she retired so she could be near her Grandbabies.
It has snowed on her every year since. She was also caught in that horrible freeze/power outage TX had last year. She survived. Wisconsin Girls Can Survive...just about anything but a Green Bay Packers loss, LOL!
Counting down the days to starting my onion seeds……
Garlic... Easy or not easy to grow? Italian wife wants it in this year’s garden. In 6a/6b zone..
Thanks...
I have but it is difficult and yes, they do not like overwatering.
You can take cuttings and dip them in rooting hormone.
I have had better luck that way.
I kept my plants in the sun, a very cool room, and barely water it and it’s doing just fine.
Diana has given a great answer. I just would add that if you are in a northern climate, it would add to a challenge. I am in west Michigan. Many things are tough to grow from seed early enough for outside gardening. Even with heating pads and lights. Some things I just buy plants every year.
Garlic is ridiculously easy to grow.
I do hardneck here in NH, which is zone 5.
Plant it in the fall, mulch it well, and let it go.
Virtually nothing bothers it and it is supposed to be a good companion plant for some crops. Harvest in around Aug, cure, and then save the biggest and best bulbs for planting next year’s crop.
The ONLY issue I ever had was when some critter plowed its way through the garlic bed and bent a bunch of them over. Once the stems are broken/bent over like that, the plants won’t do anything.
My garlic grows big when planted in the fall.
Not hard to grow,even in containers.
Easy plant in the fall for where you are at zone 6. Plant deep almost like for tulips, cover with mulch. Harvest in late summer. I have great success with cypress mulch. I am in zone 6 too.
Central Missouri received about half of the oh-my-god-we’re-all-gonna-die snowmageddon that was predicted by the weather guessers last week.
Roads were mostly cleared by the end of the day yesterday. Pops took the little Massey out on Thursday and bladed all of the neighbors’ driveways. Saved me from needing to warm tired old Nanner up enough to get him started.
Nothing going on in the garden. I’ve got a greenhouse design bouncing around in my noodle. I need to put it on paper and make a materials list. I’d really like to have that project done by the end of the month. If I manage to collect all of the materials to do it by the end of the month I will call that a victory. lol
Super easy. In zone 6 (I'm in 6a) you'll want to get it in the ground before Thanksgiving for a July crop. You can put it out in the spring and still get a crop, it just won't be a bumper crop.
Recommend that after harvest you save back cloves for replanting in the fall. Garlic acclimates to the soil where it grows. Harvests will improve to a degree for several years when you start a new patch, then once the full potential for your site is realized it will level off in subsequent years.
We are having such warm weather here in SoCal (in the 80s this coming week) - which is good and bad. While it is beautiful to sit out on the patio, we desperately need rain.
My roses are starting to bud and bloom and so are my fruit trees - which shouldn't happen for at least another month. If we get a cold spell, the blooms will be off the fruit trees meaning no fruit.
Apple blossoms:
And rose: French Lace:
Christmas amaryllis, blooming a bit late:
And Sticky Monkey Flower, which is also blooming early:
I am praying for rain.
Good Morning!
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