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
Good morning!
So Friday was a high of 65 degrees .... early spring ‘work on the garden’ type weather, except it was raining almost all day making everything a muddy slop & around 4:00, a front (with downpours) came through & dropped the temp a quick 25 degrees to 40. Yesterday & today are cold (wind literally howling around the corner of the house yesterday) - too cold to want to go outside and do much of anything. Milder weather is coming this next week, so that will be ‘go outside’ weather.
So what to do while inside? No TV ... don’t watch any more. I’m majorly into listening to podcasts while I do crafts, strip petals/seeds off of last summer’s zinnia blooms, organize things, etc.
Yesterday, I found a podcast that I am very much enjoying - it won’t be for everybody:
Tooth & Claw: True stories of animal attacks
Hosts: Wes Larson, wildlife biologist (known for a lot of ‘bear work’), Jeff Larson (Wes’s brother & sometime helper) & friend Mike.
The goal is not to demonize animals, reptiles, spiders, sharks, etc. but to go through situations & look at the behaviors during attacks. LOTS of good, scientific info from Wes - he tries to be scrupulously accurate on his info. Jeff/Mike are just ‘nuts’ a lot of the time. What you end up with is very informative, serious due to the nature of what happens to people, entertaining/funny due to the conversations between Wes, Jeff & Mike. I’m bingeing the episodes and really enjoying this podcast.
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So Wes was asked what podcasts about nature he would recommend. He had two, but the one I found most interesting was:
Ologies with Alie Ward
I haven’t listened to any episodes yet, but here are examples of the titles that are interesting me the most at first glance:
Myrmecology (ants)
Indigenous Cuisinology (Native Cooking)
Procyonology (Raccoons) 2 episodes!
Smologies #7 (Cats)
Forensic Ecology (Nature Detective)
Smologies #6 (Wolves)
Smologies #5 (Veterinary Biology)
Ciderology (Delicious apple beverage)
and on & on it goes ... turtles, crows, possums, firemaking, wildfires, bees, toads, plus plenty of topics that apply to humans (pain, bad knees, happiness, etc) ....
I think I’m going to like this one.