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If you like Rosemary, read this (taken from "Grown in Wales"'s FB ).
Restrictions have now been introduced on the import of plants than are carriers of the disease Xylella Fastidiosa. This will include Rosemary which is a plant that is commonly imported from the continent as a herb. It is grown in huge quantities and you will all have seen them in the same pots, looking pretty good in every garden centre and florist in the land. We competed with these imports by having a range of varieties (I think we have 9 on the nursery now) having a bigger pot and proudly declaring that they are grown without peat and synthetic pesticides here in Wales.
Unlike most of the herbs that we grow Rosemary is really a shrub and as such it takes longer to produce a decent plant so production for next year starts now with a cutting that, once rooted , is potted into a 9cm pot for overwintering. These are then potted into their final pot as the weather starts to warm up in the spring . At a guess I would say that once they are potted they don't want to experience a minus 5 frost. If the pot freezes solid you get problems so we tend to pot small batches at first,just in case. They are quite happy confined in the smaller pot. They are one of those plants that don't seem to mind it which is good for us because we can keep potting from a 9cm into our large 1.4L as we need them which saves space.
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Time to take cuttings ready for next year!!
Restrictions have now been introduced on the import of plants than are carriers of the disease Xylella Fastidiosa. This will include Rosemary which is a plant that is commonly imported from the continent as a herb. It is grown in huge quantities and you will all have seen them in the same pots, looking pretty good in every garden centre and florist in the land. We competed with these imports by having a range of varieties (I think we have 9 on the nursery now) having a bigger pot and proudly declaring that they are grown without peat and synthetic pesticides here in Wales.
Unlike most of the herbs that we grow Rosemary is really a shrub and as such it takes longer to produce a decent plant so production for next year starts now with a cutting that, once rooted , is potted into a 9cm pot for overwintering. These are then potted into their final pot as the weather starts to warm up in the spring . At a guess I would say that once they are potted they don't want to experience a minus 5 frost. If the pot freezes solid you get problems so we tend to pot small batches at first,just in case. They are quite happy confined in the smaller pot. They are one of those plants that don't seem to mind it which is good for us because we can keep potting from a 9cm into our large 1.4L as we need them which saves space.
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Time to take cuttings ready for next year!!
The Moneyless Chicken says:-
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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