Seems to be a rosemary week. While I clipped and dried and roasted my rosemary, Mandy is having different issues. Remember her gorgeous line of rosemary out front? Yes, well, some of them aren’t faring so well.
I know. It’s tragic. But the good news? Those that she started from rootings are doing fabulous! Yes! Isn’t that great? And she’s willing to share her secret mix with us. Hers and her local seed and feed experts, that is.
But sometimes it takes a village, know what I mean?
First she secured some pots. Then she cut a few fine specimens from her healthy rosemary plants and shaved off their bottom leaves. Next she dipped them in rootone and then set them in her magic mix of vermiculite, peat moss and organic soil conditioner.
This mixture will help keep her new babies nice and moist–but not too moist! Remember, rosemary likes it a bit drier than most. Overwhelming them with water is never a good thing, even as young transplants.
Don’t they just look happy? On another note, her backyard compost is doing well. Inky black and veritably odorless.
Unlike this specimen. UGH. Yes, it smells as bad as it looks, trust me. I mean, it’s food left to rot in a plastic bin–how could it not be gross? But it will work wonders in her soil!
Once it’s been decomposed by a host of unmentionables, anyway. Think: icky crawling wonderful “eaters of rotten food.” But this is nature we’re dealing with and we must maintain the proper attitude about these sorts of things. And just think of the vegetables she’ll be able to produce with this mess! Makes you wanna say yum.
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