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Wed, Dec 24, 2008

Rosemary Tree

Posted at 4:50 pm MST to Miscellaneous

I went down to Whole Foods yesterday to restock on produce to accompany my Christmas roast (buffalo top sirloin). They have been selling 18 inch 'Christmas trees' in 6 inch pots that are actually dense rosemary plants sheared into pinetree shapes.

I decided to get one. I have had no luck with house plants since I moved to Colorado years ago: it is very hard to keep them from drying out too much in this climate, especially in a house woth forced-air heat. But the little rosemary trees are only 10 dollars, and they charge 3 dollars for a little package of a couple of sprigs of fresh rosemary.

If I harvest some rosemary for cooking a few times before I manage to kill the plant, and then save the dried branches, too, I think I will at least be breaking even.

And it is possible that starting with a dense plant with lots of branches instead of a seedling will make the plant harder to kill. I should probably try to get one of those automatic plant-watering siphons...or one of those dry-soil alarms. I would really like to have some houseplants that lasted for a while. Herbs for cooking -- which wouldn't be a problem if the cat tries to nibble them -- especially.

I wonder if I could turn my old fish tank into an herb terrarium? Google is our friend...

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