Growing rosemary in the garden - how to have fragrant greens at hand all summer
Real gourmets just can't imagine meat especially lamb, without the original rosemary flavor. If you also love this spice, growing rosemary in the garden will provide a year-round supply fragrant leaves. The relatively unpretentious nature of the plant will allow even a beginner can handle it. Having found a suitable place for the rosemary, you can fly to get a lush bush, only occasionally looking to him with a watering can.
Growing rosemary in the garden - where is it better to plant
For a spicy plant, the most sunny area, sheltered from the wind. Rosemary is very picky about light and warmth. A flowerbed in a draft, where moisture often stagnates, is not for him. It's better equip a garden bed on the sunny side, you can on a slope. In partial shade rosemary will also be able to grow, but only the branches will stretch, and the aroma will not be so expressive.
The soil for fragrant grass should be light, calcareous. If the ground is heavy, the bed must be fertilized and loosened by adding humus, sand and some peat. It is imperative to take care of the drainage by laying broken brick on the bottom of the hole. It is not necessary to deepen the seedling much.
Garden care rosemary
Spicy herb will not cause much trouble. It will be enough to occasionally look at the garden and:
- water once a week (if it rains, you will not need additional watering);
- loosen the soil around the bush so that a crust does not form;
- weed, removing weeds;
- in spring, pour mullein infusion several times;
- in early autumn, feed with superphosphate.
The formation of bushes can be carried out simultaneously with the cutting of shoots for culinary purposes. Old, overgrown rosemary can be rejuvenated in early spring by drastically cutting it off almost to a stump.
Features: wintering garden rosemary
Unfortunately, in our conditions, starting with an average stripes, rosemary does not hibernate in the ground. In the south you can try to hide well a garden bed, but only if in winter the temperature does not drop below 10 ° frost. On the rest of the territory of our homeland, the bushes for the winter must be taken away into the house. To do this, they should be dug up and planted in pots. Otherwise it will be necessary to plant the spice again every year.
Rosemary can overwinter in a cool room, but it should be light. Watering in this case should be minimal, only to the bushes did not dry out at all. If the pot will be warm, it should be watered more often (about once a week). But you need to refuse feeding - let the bush will rest. In the spring, when the frosts pass and the soil warms up, the rosemary can be returned to the garden.