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Rosemary
How to sow rosemary: Plugs or seed
Sun requirement for rosemary: Plant in Full Sun
Rosmarinus officinalis, commonly known as rosemary, is a woody, perennial herb with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region.
It is a member of the mint family Lamiaceae, which includes many other herbs. The name "rosemary" derives from the Latin for "dew" (ros) and "sea" (marinus), or "dew of the sea". The plant is also sometimes called 'anthos', from the ancient Greek word ἄνθος, meaning "flower". Rosemary has a fibrous root system.
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For rosemary, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 8°C and a shortest growing cycle of 120 days at its best temperature, about 1920 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your rosemary will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Only plantings by members who have set their locations are shown.
by shiny,
Chop up the kamo kamo.
Remove seeds. (Save these to grow for next year)
Leave skin on.
Roast with sprigs of rosemary at 180C for about 40 minutes (until soft) It's okay to do this the day before
Remove skins (easier if the kamo kamo is cool). place in pot with chicken …
kamokamos
rosemary
garlic
pūhā
by Skud,
… but I'm tired of it, so I won't. I just wish our mutual understanding of the term "quiet enjoyment" involved fewer inspections and more autonomy in the garden.
Anyway. The other day I picked up some herbs from the CERES nursery, and on Monday I planted them along the fron…
rosemary
oregano
thyme
A summary of nutritional data per 100g for Rosemary, fresh, raw.
| Energy | 396.0 kJ |
|---|---|
| Protein | 3.3 g |
| Fat, total | 5.9 g |
| Carbohydrate | 0.6 g |
| - Sugars | 0.4 g |
| Fibre | 14.1 g |
| Sodium | 26.0 mg |
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Rosmarinus officinalis L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Asteridae Lamiales Labiatae |
|---|---|
| Life form | shrub |
| Life span | perennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | shallow (20-50 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, light |
| Optimal soil fertility | moderate |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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