Timeline for How to revitalize my potted Rosemary
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| Aug 9, 2018 at 22:14 | comment | added | stormy | FYI guys, spraying Neem was never to be meant as a preventative. Only to be used with a positive ID. Rosemary is one of these 'filler' plants, non-descript that the staff would come out to the patios and smash some of the leaves now and then. The fragrance was addictive. Don't use Neem or any other pesticide as a preventative. | |
| Jul 13, 2018 at 16:53 | comment | added | Bamboo | @renesis well you're not alone in thinking it was small, like basil - I thought the same years ago before I got into horticulture! | |
| Jul 13, 2018 at 1:33 | comment | added | renesis | Ohh, PS, Rosemary is actually quite common in municipal & commercial landscaping around here, so I do quite often see it at the 6'x6' size you mention. Prior to living here, I have to admit that I thought rosemary was a small herbaceous plant on the scale of basil or something! | |
| Jul 13, 2018 at 1:16 | comment | added | renesis | Thanks Bamboo. Noted on the Neem oil. Really i just tend to give all my potted plants a spritz, mainly aiming for the chilis, strawberries, chives etc. & well, if there is some left in the bottle I spray the others even if not really needed (rosemary, fig, thyme... CA Grey Pine...). Back to the Rosemary though, never had a problem with water sitting at the bottom of the pot, but thanks for the note. I can go to a bit bigger pot, but probably only once, after which I assume I'll have to trim the roots if it becomes bound. | |
| Jul 12, 2018 at 21:44 | comment | added | Bamboo | @stormy my answer is not meant to be a criticism of yours, so you don;t need to explain or defend it. I'm fully aware that, in the States, you use far more fertilizer than we do here, but the advice I've given is, nonetheless, still my advice: it was what I meant to say in the first place, and it still is. | |
| Jul 12, 2018 at 21:23 | comment | added | stormy | I am looking at a plant transferring Nitrogen from the lower leaves that don't get the light to the top of the plant that does. Yellow interior, nice green only on the top. I am not seeing any yellowing of the top leaves/canopy. Keeping a plant in a pot will automatically keep the plant at a size relevant to the size of the pot. Trees in the natural world say, get 100' high? Trees in urban situations will only get 30 feet high. All plants have to have NPK added to potting soil and almost always to garden soil. Soil does not come with chemistry for all the plants we humans want to grow. | |
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