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joev
Merion Village
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You can usually move a plant without too much harm. This is a good time of year to do it. I would forgo pruning your rosemary until you're sure it won't perk back up; but I'd recommend pulling it out of the yard and putting it in a pot. Rosemary isn't quite hardy enough for Ohio winters, so you can keep it indoors during the winter. It needs a spring burst of cold, though, so you could set it back outside about March 15 next year. Or if you're OK with growing rosemary as an annual, planting in the bed is fine.
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joev
Merion Village
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Some winters it could be fine, others it might not survive. You don't necessarily need a sunny spot inside, but somewhere with some light is good. (basement is not.) I stuck mine in the kitchen window (east facing) and it did really well - it doesn't grow much, just survives.
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Cookie
Flyntonville
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joev wrote >>
Some winters it could be fine, others it might not survive. You don't necessarily need a sunny spot inside, but somewhere with some light is good. (basement is not.) I stuck mine in the kitchen window (east facing) and it did really well - it doesn't grow much, just survives.How about something like a mud porch? Sunny and warmer than outside, but colder than inside? I've been thinking of moving some of the herbs to pots anyway to free up space in my little patch of garden.
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Kerry
Merion Village
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Great online resource for gardening questions : http://ohioline.osu.edu/
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Cookie
Flyntonville
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I'm thinking of moving more of my herbs to containers to make room in my little garden plot. If I put all of my perennials in containers and move them inside over the winter, will they survive? Do I put things like chives and tarragon back outside earlier than the other herbs?
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mrsgeedeck
Castle of Lions
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Just ran across what appears to be a pretty handy method of making your own starter pots from newspaper.
The website itself is built around a product you need to by, but the directions are simple enough I'm sure it could be replicated with household items.Posted 2 years ago # -
alexs
Limestone bluffs of the Scioto
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This winter I'm experimenting, I have rosemary and sage both inside and out in the herb garden. So far all four plants are OK. I've frozen plants outside but I've also dried them up inside, it can happen fast.
Oh to have your own fresh herbs, though.
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mrsgeedeck
Castle of Lions
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alexs wrote >>
This winter I'm experimenting, I have rosemary and sage both inside and out in the herb garden. So far all four plants are OK. I've frozen plants outside but I've also dried them up inside, it can happen fast.
Oh to have your own fresh herbs, though.I'd love to grow fresh herbs inside, but our cat is very nondiscriminatory in the differences in cat grass and basil.
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chrisgillespie
Short North/Victorian Village
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Well, now I had figured the issue with the cats was what comes up after they eat something like that. I didn't even think of them destroying the plant. I'm sure that happens, too. I grow citrus in the house that do fine with the cats. Haven't grown herbs in this house yet, but will be growing them in a window when the kitchen is done. Hopefully, there won't be room for the cats to get to the herbs...we'll see.
I feel for you with the deer. My dad has tried about everything at his place at Lake of the Ozarks. His whole yard smelled like rotten eggs for a summer, and his even gone so far as to "mark" his yard after dark. It's a tough one...
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alexs
Limestone bluffs of the Scioto
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Plant a garden of native plants to support the wildlife, and - the wildlife eats the plants.
In and near some of the junkyards on McKinley, there's quite an infestation of sunflowers, it looks really incongruous growing amind junked vehicles.
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vestanpance
Harrison West/at work OSU
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Has anyone ever grown their own tobacco (for cigars, not cigarettes)? I was thinking about trying it just to see what I get. I know you have to do all kinds of drying and furmenting after you pick it, but I just want to see if the plant will grow in my harrison west garden. :)
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Mercurius
First Avenue
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vestanpance wrote >>
Has anyone ever grown their own tobacco (for cigars, not cigarettes)? I was thinking about trying it just to see what I get. I know you have to do all kinds of drying and furmenting after you pick it, but I just want to see if the plant will grow in my harrison west garden. :)I have seeds and planted them but nothing ever came up. I think you would have to start them indoors and then move them to the garden or try more hardy seeds than what I used.
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tourist19
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vestanpance wrote >>
Has anyone ever grown their own tobacco (for cigars, not cigarettes)? I was thinking about trying it just to see what I get. I know you have to do all kinds of drying and furmenting after you pick it, but I just want to see if the plant will grow in my harrison west garden. :)If you do manage to get any to propagate beware of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. It can damage your plants and also very easily spread to a lot of other plants (tomatoes, cucumbers, others).
I found this website: http://www.rusticgirls.com/gardening/growing-tobacco.html
We might not be in the right climate zone for tobacco, so I would recommend more research.
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mrsgeedeck
Castle of Lions
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Speaking of questions...we live on the corner of 5th and Forsythe in Vic Village, across from the Family Dairy on 5th and Highland (I think) there's an empty lot on the corner, does anyone know whats going on with the lot, or how I can determine who owns it? Every time I walk past that place I think it'd be a great place to set up a community garden.
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vestanpance
Harrison West/at work OSU
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tourist19 wrote >>
vestanpance wrote >>
Has anyone ever grown their own tobacco (for cigars, not cigarettes)? I was thinking about trying it just to see what I get. I know you have to do all kinds of drying and furmenting after you pick it, but I just want to see if the plant will grow in my harrison west garden. :)If you do manage to get any to propagate beware of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. It can damage your plants and also very easily spread to a lot of other plants (tomatoes, cucumbers, others).
I found this website: http://www.rusticgirls.com/gardening/growing-tobacco.html
We might not be in the right climate zone for tobacco, so I would recommend more research.thanks for the link
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