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Hi ya'll! I'm new to this message forum thing, so I hope I get everything right.
I live in Savannah, Ga and have a roemary plant that I got last Dec. It's in a pot as I live in an apartment and cannot put it in the ground. It nearly doubled in size during our rainy March, but as the weather got hotter, and hotter, and hotter still as August came, the bottom of the plant started turning brown. I moved it to a less sunny spot, but that didn't help at all. Thinking that it might be the heat, I moved it inside my apartment to the sunniest window I have, which is still not that sunny. The plant is continuing to brown, so that now only the very top of it is still green. I have used just a regular monthly fertilizer on it. Any suggestions? Bigger pot maybe? [*]null
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Welcome to the Garden Helper Marie! I am in Effingham. I don't have the answer, but you posted your question in the right spot. If you hang out a while, someone will be along shortly with the correct answer!
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Hi there, Check out this info on rosemary, that may help... The Gardener's Helper
I have a book at home on herbs I'll look and see what it says when I leave work. I've had small rosemary plants do the same thing when I tried to grow them in my bay window in my kitchen. I wasn't able to save them but hopefully your luck will be better. I now have a fairly large rosemary living in a pot outside on my patio and he's growing away and is doing fine. The difference has been more sun, but indirect sun, and better soil that drains compeltely.
Good luck. I'll post again if I find anything.
[ September 11, 2011, 11:11 PM: Message edited by: Bill ]
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Sorry, I can't figure out how to attach the web site... so anyway go up to the gardening section of this website and do a search on rosemary. That's the info I was trying to send. Or type in the following as the website address: http://www.thegardenhelper.com/rosemary.html I guess I'll have to work on that whole attaching thing.
* * * * Women and cats will do as they please. Men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Plants: 766 | From: The real OC in sunny So. Cal. | Registered: Aug 2003
| Seeded: 216.114.206.2
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I found this summer, the hard way...that water drainage is really important for rosemary. I supersaturated one I was taking care of for a friend (oops), unintentionally, and it quickly gave up. I managed to save it though, cut off all the dead bits, let it dry out in the sun and now water it only when it dries out completely. It is recovering from its near-death experience. Plants: 71 | From: germany | Registered: Feb 2003
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