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Our rosemary bush became a bit leggy and unshapely so we trimmed it severely yesterday. We are drying the cuttings to use in the wood burning stove - does anybody have other suggestions to re-use cuttings besides propagating.
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Re: Rosemary
Could add some to bathwater for a relaxing soak after a hard days gardening Makes your hair shine too
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Re: Rosemary
Save some to put on the BBQ - I'm told it makes the food taste lovely.
What about rosemary flavoured salt? Some of the finer twigs would be good. I'm not sure I'd suggest doing any flavoured oil if it's very woody, I don't know what else would leach out.
What about rosemary flavoured salt? Some of the finer twigs would be good. I'm not sure I'd suggest doing any flavoured oil if it's very woody, I don't know what else would leach out.
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Re: Rosemary
I like the idea of adding some to the bathwater and after a hard days weeding today - think I will give it a try.
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Re: Rosemary
use the wood as keba sticks
rosemary oil good for cooking and your hair
i take all my extra into work and swop it for other food hehe
rosemary oil good for cooking and your hair
i take all my extra into work and swop it for other food hehe
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Re: Rosemary
I read somewhere that lavendar can be propagated by planting it so deep that the stems are all that you see growing above the soil, in a form of layering that ends up with those stems rooting and producing separate lavender plants. Can the same thing be done with rosemary?
Re: Rosemary
Definitely can! pin the branches down and bury it!
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Re: Rosemary
I use rosemary sprigs in beeswax and walnut oil paste as a lovely fresh smelling wood wax (wooden spoons mainly).
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Re: Rosemary
Ornamental ones or for food use?
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Re: Rosemary
sounds wonderful we're planning on making spoons with an errant horse chestnut which has to be removed from the hedgeDavie Crockett wrote:I use rosemary sprigs in beeswax and walnut oil paste as a lovely fresh smelling wood wax (wooden spoons mainly).
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Ornamental ones or for food use?
Both.. There is no walnut protein in walnut oil so allergy risks are minimal and it's a drying oil so the finish is durable. Win Win
Quite twisty grain in Horse Chestnut, Short lengths and crooks for spoons should be ok though. Have you got a crook knife for the bowl?sounds wonderful we're planning on making spoons with an errant horse chestnut which has to be removed from the hedge
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