Now Is The Best Time To Plant Your Greens

About This Episode

A reader has trouble keeping a rosemary plant alive. Plus, Grumpy’s veggie garden tip of the week.

Question Of The Week

Every spring, I buy a rosemary plant. Every fall, I bring it indoors. Every December, I throw the poor dead thing out. It's terribly embarrassing. My great grandmother brought hers in every fall, parked it in a cold attic, watered it occasionally and it always survived. Any advice?

Grumpy's Response: Now, as far as the rosemary plant, um, it needs two things when it's growing indoors. It needs a sunny window and it needs well-drained soil. So, you should only water it after the top inch of soil in the pothas gone dry. Now, I have no idea how your granny kept it alive in a cold dark attic. Maybe she practicesthe dark arts.

Related: The 12 Best Companion Plants For Rosemary

Tip Of The Week

Plant Your Greens

Now we're in September and it's cooling off. And probably, if you have a vegetable garden, most of them look horrible about this time because everything is burned up and been eaten up by bugs. Okay. So, now is a good time to yank all that stuff out and plant things that are gonna grow well in, cooler temperatures of the fall. And the first things that come to my mind are greens. And these are things like, kale and collards, mustard greens, turnip greens and spinach. Because the seeds germinate well once the nights get a little cooler. They grow better in cooler temperatures. Uh, they grow quickly. So, you can, you can sow seeds and you can have plants that you can pick, probably in 40, 50 days.

Related: 13 Easiest Vegetables To Grow In The Garden

About Ask Grumpy

Ask Grumpy is a podcast featuring Steve Bender, also known as Southern Living’s Grumpy Gardener. For more than 30 years, Grumpy has been sharing advice on what to grow, when to plant, and how to manage just about anything in your garden. Tune in for short episodes every Wednesday and Saturday as Grumpy answers reader questions, solves seasonal conundrums, and provides need-to-know advice for gardeners with his very Grumpy sense of humor. Be sure to follow Ask Grumpy on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen so you don't miss an episode.

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