Are there any herbs bes don't love?

Rosemary 'Roman Beauty'

Mixed herbs for Mothers day gifts

 

I have a lot of marginal land which is slowly being taken over by wild thyme and rosemary as I have neither the mechanical means nor the time to cultivate it. My intention is to help the process and replace the weeds with rows of rosemary and russian sage so I've got about a thousand rosemary cuttings on the go and I keep adding more as and when the established plants produce them.

I tried planting them directly in the soil but had a very high failure rate even when using rooting powder. Since I've started using cuttings trays I'm losing less than 5% of cuttings. Once the compost is full of roots, I plant them in spring in rows in a sheltered field with irrigation to allow them to adapt to the poor soil and come autumn I plant them in their final destination.

 

Yes, they do love rosemary! My husband just brought back an organic monofloral rosemary honey from Portugal recently. Very interesting flavor.

 

Monofloral rosemary honey is the larger portuguese monofloral production. It is very much appreciated here in Portugal. Rosemary is almost whole wild here.

Correction:When I said rosemary, I mean Lavender (Lavandula stoechas)