Gather stems for drying from spring to autumn. Plants are often short-lived, so root a few stem cuttings each spring to always have vigorous young plants. Position Full sun. Frost tolerant Hardy through mild frosts. Feeding Drench plants with a water soluble organic plant food one month after setting them out. The species Salvia can be found worldwide and includes more than different types. If sage is planted in the right place in the garden, it can spread over several square meters.
Early spring is a good time to cut back sage. If the leaves are cut before winter, the plant might have difficulty to get through the winter time. Now, in February, the shoots can be cut back to about 5 cm.
After pruning, when the weather improves, the sage will get new sprouts and grow bushier. However, if new shoots have already formed when you plan to cut back your sage, no further pruning should be done. Did I cut it too far back or does it have something to do with the temperature of the house?
The average temperature of the house is in the mid 70s Fahrenheit. Which I know is still warm, but better than the 90s of outside. Don't know, but have had houseplants just sit through winter, then start again as spring developed. No change on my part, just spring light. I started common sage in pot last summer did beautiful, left in yard over winter and now my plant is blooming. It has double in height this spring but total height is only about foot right now.
You can leave the flowers on the plant; they do not affect the flavor of the leaves. In fact, the flowers are edible as well! They look great on top of a cake when paired with other edible flowers, such as nasturtiums , pansies , and marigolds.
This is why cuttings are generally preferred. You could harvest your first year but it will be small. After its second growing season, sage should be trimmed back in the spring to avoid the center of the plant becoming semi- woody. Leaves where nice and green then all the sudden something was eating the leaves and it started turning brown and I water the same way I was in the beginning.
I somewhat neglected my spice plants this summer and it is only my second season growing them so I still have many questions. The most important one right now is, can I use the fallen sage leaves? They are clean, but gray. They fell in the pot I have the plant in on my deck. Crushed, the leaves smell great. I am hesitant to store or cook with them until I get some advice.
Tough call. Only you know how clean the leaves are—The color sounds normal. Unless they appear moldly or the like, they are probably fine. If you hesitate to cook with them, crush them to add fragrance to a room. Pick others and dry them yourself for use in cooking. I purchased a small white sage plant from a local nursery about 2 months ago.
I transplanted it to a large terra cotta pot in my front yard about 2 weeks after I brought it home. The plant seems to be doing well. It has grown several inches since transplant. I noticed though that a few of the older leaves are turning a dark reddish purple. I know some varieties of sage produce some purple leaves. But I didn't think that happened to white sage. Should I remove these or leave them be?
There is no yellowing and after looking around the internet for common sage diseases I didn't find anything like what I'm seeing. We found one source that says the leaves may turn purplish in times of severe drought. This is, however, a drought-tolerant plant, which can be killed if watered too much, so be careful if you want to see if a little water helps; water very sparingly — normally this plant can go weeks without water just relying on rainfall , although newly planted ones need a little more.
Has it been cold out at night? Add grit to the planting hole if you have heavy soil. After flowering, give sage plants a gentle prune to stop them getting woody. At the start and end of summer, sprinkle a couple of handfuls of bonemeal or other slow-release fertiliser around the sage plants, gently working it into the soil.
Perennial sages can be short-lived. Take cuttings every couple of years to insure against losses. Sage is usually trouble free, although it can suffer from red spider mite and leafhoppers , which can discolour the leaves.
Blast them off with a jet from your hose or spray with a soap-based organic insecticide if necessary. Annual and biennial sages are easy to grow from seed in spring. Start them off indoors ready to plant out after the last frost has passed. In this video guide, Monty Don demonstrates how to propagate Mediterranean herbs , including sage , from semi-ripe cuttings. Find out how to select suitable cuttings material, how to prepare it and what potting mix to use, then how to plant the cuttings and what aftercare to provide:.
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