Prostrate Rosemary - 1 plant v.14 cm - Orto Mio

Rosemary is essential for flavoring roasted meats, particularly lamb. It is excellent in dishes with fish, chicken, and rabbit, for flavoring sauces, bread, dressings, cooked vegetables (potatoes) and fried foods, and in omelets. It can also be used to flavor grappa and liqueurs. Extra virgin olive oil flavored with rosemary is superb. Some twigs burned on the fire repel insects.

Transplant Period:
From January to September.

Characteristics:
It can be consumed directly from this pot. It grows very well in pots or containers with good drainage at the bottom and positioned in full sun, sheltered from cold winds. In spring, the main shoots are trimmed. Prostrate Rosemary has a creeping/arching growth habit.

Culinary Use:
Essential for flavoring roasted meats, especially lamb. It is excellent in dishes with fish, chicken, and rabbit, for flavoring sauces, bread, dressings, cooked vegetables (potatoes) and fried foods, and in omelets. It can also be used to flavor grappa and liqueurs. Extra virgin olive oil flavored with rosemary is superb. Some twigs burned on the fire repel insects.

Healing Properties:
Herb with aperitive, digestive, balsamic, and stimulating properties. It stimulates diuresis, sweating, and the circulatory system. Chopped fresh rosemary leaves in hot water provide a purifying bath or foot soak for the skin, toning, deodorizing, and useful against cellulite. Rosemary shampoo revives hair color. Its name means "dew of the sea".

Growing Tips

Orto Mio guidelines for the species, to be adapted to the variety, local climate, and cultivation in soil or pots.

Exposure and Soil

Full sun; light and draining soil. It can also be grown in pots or boxes.

Watering

Occasional, more regular only during dry periods.

Care

Protect from severe frosts; apply manure in autumn.

Indicative Data from the Producer

Exposure	Sun

The values are indicative: the harvest cycle varies with the season, climate, and growing conditions.