Rosmarino in summer can suffer more than you think. There is a common mistake that many make without knowing it, and risks compromising the health of the plant just when it should give the best.
Leaves that look like cacapecora, dried sprigs suddenly, perfume more and more off … something doesn’t come back, right? Yet the rosemary is there, apparently healthy, but in reality he asks for help. You don’t need to be botanical to understand it: just stop for a moment and listen to it, even if only with your eyes. Resistant yes, but not immune to the mistakes. There are those who place it next to the tomatoes thinking is a winning combination, or those who water it as if it were a thirsty daisy. In reality, rosemary has all his rules. Sometimes it is enough to observe better: it reacts to light, to the water, to the wind, but it does it with discretion. And it is precisely when the great heat that risks big.
Many care with love, of course, but without knowing that, in summer, a wrong move can ruin him within a few days. There is no need to overdo it. Indeed, often too much … I crawl. So what is that error that everyone makes in good faith but that risks putting the rosemary ko?
Too much water: the silent enemy of rosemary
In the heat we worry immediately: “Will he be thirsty?”. And down liters of water. But here’s the deception. Rosmarino is not a plant to be pampered with continuous watering. On the contrary, he loves dry soils, almost poor. He is used to the sun and scarcity. When it receives too much water, its roots drowned literally. The symptom? The leaves begin to lose color, they become yellowish and pumps, especially at the base. Then comes that classic unpleasant smell, of wetland and march. And there is often too late. The roots now breathe anymore. And he, the rosemary, surrenders.
In summer, you have to slow down. Intense only when the earth is really dry. A simple trick: put a finger in the ground. If it is still fresh below, it is better to wait. The sun does not frighten him. The stagnant water yes, and a lot.
How to cultivate a healthy rosemary even with 40 degrees
It is not very enough, really. No Zen garden secret, just a few smart care. The sun, for example, is his best friend. He wants him full, direct, all day if possible. So balconies exposed to the south, coial terraces, even sunny windowsions: everything perfect.
And the vase? There is also playing an important game there. We need drainage. It is not an option. A good floor of expanded clay and well -open holes avoid lethal stagnation. Better still if the vase is in terracotta: it lets the temperature temperature breathe and keeps more stable.
Here are some useful tips to score:
- Full sun: direct light, no half measures.
- Draining vase: holes, expanded clay and no full sautés.
- Light ground: sandy, dry, preferably not rich.
- Light pruning: at the end of spring, to stimulate the shape.
- No random water: observe, touch, wait.
During the hot days, it can make sense to move it to the shade only in the most torrid hours, but without exaggerating. It is not done to protect him from the sun, but to avoid an exaggerated thermal shock.
Attention also to fertilizers and repotted
Another classic mistake? Strong fertilizers or summer repotes. When it’s hot, the roots of rosemary are already facing a challenge. Putting them under further stress is a bad idea. Better to postpone to more mild moments.
If you really want to fertilize, only delicate and natural products, perhaps slowly released. But anyway, never in heat peaks. And to repot, wait for spring: the ideal time to make it set calmly.
Little things, of course. But they count. Like the water: never very cold. The ground feels it, and the plant stiffens. Or the vase: in plastic it holds too much heat. In terracotta, however, you breathe better. And this makes the difference.
In short, before thinking that rosemary is unrecoverable, it is always worth observing it with a more careful eye. Sometimes just suspend the care and give them a little breath. Others, prune with criterion to make it reborn.
With a few gestures, targeted and without excess, it can return to being that fragrant and resistant bush that you love so much.
And the pleasure of collecting a sprig, beautiful fresh, while cooking … well, that is priceless.
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