Eagle-Tribune Blogs: Yard Dirt

It’s still too cold to do much outdoors, but I thought I’d take a moment to update you on my indoor plants.

Some did well this winter. This is the Night-Blooming Cereus plant that we started from a leaf cutting, last year with just one new shoot and now:

The winter was less kind to my big rosemary plant. I posted on the blog in the fall when it was full of blossoms.

Sadly, it got some sort of insect disease. The needles turned brown and fell off. I banished it to the deck to protect my other plants. It’s too bad. That was a fun plant.

And finally, my latest experiment with cilantro:

This is the cilantro I started from seeds I collected from my own garden in the fall. It’s the first time I ever grew something from seeds I harvested myself. Not bad.

Of course, I was too attached to it as a house plant to eat it. We continued to buy fresh cilantro from the grocery store (ugh!) and now this cilantro is flowering and ending its life cycle. Maybe I’ll collect the seeds and keep the cycle going.

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