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"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:

> It's more than that; it's also a lack of knowledge. See below.

Me too. I lack the knowledge because I don't have the inclination.

> I didn't know that tomato plants *needed* to be supported. That's what I
> mean by lack of knowledge. I know that plants need water; that's about the
> entirety of my gardening knowledge.

Someone told me to support them. If I got ten tomatoes total, I was
lucky in the past. This year, perfect June temperatures produced a
bunch. The bush I was yammering about was an extra that I didn't plant
in a pot. An extra that I didn't know what to do with.
My *real* tomatoes are supported by a wire cone. Nevertheless, I don't
water them enough.

> Rosemary seems to grow easily around here, so I'm thinking of trying to
> plant some as ground cover in a side yard. But I don't know how quickly it
> would spread. How many plants would I need to start off with? Does the soil
> need to be more or less acidic? How often does it need watering, and how
> much water should it get when I do water? Really, I know next to nothing
> about gardening, and that's why plants die under my care.

I don't know if rosemary spreads. I grow it in a pot. It looks sort of
like a tiny pine tree and doesn't seem to spread within the pot. I ought
to google for sure. I know it gets bigger than ground cover. It might
even make a tree if given the chance. Somebody reading this knows.
My thyme seems like good ground cover. It's three years old and about
ten inches tall in the pot. Real gardeners here can tell you if I'm full
of it.
OTOH, plant a cheap tiny container of rosemary somewhere in the sunny
side of your yard and see if it takes or takes over . Then ignore it.
If I can grow it, anyone can. I live in whatever climate Northern Nevada
close to the Sierra is in. Usually not below zero and not above a
hundred, although we broke a hundred and soundly busted a 1919 record,
yesterday.

leo