"Michael "Dog3"" > wrote in message
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> brooklyn1 >
> : in rec.food.cooking
>
>>
>> No mystery here... depending on growing zone perennials and biennials
>> will easily survive a cold spell... it's the annuals that will go
>> kaput.
>
> Well, I admit to paying little attention the herbs in the garden. I've
> always planted them as annuals and assumed they would eventually die off
> as
> the cooler season hit. Shows you how much research I've done on them 
> Nada. A couple of years ago I noticed that some of them made it through
> and came back the next year. I felt like such a dunce. I still can't get
> rosemary to make it through the winter without digging it up and bringing
> it indoors. I'm puzzled why the cilantro died off after making it for 4
> seasons. I'll have to read up on them and maybe plant them in more
> appropriate areas if they'll winter well.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> "Like all great divas, I owe everything to the kindness of *** men."
> ~Margaret Cho
>
> You can find me at: - michael at lonergan dot us dot com
Ahh forgot about my cilantro, bloody squirrels ate all the seeds and new
shoots last year and it was gone!
Must re plant in the spring.
Sarah