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Sage

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  • 13-06-2019 6:12am
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    Gangu
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    We have a sage plant that is enormous. It’s quite beautiful. I’m sentimental when it comes to my plants. It’s now encroaching on things around it. Our limited consumption cannot keep up with it. Any ideas about what to use it for when I cut it back?


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    baaba maal
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    Personally I find some herbs are so vigorous that I have given up trying to use all of the growth- fennel and sage in particular. I just keep cutting back to prevent them from going to flower, and therefore extending the growing season. Having said that, I think that sage freezes well once you separate the leaves out, dry them and store them in a freezer bag.


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    smacl
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    Same, I've a border hedge comprising rosemary and sage and end up shredding most of it once it gets to big. One other big use is smoking stuff over the barbeque, but it still only makes for a tiny fraction of what gets composted.


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    New Home
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    You can coat the leaves in batter and deep fry them, they're delicious! Or you can use them dry to add scent to pot pourris, or to put it in sachets with lavender for the wardrobes. Or you can dry the branches you cut and add them to the stove/fireplace when you light a fire. You can also add a leaf to chamomile tea, it goes very well with it, the two plants complement each other very well.

    My grandmother used to cut her sage right back, almost to the wooden part, at the end of each winter or just before the weather started to turn mild, and every year it'd grow right back, full of luscious, healthy leaves. :)


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    Graces7
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    New Home wrote: »
    You can coat the leaves in batter and deep fry them, they're delicious! Or you can use them dry to add scent to pot pourris, or to put it in sachets with lavender for the wardrobes. Or you can dry the branches you cut and add them to the stove/fireplace when you light a fire. You can also add a leaf to chamomile tea, it goes very well with it, the two plants complement each other very well.

    My grandmother used to cut her sage right back, almost to the wooden part, at the end of each winter or just before the weather started to turn mild, and every year it'd grow right back, full of luscious, healthy leaves. :)

    Yearning here.. so far I have mint and lemon balm and long for more


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