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Re: mold

Dear Cleome:
    Read the label on your systemic fungicide and make sure its safe for
food.   You won't be able to harvest your Rosemary for food purposes if
the label doesn't say its safe.
    Take some type of cleaner, even dishwashing liquid, and clean the
sooty mold from each individual rosemary needle and stem.  The books say
the sooty mold are the remains of other insects on your plants.   Good
luck.
    Think about how your can increase the  circulation around your
rosemary plants.   Besides ceiling type fans I use small cheap desk fans
near plants that need better circulation.
    Rosemaries are worth the effort.   My greenhouse rosemaries are all
in bloom now.   They're fragrant and uplifting for March.  The outside
Rosemary 'Arp' survived another winter outside here and seem to be
forming buds.  Rosemary 'Hills ____' survives even colder winters than
'Arp'.
Best,Vicki

Cleome@ix.netcom.com wrote:

>  rosemary tree that's about 3
> years old and about 3 feet tall.  It goes outside in the summer and
> inside in the winter.  This winter it has mold on all the outer
> branches.  I gave it some systemic fungicide and on one of those very
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