"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:40:30 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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>>> Herbs do best on my kitchen sink surround. There is very little space
>>> that will work for this. As soon as a plant gets bigger they have to
>>> be moved. I've been using my 2 rosemary plants in lieu of a Christmas
>>> tree the last several years. With the advent of those itty bitty
>>> battery powered lights it's no problem lighting them. The rosemary
>>> does suffer towards the end of winter with limited light.
>>> Janet US
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>>I tried growing them in my kitchen garden window. Just gets too cold in
>>the
>>winter and hot in the summer.
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> But you have a yard... and it doesn't get so cold where you live that
> parsley won't survive outdoors in winter. Here it gets down to -20º
> and lower in winter and parsley actually survives under the snow.

The parsley that I grew outdoors did die off in the winter but it also
reseeded itself. I just gave up on trying to grow any sort of edibles
outdoors. I was using Earth Boxes. Those didn't work so well. When we did
get too much rain, the boxes couldn't drain fast enough and everything got
too soggy. And then there were the critters.