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More content-ful posts will have to wait for another day, I'm afraid. But, the house is coming along!

Last week, we bought Plants for the Garden. We're keeping them in pots, so when we move again we can take them with us. We have a bay tree (hi

mostly_a_cat :), sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, mint and lavender. I'm not sure they're quite frost-proof yet (and the sage is looking a bit forlorn), so I brought them inside yesterday. Hopefully when it stops snowing, they can go out again :-) Anyone know about the care and feeding of the above?

The house is beginning to look more like a house, and less like a pile of boxes. I even did some DIY (the landlord pace Agents was happy for us to) - I bought masonry bits, and used my Grandfather's old power drill (a Black & Decker Super D 500) to put up coat hooks in the hallway. They've not fallen down yet :)

Today I made dinner - roast lamb (easy, but tasty), followed by banana mousse with butterscotch ripple. A hit, I think!

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Anyone know about the care and feeding of the above?

Yes. Keep them in pots. They will take over if allowed free range in a garden. Water them. My plants die from a lack of water; only a few times have I lost anything to frost. The bay tree is probably the only one that is at all cold-sensitive.

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I kill plants. Do not ask me for advice on how to keep them alive. They hate me. It's very depressing.

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Our herbs in pots usually die off after we forget to water them, Na'Lon has a regular mantra of "I need to water the plants" which sems to be the prelude to ritually not doing so (well its becoming ritualistic), the landlord's bay bush in the garden has grown massively (a good 4' across and 7' tall) despite being left to its own devices and the rain (or lack thereof). I gave it a hefty cutting back a month ago and its still doing fine.

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I have never had any trouble with any of the above being susceptible to frost. Mint is a perennial and will die down over winter, but will come back again in the spring. Mint will really take over a garden and will propagate from a small piece of root, so definitely keep this in a pot, we do. I have recently planted some sage and it is fine so your plant is probably just suffering from recent re-potting. Don't let them dry out too much (essential when keeping them in pots), but also don't keep them too wet. If keeping them in pots for a long period, they will need feeding as they will use up all the nutrients in the soil. You can get these in pre-measured doses according to the size of the pot. If they have just been re-potted into fresh soil, they won't need feeding for this season.

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The coat hooks will wait until you have lots of visitors round, and are justabout to serve dinner. Then the whole lot - coats, hooks, hats, scarves - will come crashing down, probably burying a small child in the process.

Or is that just in our house? ;-)

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Given the size of masonry-bit I used to make the hole (7mm, nearly the entirely length of the bit), and that I rawl-plugged it in, there's going to be a f***-off big chunk of plaster and brick coming out of the wall too if it does fail...

I'll try and have the presence of mind to take a photo!

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