How to Grow Rosemary Quickly from a Sprig

Rosemary is one of the most used aromatic plants in the kitchen, but it also offers many health benefits and is an ideal ingredient for preparing infusions, oils and tinctures. Precisely because of its usefulness, rosemary is an ingredient that we should always have available at home.

What better way than to grow rosemary from a twig? We explain how to do it below. Reproducing rosemary is very simple and we can do it starting from a twig of this plant, a little water and a few very simple steps.

Another of its advantages is that rosemary can also be reproduced by cuttings, that is, a strong and healthy fragment of a plant.

Carrying out this process at home is very simple and we explain it to you step by step:

Cut 15 centimeters diagonally from a sprig of rosemary and remove the leaves at its base.

Fill a glass with water and place the twig in it. Let it soak overnight.

Place the glass with the plant near a window, in an area of ​​the house that is not very cold.

If you notice water evaporating during the process, add a little room temperature water.

A week later the first roots will have formed. When the roots are well formed (about three weeks later), the rosemary is ready to be placed in a pot with potting soil.

Put some fertilizer along with the soil, make a hole in the center and insert the twig.

During the first week, water every two or three days. Remember that rosemary suffers from excessive watering.

Now that you know how to reproduce rosemary from a twig, start immediately to have a leafy plant in the shortest time possible.