Pineapple sage.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs
Subject: Pineapple Sage
From: winter.halcyon.com (Michelle Winters)
Date: 20 May 1995 05:42:34 GMT

I just acquired a Pineapple Sage plant... Can anyone offer some basic care & feeding tips? All I got with it was a little tag that says "full sun", but no watering or feeding instructions. I'm new to gardening... Is Miracle Gro(tm) safe to use with this type of plant?

Any help, via posting or email, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Michelle

From: flyinggoat.aol.com (Flyinggoat)

>I just acquired a Pineapple Sage plant...

If you live in California, the plant will get very very big. Water it like lemon verbena (sparingly but don't let it dry out.) You could feed it maybe once a month, but that would be encouraging it. If it's left in a pot, maybe it will stay small, but my mom's grew in a window box to 10 ft. Hummingbirds really like it and may get territorial around it, so watch your head when you go near it (they dive bomb people). I use Miracle Gro on everything.

Betty Cunningham (Flyinggoat.aol.com)

From: Arthur Coyne <arthurpod.delphi.com>

>I just acquired a Pineapple Sage plant...

You're in for a pleasant surprise, Michelle, because pineapple sage is a wonderfully hardy plant. Last year I got one and the plant label said it would grow to be 18 inches tall. Well, by the end of the season it was over 5 feet tall! It also has a constant profusion of flowers. I'm not sure if it has medicinal uses, but as a garden plant it can't be beat for ease of growth. You probably won't need the plant food ... but it probably wouldn't hurt, maybe would delay flowering because of the nitrogen ... I'd say skip the food.

Good luck.

From: Kristeen Bullwinkle <bullwin.res.mpls.frb.fed.us>

> You're in for a pleasant surprise, Michelle, because pineapple sage is a wonderfully hardy plant.

It's not hardy in Minnesota. I'm lucky if mine will bloom each year. I still grow it because of the wonderful scent and I like it as a tea herb.