okay welcome back to barry's allotment this rosemary here is basically growing like a
weed about i reckon at least 10 years ago maybe 15. that whole corner there
had a huge and i mean huge rosemary bush and um the guy that had the plot
event he gave it up in the end and moved but at the time he was cutting it right back and
um said help yourself to as much rosemary as you want and uh i did i only took like um
a sprig it was so long ago i can't remember how much one sprig i guess and i popped it in the
ground and now fast forward 10 15 years later i've got a huge overgrown rosemary bush check it out
i planted this apple tree there so one the rosemary bush
is encroaching on the apple tree now the apple tree is getting bigger
nobody could eat that much rosemary in a season anyway but i also had an idea
one of the branches snapped off in the storms this winter and i think i'll be able to use this wood
on the barbecue to smoke meat i looked it up online to see if you could smoke meats with um
rosemary wood there's not a lot of information about it i've used oak and you can buy cherry but
not rosemary i guess it's so slow growing cost of fortune so yeah i'm going to cut that back
saw it back dry out the wood that's the plant i'll need a wood shed
cut it back so it stops encroaching on the apple tree and then dry out the wood
and later in the summer when it's dried out try smoking meats on the bbq rosemary smoked meat lamb
springs to mind but could be good with chicken not sure about pork but yeah rosemary smoked burgers
so i'm going to use a big pair of cutters and i've got this this
saw to soar up the uh the branches make them barbecue sized
let's get going
okay job done chopped it right back check this out run the mower around
it as well so you get a good look at it it's a fraction of the size it was
hopefully i've left enough enough life in it for it to grow back
yeah this is all the hot wood there that i put in the shed that's already quite dry
i'll let this dry out in the sun then the plan is to test out
rosemary wood on the bbq google searched it not a lot of information
although a few people have tried it said it worked well but that's a whole nother video
okay guys thanks for watching and you'll have to check back in for um rosemary
smoking on the barbecue that's a success or failure so i'll see you next time toodles