Roasted Potatoes With Rosemary

I have two flower beds in my back yard that surround the base of a tree. Stacked rocks forms the walls, which are about 12 inches deep. In one of these flower beds I have a small rosemary plant that was a cutting from Dona's rosemary bush.

As a general rule of thumb, rosemary loves to grow in Texas. Most people I know with rosemary bushes are overwhelmed within a year or two. Not so with mine. Most of the problem is a lack of direct sun light.

After three years my rosemary bush was only about the size of two gallons of milk. As I wanted it to surround the entire tree I started taking cuttings and reseeding them last year. I now have four small rosemary bushes, all healthy and growing.

Several months ago I gave Will some potatoes that had gone to seed and told him he could plant them outside if he wanted to. He planted them in my rosemary flowerbed. I didn't worry about it, I expected they would die from neglect.

Not so. The potato bushes are larger than my rosemary and seem quite happy. The other day I was out watering and I kind of smiled thinking that all I really needed was some oil and a really hot day and I'd have roasted potatoes with rosemary - my favorite.

Then a laugh broke out.

Not an hour before I had sprayed the plants down with a solution of 99% water/1% canola oil for bugs.

Just need a nice hot day now.