pruning and cooking

[Guest guest]

Hello,

 

I've had my n. oleander plant a month or so now, long enough to watch it

grow. Am ready to prune and cook.

 

While it's 3 feet tall with maybe 18 branches, only if I trimmed them

all back to 6 inches would I have enough leaves for a stock pot/dutch

oven full (1to 1.5 gallons). In addition, every branch always has dozens

of flowers ... its quite lovely. I need to do this soon because the

plant needs to adjust to the pruning before the weather changes. Indiana

is not tropical except in the summer; it'll have to become a house plant

in a couple of months with much less sun/water/heat.

 

Should I prune 2-3 long branches at a time every few weeks, cutting them

up to make several small batches of soup?

 

OR do it all at once?

 

OR half? or?

 

Shall I cut the flowers off before putting the stems and leaves in the pot?

 

Blessedly the plant and the seasons, not my health, is the urgency.

 

Thanks much, Saralou

[Guest guest]

Oleander seems to snap back pretty quickly after pruning. However

much you clip and make, simply go by the instructions of putting

enough water in the pot to barely cover the cuttings and then boiling

and condensing to the proper percentage, straining and boiling again,

careful and plentiful filtering, etc. You can use the flowers as well

as the leaves and smaller branches. A small batch goes a long way.

 

 

 

 

oleander soup , RoseOtto <RoseOttoGroups wrote:

>

> Hello,

>

> I've had my n. oleander plant a month or so now, long enough to

watch it

> grow. Am ready to prune and cook.

>

> While it's 3 feet tall with maybe 18 branches, only if I trimmed them

> all back to 6 inches would I have enough leaves for a stock pot/dutch

> oven full (1to 1.5 gallons). In addition, every branch always has

dozens

> of flowers ... its quite lovely. I need to do this soon because the

> plant needs to adjust to the pruning before the weather changes.

Indiana

> is not tropical except in the summer; it'll have to become a house

plant

> in a couple of months with much less sun/water/heat.

>

> Should I prune 2-3 long branches at a time every few weeks, cutting

them

> up to make several small batches of soup?

>

> OR do it all at once?

>

> OR half? or?

>

> Shall I cut the flowers off before putting the stems and leaves in

the pot?

>

> Blessedly the plant and the seasons, not my health, is the urgency.

>

> Thanks much, Saralou

>