"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:47:31 -0000, "Christina Websell"
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I dried the bay leaves themselves by putting them in a metal dish on
top of
my woodburner - I now have enough for a year of soup flavouring ;-)
I never dry off bay leaves. I have a biggish standard bay and just
rip off a few fresh leaves as required. Drying does nothing for the
taste in my view.
Mine is big enough that we light it up as an outside Christmas tree,
I put twigs on the barbequeue and STILL have to prune it annually!
But it's planted in the soil.

If we go back to the hard winters we used to have here, 20-30 years
ago, I may well lose it, but it doesn't mind -10 Celsius or the soil
freezing to the depth of an inch or so.


Ok, stop showing off about your big bay tree ;-)
Let's not all get distracted by the part of my post that describes how I
dried bay leaves.
My question was: are those peppercorn like things on the stems the
seeds, and can I propagate them?
Does anyone know, has anyone tried it?

No, they are flower-buds.

--
Rusty

aw, what a pity, I was going to start a bay tree farm ;-)
Tina