[brianshaw]

I've never had fresh bay leaves to experiment with... but I've frozen ****** Lime leaves and that worked out okay. I cant tell the diff between fresh and frozen, but I may not be a highly discriminating user. I imagine you'd have the same success with bay. I'm jealous, BTW, I keep thinking about growing a bay tree/bush but never got around to seeing if it is even feasible where I live.

 

[brianshaw]

Will be checking out the local nursery. Apparently the will grow even in the hot part of LA where I live. Water, that's all it will take!

 

[brianshaw]

Not even water (other than whatever water it can find on its own). I live in NoHo, which is pretty darn hot. I never water my bay leaf tree, there are no sprinklers anywhere near it, and it's thriving.

That's great to hear! I'm thinking about pot cultivation. Mostly to control size. Do you think that is a wise idea?

 

[brianshaw]

That could be. At least in our part of LA we aren't stealing CO River water!

 

[brianshaw]

Is it a 1:1 substitution when using fresh rather than dried?