Just had something start eating my sage, also. Was looking pretty good until a couple days ago. I had something eating up my young bean leaves about a month and a half ago, and had somebody say to put a jar in the ground with 1/2" of beer in it. I think it worked - trapped rolly pollies, a couple caterpillars, and earwigs (not sure if they were actually trapped, but many in there whenever I looked.) Might have also been a squirrel that ate the leaves, and I think the pooch scared him away in a week. But in either case, the plants recovered and nothing eating them now. So I'll put a pint ball jar in the raised bed also, to see if that helps - with 1/2" of beer in it. I also put chicken wire over the top so the pooch doesn't get into it. My sage has a fuzzy texture, so I thought that might keep the caterpillars off it, but maybe not.

Babka, I don't know why, but I just hadn't thought about removing the green eyes. I guess I was thinking the eyes were immature and would develop their coloring later on. So you are thinking I should just cut them off without disturbing the roots? That does sound like a good idea. Irawon, I agree with you that at this stage it is still not 100 percent conclusive whether this is a Golden Meadows. I think next year will be the big year and will remove any doubt once and for all! Madplanter1, are you suggesting I remove the two eyes with their roots? It is getting quite hot outdoors now. Would you suggest I wait until August to separate? What do you think of just cutting off the blues? Last year my potted Great Expectations grew a blue eye. Because of its size, there was no way I could remove the one eye and the roots too. So I just ripped the blue out as far down as I could. This year the blue did not reappear. Maybe cutting/ripping the blue out on this GM (I am being positive on the ID!) would be the way to go. And, by the way Irawon, regarding my GE, it was mentioned on another thread that you may like to get in touch with me to ask specific information about how I grew GE in a pot. Just email me, if you like, and I will try to help. That goes for anyone . . . anytime.

good morning sweetannie, yes, it does sound like paradise to me too - and I would be honored if I were your neighbor to come over and work for free and learn all I could Sigh, that is not to be. You know what is said about Paradise; "they took paradise and put up a parking lot." Of course your neighbors have a right to manage their property, but there may be regulations in your area on impact to surrounding land, check into that. I bought my little semi-rural plot in a teeny-tiny town a year and a half ago. It is sloped, and right at the highest edge are 4 evergreens. They are planted too close to each other... but they were mine, I wouldn't dream of cutting down 4 mature trees unless there were a pressing and logical reason. Well, two had quite a few brown tips and within a year ALL FOUR were dead as the proverbial doornail. I had an expert in to look at them, no - not borers - somebody has poisoned them. He said "someone has poisoned them, likely with copper." I look to the houses on higher ground and try to figure who may have wanted them gone, and who should PAY FOR THEIR REMOVAL, and there are no answers. I've tried posting them as free wood on CraigsList, posted on local bulletin boards, called tree services, etc. I haven't even 1/100th of the land you have, but as I said - it's MINE and I love it desperately already. I have my tiny meadow out back which slopes from my four huge dead brown trees gently down to the house. I've seeded with Crimson Clover, cone flower, and fifteen other wildflowers and I'd seeing tiny results. The neighbors, of course, seem to hate it. They were used to parking two cars on the top edge of it. Pfui. The only one who actually said anything is the house directly across the alley from me. Four dead trees stand between he and I. Ever since he (lightly) complained I have looked at him and wondered, how much did four tall trees and a neglected patch of meadow annoy him? Hmmm? GH-

My sick looking Snow Hill Meadow Sage are planted in Southern Minnesota. I dug one healthy one up, divided it, cut off the tops and the bottom remains green---hopefully these will grow- the one that turned brown--looked completely dead so I yanked it out---not sure why it died. --Thanks