Featured Recipes: • Herbed Butter Balls Gardening Tips: A Pot of Sage We like to grow lots of sage each year. Since the plants can get woody with age, it's important to grow fresh young ones from seed so that there are always some to bring indoors. Few herbs are as versatile for winter use. We love to make a sage and butter sauce for pasta. Creamy alfredo sauces also taste great with a few sage leaves chopped and added to it. And what could be better than a roast chicken, with sage leaves stuffed between the skin and the meat, to infuse the meat with flavor? Besides all that, the plants look pretty on the windowsill with their shimmering, gray-green foliage. TLC for Sage It’s not hard to keep a sage plant healthy all winter indoors if it’s young and not too woody, and if it’s potted in nice light soil mix. But keep the leaves clean by rinsing them. They’re fuzzy, and apt to pick up dust.