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Sowing thyme - quick start guide

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🌱 Sowing & planting

  • Sowing depth: 0.1 cm
  • Sowing distance: Sow in pots of your choice and sow the seeds 1 cm apart
  • Germination: 21°C / 7 to 14 days
  • Planting distance: 10 cm around the plant; can also be grown in a pot or square meter garden
  • Planting out: When the plants are 5 to 10 cm tall
  • Growth cycle: 130 days

📅 Growing times throughout the year

  • General: Sow in a seed tray or on a seedbed, prick out once and then plant out.
  • Sow indoors: Sow from March to May; harvest from June to October.
  • In situ: Sow from May to July; harvest from September to October.

Start cultivation (sowing)
Harvesting

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🏠 Sow indoors




🪏 On site (outside)







🏠 Inside
🪟 Greenhouse / conservatory
🪏 Outside

🌿 Popular breeds

📘 Basic information

  • Crop group: Herbs
  • Crop family: Lipaceae family
  • Height: 30 cm
  • Growth cycle: 130 days
  • Frost resistant: Yes
  • Root depth: 15 to 25 cm
  • Preferred soil: pH 6.0–7.0, sand
  • Fertilization: Little

🌞💧 Pitch & water

  • Location: 🌞 Lots of sun
  • Water requirement: 💧 Little water

🤝 Good & Bad Neighbors

Good neighbors

  • Coal
  • Eggplants
  • Salad
  • Potatoes
  • Strawberries
  • Lavender

Bad neighbors

  • No known bad neighbors

❗ Dangers & Concerns

  • Problem: Too much water.

🧺 Harvesting & storing

Cut the stems with scissors.

Harvest the leaves by using your hand to peel the leaves from the stems from top to bottom.

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