Many gardeners seek to plant medicinal herbs - creeping thyme. This is an absolutely unpretentious plant, it tolerates severe frosts and drought. Grow thyme, planting and care of which is quite simple, can be on any site. The soil is prepared in the same way as for many other plants. The best yields of healing thyme can be obtained by planting a plant in a well-lit area, where cold air flows do not fall.
Planting thyme
This plant quickly develops on loose
fertile soil without weeds. If you choose thyme as a houseplant, planting and care will not cause much trouble. It is quite difficult to grow seedlings at home, so it’s easier to buy ready-made flowers in a specialized store or nursery. Small seeds germinate for a long time - almost a month, and in the first year the plant develops extremely slowly. If seedlings are sown in the garden, the seedlings will easily be lost among the weed grass. If you chose the sowing of seeds, the best time for this would be early spring or late autumn, under the snow. They are buried to a depth of about 0.5 cm. With a limited amount, sowing is carried out in the pots or pots of the house, and grown seedlings with the onset of heat are planted in open ground. If you
grow thyme in this way
, planting and care do not differ from the method of cultivation directly in the open ground.
How does thyme grow?
Thyme grows well at home, on a windowsill in a cool room with adequate lighting. Propagate it
can be vegetatively - by disuniting the bush. In the spring it is divided into separate shoots, each of which must have roots. Prepared seedlings should be planted in moist soil to a depth of 5 cm. In an adult thyme bush, the lower branches spread on the ground, they can be separated throughout the growing season and planted in a separate pot or small nursery for growing. Some creeping thyme varieties are easily propagated by cuttings about 5 cm long. In the spring, such branches are rooted in greenhouses. If you plant thyme in this way, planting and care are provided for it, as well as for an adult plant. It is important to prevent waterlogging of the soil so that the cuttings do not rot. Rooting occurs after 3 weeks,
the survival rate is almost 100%. The annual branches of creeping thyme, which managed to lignify, are suitable for cuttings.
Care for creeping thyme
If you planted creeping thyme in the garden , planting and caring for it will not be a burden to you. All work basically comes down to timely weeding from weed grass, loosening the soil between rows and periodic top dressing with mineral fertilizers. If, when transplanting seedlings, ripe compost or horn flour was introduced into the soil, top dressing for two years can be omitted. In the first few weeks, young seedlings should be slightly shaded from burning sun rays and watered on dry days. To prevent decay of the roots and shoots of thyme, they make good drainage during planting and mulch the soil with fine gravel.