Thyme
Type: Perennial
Description: Small oval-like leaves
When to plant: Before the last spring frost
Level of difficulty: 3
How to plant: If you like italian food, maybe thyme should be in your kitchen!
Tips/Facts/Uses:
Description: Small oval-like leaves
When to plant: Before the last spring frost
Level of difficulty: 3
How to plant: If you like italian food, maybe thyme should be in your kitchen!
- Start by preparing your starting pot or seed tray.
- Sprinkle the thyme seeds (or carefully place them where ever you want if that’ds your thing) over the soil and sprinkle them LIGHTLY with another layer of soil. We need them to be shallowly buried.
- Mist until the soil is very moist and then cover with plastic wrap, if you wish, poke tiny holes with a toothpick for ventillation.
- Put the pot/tray in a warm location. Thyme should sprout in about 1 to 12 weeks.
- When the thyme reaches about two to five inches, transfer them to a pot. Maybe a big pot with a couple of thyme plants because thyme gets bushy.
- You can leave them on a windowsill to catch light or outside. Either way is fine. Set it outside after the last fall frost and then light pruning (after a year of it growing) after the last spring frost.
- When thyme is ready, pinch off leaves or prune off branching stems by half way.
- If leaving outside for winter, mulch heavily.
Tips/Facts/Uses:
- In zone 10 (Florida), thyme is an annual.
- Thyme oil can be used in perfume or soap making.