🌱 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
- Common thyme (also organic )
📘 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.
