When and how to plant aromatic plants

Plant your aromatic plants

Who does not have aromatic plants at home or in the garden? They are little plants that, due to their small size and easy cultivation, are a pleasure to have. So much so, that surely you are considering buying some seeds and getting, in this way, new specimens, right?

Well, if so, prepare the pots and the substrate, and I will tell you when and how to plant aromatic plants so you can expand your collection.

When are aromatic plants planted?

Aromatic plants are herbaceous that generally do not like hard frosts. In order to grow, they need mild temperatures, especially when young, as that is when they are weakest and most vulnerable. Because, When you want to sow seeds, the ideal is to wait for spring to arrive, or at the latest, early summer.

Now, yes, you can also sow them in winter if you have an electric germinator, or at home you have a source that gives off heat 24 hours a day (such as the router for example).

How are its seeds sown?

To sow the seeds you will only need a seedbed, which can be, as we said before, a pot, or yogurt glasses, plastic bottles, planters or milk containers, universal substrate for plants and, of course, a small watering can with water. rain or no lime. You got it? If so, you just have to follow this step by step:

  1. First, fill the seedbed with substrate, completely. In the case that you use containers of edible products, such as yogurt glasses, clean them beforehand with water and make a hole in the base to facilitate the drainage of the same.
  2. Then, place the seeds on the surface of the substrate. It is important not to put too many in the same seedbed, because doing so would not grow well. Thus, the ideal is to sow a maximum of 4 in a 10,5cm diameter pot.
  3. Next, cover them with a thin layer of substrate and water.
  4. Finally, insert a label with the name of the plant and the sowing date, and place the seedbed in a very bright area.

Basil, an aromatic plant

After 7-14 days the first seedlings will germinate .

When and how to plant aromatic plants

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