Rosemary is a light germ
The fine rosemary seeds should be spread under glass from mid-March or in the cold frame from mid to late April. Since, like so many herbs, rosemary is also a light germ, the seeds should only be covered very thinly with earth or simply pressed on. The germination time is about three to five weeks. You can do the following when sowing:
- Fill small seed pots with herb or lean potting soil, which you mix with sand in a ratio of 1: 1.
- The earth should be as fine as possible. To do this, you can sieve them beforehand.
- Moisten the soil with a spray bottle.
- Now spread the seeds evenly.
- To make this work better, you can also mix them with sand and only then sow them.
- Now sprinkle thinly - about twice the seed strength - fine soil over it.
- Lightly press the seeds with the help of a board or something similar.
- Put the planter in a warm and bright place.
- The temperature should be between 18 and 22 ° C.
- Keep the substrate evenly moist.
also read
- Propagate rosemary successfully
- How to grow rosemary
- Propagate rosemary from seeds
Germination can be stimulated by using gibberellic acid, a plant growth hormone.
Seeds germinate very unevenly
Rosemary seeds germinate very irregularly, you may need to be very patient. The plants are pricked out in individual pots as soon as the first real leaflets grow after the two cotyledons. However, they should not be planted out until the following year, as the young plants are still very sensitive in the first year of standing and, in any case, cannot overwinter outside. You would most likely freeze to death. The plants are placed in the bed from mid to late May - ergo after the ice saints - at a distance of approx. 30 x 40 centimeters.
Tips & Tricks
Young plants should be evenly moist - but never wet! - be kept until they have reliably taken root and are well established. However, fertilization is not necessary.
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