Oregano, with a scientific name Origanum vulgareIt is a very popular aromatic plant for its culinary and health-beneficial properties. It is a fundamental ingredient of the Mediterranean diet, whose leaves are usually consumed dried to flavor dishes or to make infusions.
If you want to have this aromatic plant at home and learn how to take care of it to take advantage of it, join us in this Green Ecologist article about when and how to plant oregano, take care of it and dry it for consumption.
Toward late winter you can start preparing the seedbeds to sow oregano. If you want to plant directly in its final location, you will have to wait until spring, when temperatures do not drop below 19 ºC, but we recommend advancing sowing using the seedbed method. It is important that the room in which the seedbed is located maintains a stable temperature of between 19 and 22 ºC.
Follow these steps to sow seeds and then plant oregano:
It is also possible and highly recommended reproduce oregano by cuttingsas these root very easily and reproduction tends to be successful.
Now that you know how to plant oregano, both by getting the seedlings from the seeds and by cuttings, learn the basic care of the oregano plant:
Oregano is a plant that is not picky about the type of soil. Use generic substrate, and simply add a contribution of vermicompost to enrich it in organic matter. This addition of organic matter should be repeated once a year, to enrich it and prevent the soil from becoming excessively compacted.
This aromatic plant will also appreciate receiving direct sunlight for at least 4 hours a day. Put the pot or plant in a place that is as sunny as possible.
Like most plants, oregano does not like its substrate to puddle. In fact, this is very harmful to almost any plant. Water periodically, but without excess water, so that the substrate always has some moisture, but never floods.
Oregano can withstand low temperatures, but its quality as an aromatic and ingredient will be higher if it grows in hot climates.
Oregano should be harvested after the plant has flowered, so the usual is harvest oregano in early summer, which is when its leaves are most aromatic and tasty. To dry the oregano
If you like these types of plants, we recommend you learn more about the Types of aromatic plants with this guide and How to grow aromatic herbs at home with this other guide.
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