How to Germinate Savory

Savory can be a welcome, attractive addition to herb garden. Choose between summer savory and winter savory. Summer savory is an annual plant, meaning it completes its full growth cycle in a single year. Winter savory plants are perennial evergreens, growing into small shrubs that generate new growth year after year. The way you germinate savory seeds depends on the variety you are sowing.

Garden spade
Compost
Garden rake
Garden hoe

Instructions

- 1
  Prepare the growing area by cultivating the soil with a garden spade down to a depth of 4 to 6 inches. Add compost to the top of the soil, especially for growing summer savory. Add 2 to 4 inches of compost for summer savory, mixing the compost and the soil well with the garden spade. Rake the soil smooth with a garden rake.
- 2
  Create rows for the savory by dragging a garden hoe along the soil surface. Space rows 12 to 15 inches apart.
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  Place savory seeds along the prepared rows, spacing them 1 or 2 inches apart. Covering the seeds with soil is not necessary. Both winter and summer savory seeds require light to germinate.
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  Moisten the soil immediately after sowing the seeds. Keep the soil evenly moist to help the seeds germinate effectively. Expect summer savory to germinate after approximately three weeks; winter savory germinates in one week or less.
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  Thin the savory seedlings when they reach a height of about 4 inches. Remove the weakest summer savory seedlings so that those remaining are spaced 6 inches apart. Remove the weakest winter savory seedlings to leave the remaining ones spaced 12 to 15 inches apart.

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