2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Caraway or thyme is a popular gingerbread plant, the seeds of which are often used to decorate confectionery, used to season soups and meat dishes, and are used in conservation. Moreover, cumin is a medicinal plant. It owes much to such properties to the high content of essential oils in the seeds. How to grow this useful plant on your own plot?
Seed preparation for sowing
Thyme is cultivated as both an annual and a biennial plant. Accordingly, sowing of caraway seeds can be carried out both in spring and in autumn - in September. It is recommended to allocate shady areas for caraway seeds. The soil must be fertile. In addition, thyme is picky about moisture, and the soil for the spice beds should not be overdried.
A place for autumn crops of thyme is chosen one that was well fertilized for its predecessor. Beans, peas, beans, beets, carrots, cabbage, corn, cucumber, tomato, cabbage are good as previous crops. The seeds should be soaked beforehand. They are put in a small gauze bag, which is placed in a glass of water for two days. Standing water is regularly replaced with fresh water. You can treat the seed with a stimulant, then the processing time is reduced. On average, the seeding rate for podzimny sowing is about 1 g of seeds per 1 square meter.
Before the spring seeding in the soil, the seed is warmed up, and in the autumn months the soil is prepared for future crops. To do this, deep digging of the soil is performed, and fertilizers are applied on depleted or poor soils. For 1 sq. the area of the beds will be needed:
• at least 2 kg of humus;
• 10 g of ammonium nitrate;
• 5 g of superphosphate;
• 5 g of potassium salt.
The seeding rate of seeds for spring sowing is slightly lower than for autumn sowing - approximately 0.8 g per 1 square meter.
Sowing thyme and caring for the beds
Thyme is sown in lines, grooves for them are made at a distance of about 30-35 cm. The depth of seeding is about 3 cm on soils with a heavier composition. When the soil is of the light type, the seeds are buried by 4 cm. The beds are arranged in four or two lines, leaving a row spacing of 50 cm between them.
Thinning of thickened crops is carried out in the spring. It is performed in such a way that there is an interval of approximately 10-15 cm between the plants. If you sowed your ribbon stitches between the rows, then the distance between the plants is made larger - about 20-25 cm. This is required so that the thyme does not experience a deficit nutrition.
Seedling care necessarily includes loosening the beds and weeding from weed parasites. In the first weeks, the plant develops very slowly and it is important that the gardener does not allow the formation of a hard crust on the surface of the earth. The first loosening is done shallow. And when the thyme grows up and gets stronger, the tool is immersed in the soil deeper.
Thyme is fed twice a season. In the spring, the first mineral fertilizing of the beds is carried out. If the caraway is sown in the fall, then fertilizers are applied to the soil with the emergence of seedlings. When the sowing was postponed until spring, the plants are fed a month later from the day the seeds were immersed in open ground. For top dressing, you will need 5 g of superphosphate and ammonium nitrate per feeding area of 1 square meter.
The second time the beds will be fertilized at the end of the growing season to help the plant overwinter - when cultivated as a two-year crop, the seeds ripen in the second year. This time, ammonium nitrate is replaced with 15 g of potassium salt. Plants of the second year are fertilized again before flowering with ammonium nitrate - 15 g.
The seeds are harvested at the stage of waxy ripeness, when they acquire a brownish tint. They crumble easily if left to ripen on an umbrella, so it is recommended to ripen them in the cut.
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