planted thyme -- world's tiniest seeds!

[wsmoak]

I bought a collection of herbs from Park Seed for this year's garden and opened the thyme packet the other day. Inside the foil packet was a little cellophane envelope of the tiniest seeds I've ever seen!

So I prepared a little square pot and carefully sprinkled a few seeds, which promptly disappeared, being the same color as the potting soil.

A few days later, I have tiny thyme seedlings! There's no way this would work outdoors in plain old dirt. Even if I tilled it first, the weed seedlings wouldn't give these guys a chance.

So if I'm reading this right, if I can manage to keep it alive, the thyme should be a perennial like my rosemary? (That survived the winter and is quite happy out in the garden, but it came in a 3" pot, not from seed.)

-Wendy

 

[Ridgerunner]

Yes, thyme is a perennial and should come back once it gets established. I like it. It is not as invasive as oregano but is very hardy and dependable.

 

[RustyDHart]

It's also easier..once you're plants are established...to take cuttings from them and start new plants. I have 3 varieties of time and do cuttings every year.

 

[hoodat]

A lot of the herbs have tiny seeds. You usually have to just sprinkle seeds like that on the surface and keep them moist. It's all to easy to cover them so deep they never make it into the light.

 

[wsmoak]

It lived! I moved it to the greenhouse to start hardening off, and now it's out in the garden spending a couple of days under the shade of a squash plant. I pulled it out to snap a picture:

-Wendy

 

[lesa]

Looks great!!

 

[journey11]

That's one thing I forgot to get this year...thyme! Yours looks great. It will make a nice spread in no time.

 

[hoodat]

Looks as though it's off and running. Thyme is a very tough plant once it's established.

 

[vfem]

 

[nachoqtpie]

That is so awesome!!

I'm wanting to get some herbs to start in pots and basically keep them inside in pots on my kitchen bar!

Is that even doable?