WSing Thyme, Sage or Rosemary

Anyone been successfull WSing Thyme, Sage or Rosemary? Do they germinate and transplant well?

I was hoping to see an answer to your question.
I grow many herbs but have only purchased plants of the above .
Maybe if you ask the question on the Herb forum someone there might know.
When I don't know about a seed I plant half and save half in case it fails.

Well, I plan to WS thyme and sage today so will report back about success or failure.

(Thymus vulgaris and Salvia officinalis -- just basic stuff, nothing fancy. ;-) )

I did read somewhere rosemary is not easy to grow from seed, so not trying that just yet.

Well, I'm going to try WSing thyme and sage too. I can always propagate the Rosemary from cuttings- I have a three foot tall bush in my side yard.

I've done lavendar with great success, but not those.

I tried rosemary from commercial seeds. It produced few sprouts and by summer's end they were so small they were hardly visible. I'm just going to buy a small transplant again this year.

Karen

Thanks for your comments- I think I'll just try one jug with rosemary and see what happens, but I'll still do some from cuttings too.

I Winter Sowed both Common Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) and Creeping Thyme (Thymus serphyllum) . I had great germination rates for both. They both were "carpet of seedling" containers...did I sow too heavily? Me?? Never! The picture below shows my Common Thyme container.

- Brent

Oh, beautiful! Was that last year? Or this? What month did you sow?

I have not seen my thyme sproutlets yet........

No...not this year...I guess my post is not clear on that. The date on the picture is April 18, 2007. Right now I have been figuring out what I want to sow this year so I do not have any containers out yet...I still have lots of plants in pots from last year!

Edit to add...sown on 3/9/2007...first sprouts noted on 3/30/2007...so the picture above was about a month after they were sown.

- Brent

This message was edited Feb 19, 2009 7:59 PM

Thanks Brent, I am glad it is not this year as I would feel mine were late to sprout, LOL! I confess I did not think to look at the date stamp, could've answered my own question there........

Kyla

Brent: Do you still pot up all your seedlings before planting out into beds?

Karen

I do generally transplant my seedling to small pots and let them grow there for a while before they go in the ground. It adds a bit of work and cost (for potting soil) to the process but it works for me.

- Brent

I started some rosemary (indoors under lights) on Jan 24. It was an open packaged from 2006/2007. Most germinated. I used 1/2 seed starter mix and 1/2 cactus mix. Also only water when dry. They are still germinating with 3 tiny little one that popped up a couple of days ago. In total 19 germinated. No heat mat. Cooler temps. 60ºF to 70ºF

I did some rosemary seeds yesterday and satuck them out with the rest of my stuff. Did Pasley, sage rosemary & thyme... LOL and basil, cilantro, chives and Tai basil. I have not done any herbs from seed before. Hope I get some of them to germinate!

I just sowed some rosemary today, but thought I would try germinating on a heat mat indoors. I also heard it was hard to grow from seed, but somehow I must have bought them, so I am going to try anyway. Let you know what happens...
RatherB

I just WSed some Rosemary and Thyme seeds yesterday. They are out in the snow, so we'll see if they grow.

I put some Rosemary seeds out for winter sowing and some in my little indoor green house. I'll see what happens with them as well. :)