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- Sowing St. John's Wort: Facts to Know!
- Sow in spring or midsummer
- Put the seeds in the ground
- Plant out the preferred young plants to the right location
- Seeds from own harvest or bought
- Tips
St. John's wort should not be sown too late for it to flower in the same year
Sowing St. John's Wort: Facts to Know!
Sowing is the propagation method of St. John's wort. While the cuttings propagation and division do not work for all species, sowing always works!
Sow in spring or midsummer
As with most other herbs, St. John's wort should be sown in spring. Ideal for a preculture is the period between March and April. Direct sowing should best be done from May onwards.
If you have completely forgotten the sowing in the spring, you can sow the seeds even in midsummer in the bed (a preculture home is then no longer useful). But watch out: then St. John's wort will bloom only next year.
Put the seeds in the ground
If the timing is right, let's go! The seeds are tiny and are sown as follows:
Plant out the preferred young plants to the right location
Once the seeds have germinated and the plantlets have grown at least 5 and no more than 10 cm tall, they can be planted out. A good time for this is mid-April. Like to enrich the soil at the site with some compost.
On it one should place value when planting out:
Seeds from own harvest or bought
You can harvest the seeds for sowing St. John's wort yourself from existing plants. Seeds usually mature in late summer to fall. Just harvest the berry-like fruits and remove the seeds! However, you can also get the seeds in the garden center or hardware store today.
Tips
If the soil is too sour at the site, you can simply mix it with ground egg shells. The egg shells give the St. John's wort a lot of lime and alkalize the substrate a little.