Multiply rosemary: It's very easy with these step-by-step instructions
Created: 01/19/2022, 15:47
By: Janine Napirca
Do you also like to season with rosemary?
You can easily grow it yourself with these step-by-step instructions.
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Rosemary is a very popular spice in the kitchen.
You can easily cultivate it yourself with this step-by-step guide.
Rosemary is particularly popular in the kitchen.
A good
herb garden
* is therefore hard to imagine without the plant*.
Do you already have a vigorous mother plant and want to propagate your rosemary?
Basically, if you follow the instructions step by step, nothing can go wrong.
Because
rosemary is very robust
and relatively easy to cultivate.
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How to propagate rosemary
The subshrub rosemary, also called Salvia rosmarinus or Rosmarinus officinalis, can
best be propagated with the help of rosemary cuttings
.
Since you should regularly shape your rosemary plant by cutting it, propagation by cuttings is not a problem. Alternatively, you could also propagate rosemary by sowing, but this is not quite as easy and far less promising than the cuttings method.
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Step-by-step instructions on how to easily propagate rosemary from cuttings
Use
garden shears
to cut off shoots about ten centimeters long from the mother plant.
It is best to position the pruning shears just above the woody parts of the rosemary so that the rosemary cuttings are hard enough and do not threaten to rot.
Because cuttings that are too soft do not form roots and die.
Then you should remove the bottom leaves of the cuttings and trim the cutting point with a
sharp knife
, leaving a length of about six to eight centimeters.
The prepared cuttings should be planted in the soil up to the base of the leaves without the soil covering the leaves.
Use
soil that is as poor in nutrients as possible for sowing or herbs
so that the rosemary cuttings can develop many roots and a large, vigorous plant can grow back.
Gently press the cuttings and water them a little.
For example, make
a transparent cover out of
cling film .
With small, thin
wooden sticks
you can build a house for your rosemary cultivation.
The soil should be kept slightly moist.
Remember to regularly lift the rosemary house, which should be in a bright location - but not in the blazing sun - to air it.
After about
four to six weeks
, when the rosemary cuttings have sprouted and are well rooted, the cling film house can be removed.
Since rosemary plants should
only be planted in the garden after two to three years
, repot the young plant and leave it protected, for example on the windowsill.
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When is the best time to propagate rosemary?
If you decide to use the
sowing method
, the seeds of the rosemary herbs must be sown
in mid-March at temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius
.
Only then will the rosemary seeds germinate and only after at least four weeks of germination.
In addition, the seeds of rosemary usually sprout very irregularly.
If you have decided to propagate rosemary with the help of
rosemary cuttings
, the best time is in
early summer
.
After the flowering period, you should trim your rosemary bush anyway, so that this time is ideal for propagating rosemary with cuttings.
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