French Thyme

Renee's Garden - Softly mounding plants of cascading gray-green thyme leaves are a handsome accent in every cook’s garden. Intensely aromatic thyme is indispensable in all kinds of savory dishes throughout the classic Mediterranean cuisines of France, Italy and Greece and enhances both Cajun and Creole food. Use the spicy little leaves every day to combine and blend beautifully with the flavors of lemon, garlic, basil and parsley for seasoning vegetables, seafood and poultry. Thyme is easy to freeze or dry.(Thymus vulgaris) 

Characteristics:

• Plants grow to 8-12 inches
• Tiny, green leaves grow on woody stems
• Pkt 0.25 g, ~1000 seeds

Instructions - Sow seeds indoors on surface of soil. Transplant outdoors after danger of frost has passed. After first year cut plants back each spring to renew them and keep them tidy. Plants prefer well-drained dry soil.

• Sow 6-8 weeks before the last frost
• Germination 10-20 days
• Plant 6-12 apart

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