Bogorodskaya herb (thyme) in your garden

Do you like to drink tea with thyme (thyme)? If you like, it's time to grow this grass at his dacha. Other Her name Bogorodskaya grass. The people still called the spoons, verest, chebarka. Thyme from Greek means "spices" or "strength of mind" from Latin. Officially known as creeping thyme from seeds. Lamiaceae. The birthplace of this herb is North Africa.

types of thyme

The structure of this kind includes several hundred species. There are lemon thyme, thyme has even there and ornamental varieties. For medicinal purposes the creeping thyme.

Beneficial features

Having disinfectant properties. In the old days obkladyvali cradle baby thyme, that he was not ill. Besides the smell of thyme frightened of different insects, including bedbugs. Scientists have shown that thyme has healing properties. It contains special substances, one of them thymol which has antiseptic and antibacterial action. He is able to even kill the tuberculosis pathogen. At home, they treat throat, respiratory tract. Brewed and caress. Cough syrup "Pertusin" is made on the basis of extracts of thyme. It recommends the use neuralgia, neurosis, sore stomach (enterocolitis, goiter, intestinal cramping and bloating). Used as a spice added to the second dish.

How to grow and care

It photophilous plant, so plant them in the illuminated areas. In the open ground are planted from mid-May to the end of the month. It can be sown seedlings in March, but will need the lights, otherwise the shoots elongated. Earth fertilized rotted compost.

You can not bury the seeds when sown, otherwise they will not be included. You just need to sprinkle on the wet ground seeds are mixed with sand (1 to 10). Pour and then cover with a transparent film or a plastic box of the condensate to the seed swollen and germinated faster. Secure film or a box with a heavy object that is not in the wind flew.

Flowering thyme in the second year after planting the seeds, but the inflorescence gives a whole summer.Also propagated by cuttings, dividing the bush.

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