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If you do start your seedlings indoors, you will still want to transplant them out into the garden after your frost date.
For spacing, you should keep your plants about 12 inches apart. At maturity, your oregano will be approximately a foot to a foot and a half tall, and 18 inches across. Vigorous harvesting will keep the plants smaller. Plant your seeds under a shallow covering of soil because they need light in order to germinate.Apply Blessings Blends OMRI-Listed Premium Compost (.5 – .5 – .4) for best results.
Oregano is a perennial, so choose your location to last for a few years. The plants don’t last forever though, and you will only get a harvest for 3 to 5 years from each plant before they get very woody. Letting one or two plants go freely to seed each year can help keep your oregano patch stay renewed each season. If your plants go naturally to seed, plan to do a little thinning the next spring as you will end up with more plants than you probably need.
