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1 – Prepare Your Seed Paper For Planting
For best results plant your seed paper from March-April or late September in preparation for the following Spring.
While you can plant the whole seed paper, it’s much more effective to tear your seed paper into smaller pieces in preparation for planting, because there are dozens of seeds of herbs inside. Next, you’ll need to find some suitable pots to plant your seed paper pieces. Try to find a sunny spot that’s protected from strong wind for the best results.
2-Choose Your Growing Medium
Seeds and eventually herbs need nutrients to grow and thrive.
If you’re using a receptacle fill your pot with either soil or compost (peat-free is preferable), don’t pack it too tightly, and place it aside for the next step. If you’re planting in late spring and straight to a wild area, take some time to aerate the soil before you begin to plant your seed paper.
3- Plant Your Seed Paper
Place your seed paper pieces in your pots under a thin layer of soil.
Cover under about 1-2 mm of soil or compost and make sure not to pack the soil too tightly. Water generously (without waterlogging) daily and wait for small shoots to emerge before reducing your watering to twice a week.
4- Watch Your Herbs Grow & Thrive
Be patient and you will see your plantable paper sprout.
The seeds from your plantable paper will sprout massively after a few weeks or a little more. After about two or three weeks more, you‘ll have to separate and transplant them as you wish in larger pots or wherever you prefer in your garden.
Herbs are elegant, useful, and low-maintenance perennial plants, providing a fine display that can be enjoyed for years in your garden.
Oregano
Greek Oregano is the most flavorsome and without a doubt one of the best herbs in the world. Oregano grows practically everywhere in Greece and whether fresh or dried, it adds beneficial properties along with its characteristic fragrance and flavors to many dishes. Most herb lovers agree that mountain Greek Oregano is the most flavorful, and arguably the best oregano in the world. A member of the mint family, Greek Oregano is a robust and distinctive herb used in sauces and marinades since ancient times. Its leaves contain more oil glands than ordinary oregano giving it the potent and pungent flavor of the Mediterranean.
Thyme
Thyme, is native herb to southern Europe and Mediterranean regions. The word (Thyme), stems from the Greek verb “thyo” meaning to offer incense or sacrifice. This herb is symbolic of courage and activity and was used widely by the ancients to treat hookworm. In ancient Greek times, thyme was a symbol of graceful elegance. Thyme has been used in Greece in both food and medicine since ancient times. Thyme has a specific action on the respiratory system and is commonly used for complaints such as coughs and asthma. It can also help relieve congestion and is used for sinus congestion and pain.
Sage
Sage is a perennial herb grown in regions all over the world and used for its culinary and medicinal properties. Despite its global cultivation, the Greek Sage with its intense aromatic flavor and medicinal value it is simply unique. Greek sage is an evergreen shrub whose height and width ranges from 60cm to 1m. Its leaves, wide and flat, grow in abundance and form clusters that give the plant a bushy appearance.
Thrompus
The thrombus (Satureja thymbra) is a native plant that is found throughout Greece. Its name comes from the ancient Greek city of Thymbra, which was located near Troy. The plant is mentioned by Theophrastus and Dioscorides and was very useful in Ancient Greece as it was used as a medicine for bee stings, flavored sauces with it and used vinegar with thrombi as a spice. It is also known as throumbi, thrombus, saturegia, tragoriganos, elder grass and it belongs to the mint family. Its flowers are white-purple , its leaves are dark green and its trunk is woody.
