Experience growing herbs from seed?

buttaflie143 Wed May 18, 2011 11:30 am

Anyone have any experience growing herbs from seed? I planted chives, rosemary, thyme, and cilantro from seed and I am wondering appox. how long it takes for them to germinate? These were planted in the box the rascal got in to and I am trying to decide if I should replant...

boog1 Wed May 18, 2011 11:48 am

alot depends on soil tempature alot of the stuff in my table top took fer ever but its finaly crackin the surface

boog

buttaflie143 Wed May 18, 2011 12:06 pm

boog1 wrote:alot depends on soil tempature alot of the stuff in my table top took fer ever but its finaly crackin the surface

boog

Forever...1, 2, 3 weeks?

quiltbea Wed May 18, 2011 12:49 pm

Your chives and cilantro about 7-14 days.
Parsley takes the longest, 21 days.
The others I can't say. Haven't started them from seeds.

The colder the soil when the seeds are sown, the longer it takes so if its been cold nites, they may be slow. They also need to be kept moist all the time they are germinating so don't let them dry out.

boog1 Wed May 18, 2011 2:34 pm

radish's, carrots, beets, swiss chard, kale, all took over 2 weeks to come up.

**walshevak** Wed May 18, 2011 3:51 pm

Last winter after the first frost, I threw some of the seed from my basil plant into the pot rather than in the trash. It came up about 4 weeks ago.

Did the same with some dill seed and it came up about 6 weeks ago. Got hit by a frost and the first ones died, but a week after the frost more came up.

They know their time and come up accordingly I guess.

Kay

GreenBlueberry Wed May 18, 2011 4:16 pm

If it's been 2 weeks, I would just replant. Worst case: you have to thin additional seedlings.
I did this after my first carrot planting. Nothing happened after 2 weeks, and I replanted and now they are up. I think a hard rain washed the first seeds away.

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