Herb / Warm season
Greek Oregano
Permanent herb containers, dry edges, and pollinator blooms if allowed to flower.
Sharp, savory oregano for Mediterranean cooking.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 90
- Germination temperature
- 60-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.125 inches
- Spacing
- 12 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Start indoors
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 8 weeks before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Start indoors, harden off, then transplant into the final bed when local timing is safe.
- How much space?
- 12 inches in-row spacing, 18 inches between rows, and 0.125 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Wet soil and heavy fertilizer reduce plant quality. Low to moderate water after establishment. Lean, well-drained soil.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Low to moderate water after establishment.
- Soil
- Lean, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Wet soil and heavy fertilizer reduce plant quality.
- herb
- perennial
- dry-soil
- pollinators
Browse context
- Herb Catalog Category collection
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