Herb / Warm season
Common Summer Savory
Compact herb rows, container mixes, and bean-bed edges.
Peppery thyme-like leaves for beans and summer vegetables.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 60
- Germination temperature
- 60-80F
- Seed depth
- 0.125 inches
- Spacing
- 8 inches
- Row spacing
- 12 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 7 days after last frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 21 days
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?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 8 inches in-row spacing, 12 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?
- Harvest before heavy flowering for best leaf flavor. Moderate water while establishing; tolerates drier soil later. Light, well-drained soil with moderate fertility.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water while establishing; tolerates drier soil later.
- Soil
- Light, well-drained soil with moderate fertility.
- Watch
- Harvest before heavy flowering for best leaf flavor.
- herb
- annual
- containers
- warm-season
Browse context
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