How to grow... Oregano

Rocket Growing Guides

Fancy a pizza? A sprinkle fresh oregano will make all the difference! It’s easy to grow, you just need to give it a nice sunny spot.

How to Plant Oregano

Oregano is surprisingly easy-going, so as long as it has a good dose of sunshine each day it will grow very well. They’ll even tolerate some light shade.
Plant 30cm apart
They will do well in the ground or in pots.

Keep the plants watered during dry spells
The plants will produce lots of leaves in early spring, followed by beautiful display of small flowers in summer. You can cut them back just before flowering for another flurry of leaves, or allow them to flower and cut them back when the flowers start to form seed heads. Oregano will self-seed vigorously so don’t allow seeds to form if you want to keep them under control!
At the end of the autumn they will naturally die back – this is a good time to remove all the woody old growth – simply cut it back to just above ground level. New leaves will come through in early spring.

Your baby plants will arrive carefully packed in cardboard. They may look a little tired from their travels. This is quite normal but, as soon as possible, carefully unpack them all.
Then, stand them upright.
The roots may be dry, so give them all a good drink of water by submerging the roots for a few minutes in a container of clean water.
Now they are ready to plant.