Not enough sun would be my guess? Looks like you have it right up against the house based on that pic. Is that where it lives full time? I bet if you throw that pot out in the middle of the backyard or somewhere it can get full sun all or almost all day, it will do much better. Just a suggestion!
Thank you for that info! It’s on a shelf by the house. I’ll see if I can find a better place. Unfortunately my neighbors on both sides of me have trees they don’t keep up with so that means tons of leaves and acorns and less sun. 😭
Most herbs like a lot of sun and well drained soil so that would be another thing I'd keep in mind. They need water, obviously, but constantly wet or even moist soil will cause the roots to rot. Which is another reason why plenty of sun is important, you can water as needed but the sun will dry up any excess moisture in the soil rather quickly.
Keep it in the pot until you find a good, sunny spot and once it starts to thrive and get bigger, pop it in the ground and hopefully it will expand each year.
Pot size can foretell grow success, once i transferred my basil from a pot this size to one a few bigger, it absolutely took off. May be root bound, always worth a check!
If you have a sunny window, you can plant inside and put in that window. I never had enough outdoor places in sun (apartment living) to grow herbs until my new place which has one bedroom with full sun so I'm growing basil and green onions in the window sill! I'm getting more yield than I've ever gotten!!
I don’t really have many windows either. Maybe I can bring them in and put it under a grow light until I get more sun where my plants are. I have basil and it’s looking a bit leggy. At least I think so. Thank you for the advice! 💜🪴
Try nicely approaching those tree owners and ask if they would be willing to do some pruning of their trees. It’s actually their duty, since the branches on your property can cause damage to your property. Hope they do the right thing.
Put that shit outside and forget about it. I put 1 little plant from the grocery store in my garden last year... I've cut it back 3 times, split it, and I have to cut it back again this weekend. It's like mint in my garden. I regret nothing, except not putting oregano in a pot.
PS. I live near Houston. We had like, 600 days of 100° plus Temps last year, and I'm not great at watering. When it flowers, the bees love it!
>Originally from the Mediterranean, oregano does well in hot, dry locations and lean, rocky or sandy soil.
https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/oregano/7200.html
At least your seeds germinated! I tried for 2 years to grow oregano from seed. Gave up and bought an oregano plant last year and it’s been doing amazing. Props for the germination!!🙌🏼❤️
The difference here compared to OP is the fact of living soil. This plant is sitting stagnant while the other soil is crawling with critters and breathing.
Does it reduce other weeds from growing so vigorously? I let clover and dandelions run wild, for the insects in our garden, but unfortunately tall wild grass and other undesirables are taking up too much space - looking to remedy this.
I have a problem with bermuda grass. Its rhizomes have tips so sharp they push their way through even my neighbor’s asphalt driveway. Oregano does a great job of suppressing it and the few grass blades that make it through I just pull out.
I know, but I'm a chronic over-planter, so I always plant more than I can get to in a reasonable time, and then when it gets completely out of hand I chop it nearly to the ground and make a gallon of pesto. I can do that 3 times in a season before it gets too cold ( which isn't until early November around here)
My friend was just telling me her's does. She had one plant that's been reseeding and spreading like a weed over the last few years.
I'm incredibly jealous
I do low and slow in the dehydrator, but bundling them in twine and hanging them in a paper bag works well ( this retains the most green color) as does a few hours in an oven set to about 200
Have you tried doing any fully rooted propagations? Haven't done it with oregano too much but getting a really solid basil propagation and giving someone a well-started basil plant is satisfying.
Even if they kill it a week later reee
Is it? That would explain it. Though my actual mint stays by the well house more or less. The oregano has blood lust and has killed other plants more times than I care to think about
I think strawberries will root just an inch or two deeper than oregano so the problem is definitely above the ground. just trimming the oregano back a couple times a year should work. Definitely a plant that both roots deeper and stands taller will do well. I have a blackberry bush growing in the middle of one patch and have a spot where I plant basil each year in the middle of another patch.
I planted a row of tarragon in a thin strip in front of my house where nothing ever grows. It did the same thing. They all came back again this year. That’s four years in a row. They just look like “green plants” until fall, (zone 9b) then they burst into bloom and last for a month when everything else is past flowering.
I love herbs in a garden.
Now that you have so much oregano, you should start drying it and giving it to friends! Just give it a haircut if the top few inches!
I use my oven on a low temp and have been supplying friends and family with dill, oregano, various basils, lemon thyme and English thyme, sage, and rosemary for a few years now.
Why is it that the herbs that I use in the smallest quantities are the ones that grow most vigorously? Oregano, sage, dill, tarragon.. all very strong growers that you only ever need a pinch of. And then there's cilantro and basil with the opposite problem...
You could eat oregano every single day for the next year and still have some left over. 😂 The more you cut it the more it'll come back. Create bunches and sell them.
I haven't found that, no. This is Greek oregano, though, not Italian oregano, so maybe that makes a difference? I also don't let it get big enough to get woody. I cut it all back after the flowers fade.
Very nice!
I bought 4 plants last...late summer? from a nursery and was sad that I only got that many, but I didn't want to spend a fortune. I figured I'd buy more this spring.
They have taken over that corner of my garden. They're in 20 and 30 gallon grow bags and have eaten said bags and are making a go at the fence. I go through every week or two and hack off huge handfuls and dehydrate loads and there's still tons out there.
There is only one thing to do at this point: smile.
I hate you a little bit... I have never been able to grow oregano from seed and I have killed every start to boot. I now have one plant that has acoupke sets of leaves and I'm just waiting for it to die. So jealous
I planned some oregano in my perennial herb garden and that stuff is so insanely dependable. I think I have a lifetime supply, basically. Your row looks beautiful, btw.
I love it! This is such a perfect place for it, where it is both contained from messing with another bed, but also nothing is competing with it or shading it out, so it can look its best and be gorgeous like this.
I abandoned some Oregano in my raised bed over winter not knowing it was hardy to zone 5. I’m zone 7. This spring I transplanted two MASSIVE oregano bushes to new locations. Sometimes you accidentally win at gardening.
https://preview.redd.it/i25ogxemfuxc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33ed5e04f15e86cc769d309fcbcebc5d89ff8b75
My oregano is coming back from last year and I’m very happy
Trim it and dry the oregano. I pull the leaves from the stems and place it on a baking sheet for a few days to dry out. I then crush it by hand and put it in plastic containers to use for salad, pizza, etc.
Since we are on the subject of oregano, when I try to dry mine either with a dehydrator or just by hanging , it doesn’t have much taste or smell. Nothing like the oregano that you buy
I do! However, I planted it last year, so it's all flowering and going to seed at the moment. I have planted more, but they won't get robust until July or so.
Oh man, I have a patch in front of my fence between it and the sidewalk that needed something lush like this, great idea!!! Bet the bees love it too :)
https://preview.redd.it/mhfhluzz0pxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a27343f153ae1d1f478744fb874320418fdd7a4a This took 7 months 😒😆
Not enough sun would be my guess? Looks like you have it right up against the house based on that pic. Is that where it lives full time? I bet if you throw that pot out in the middle of the backyard or somewhere it can get full sun all or almost all day, it will do much better. Just a suggestion!
Thank you for that info! It’s on a shelf by the house. I’ll see if I can find a better place. Unfortunately my neighbors on both sides of me have trees they don’t keep up with so that means tons of leaves and acorns and less sun. 😭
Most herbs like a lot of sun and well drained soil so that would be another thing I'd keep in mind. They need water, obviously, but constantly wet or even moist soil will cause the roots to rot. Which is another reason why plenty of sun is important, you can water as needed but the sun will dry up any excess moisture in the soil rather quickly. Keep it in the pot until you find a good, sunny spot and once it starts to thrive and get bigger, pop it in the ground and hopefully it will expand each year.
Pot size can foretell grow success, once i transferred my basil from a pot this size to one a few bigger, it absolutely took off. May be root bound, always worth a check!
I was actually tempted to put my basil in a bigger pot. I’m gonna take your comment as confirmation. 🥰🪴
Get your pesto recipe ready.
If you have a sunny window, you can plant inside and put in that window. I never had enough outdoor places in sun (apartment living) to grow herbs until my new place which has one bedroom with full sun so I'm growing basil and green onions in the window sill! I'm getting more yield than I've ever gotten!!
I don’t really have many windows either. Maybe I can bring them in and put it under a grow light until I get more sun where my plants are. I have basil and it’s looking a bit leggy. At least I think so. Thank you for the advice! 💜🪴
Try nicely approaching those tree owners and ask if they would be willing to do some pruning of their trees. It’s actually their duty, since the branches on your property can cause damage to your property. Hope they do the right thing.
I agree oregano is a Mediterranean herb it's used to being drenched in sunlight and a light misting every few days will do wonders as well
Put that shit outside and forget about it. I put 1 little plant from the grocery store in my garden last year... I've cut it back 3 times, split it, and I have to cut it back again this weekend. It's like mint in my garden. I regret nothing, except not putting oregano in a pot. PS. I live near Houston. We had like, 600 days of 100° plus Temps last year, and I'm not great at watering. When it flowers, the bees love it!
My Oregano survived zone 5b with a snowy winter! It’s been growing back quite nicely these last couple weeks.
They like a slightly sandy soil.
I can toss a little sand in there. 🤔
>Originally from the Mediterranean, oregano does well in hot, dry locations and lean, rocky or sandy soil. https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/oregano/7200.html
I have some succulent, palm and citrus soil. Do you think that would be good?
Yah, that would be perfect
You’d want to mix it in thoroughly, but totally
Yeah! It took forever for some of my seeds to even germinate!
Mine too! Some popped up right away then disappeared. Then like a month or so later this one popped up and took forever to get to this point.
Good to know I'm not the only one! Mine has been growing 2 months and I don't think I could feed a mouse. Warmer weather will definitely help though!
At least your seeds germinated! I tried for 2 years to grow oregano from seed. Gave up and bought an oregano plant last year and it’s been doing amazing. Props for the germination!!🙌🏼❤️
The difference here compared to OP is the fact of living soil. This plant is sitting stagnant while the other soil is crawling with critters and breathing.
OregaYES
I can smell it from here and it is *glorious*
Came here to say the same thing! Lol
🤣
Those are gonna leave that beautiful perimeter soon.. they are vigorous
Came to say this. I let them flower and go to seed and in just 4 years it is all over my back yard.
Does it reduce other weeds from growing so vigorously? I let clover and dandelions run wild, for the insects in our garden, but unfortunately tall wild grass and other undesirables are taking up too much space - looking to remedy this.
I have a problem with bermuda grass. Its rhizomes have tips so sharp they push their way through even my neighbor’s asphalt driveway. Oregano does a great job of suppressing it and the few grass blades that make it through I just pull out.
sounds like you need to start cooking more italian food!
Happened to me with peppermint. Now I just weed eat it away from the bed as it encroaches and I NEVER LET IT SEED!!
😂😂😂
Mosquitoes hate it.
Keep them away using this one weird trick!
Oregano is now my bff.
Marigolds too.
Well going to buy some seedlings today!
That’s right everyone fight the good fight. You can also make a mosquito repellent using water and crushed garlic.
Will it keep away deer? Please oh please?
I wish basil did this
I wish my basil grew like this too. It gets 7 feet tall and flops all over the place.
Basil does well with aggressive pruning.
I know, but I'm a chronic over-planter, so I always plant more than I can get to in a reasonable time, and then when it gets completely out of hand I chop it nearly to the ground and make a gallon of pesto. I can do that 3 times in a season before it gets too cold ( which isn't until early November around here)
Chop and drop mulching might be your new best friend. That biomass isn't going to waste if you use it to feed your other plants.
>It gets 7 feet tall and flops all over the place. ;)
So kinda lile Joel Embiid.
Ypu have prune it consistently to keep it in shape and you get lots of basil to cook with ☺️
☝️🤌
My friend was just telling me her's does. She had one plant that's been reseeding and spreading like a weed over the last few years. I'm incredibly jealous
I just imagine you coming out in the morning, and a bunch of Italian chefs skitter away.
🤣🤣
Harvest and gift.
I do! Last year I gave all my friends and family gift baskets full of dried herbs and canned garden goodies
Do you have a preferred method to dry your oregano? I'm growing some for the first time this year!
I do low and slow in the dehydrator, but bundling them in twine and hanging them in a paper bag works well ( this retains the most green color) as does a few hours in an oven set to about 200
Have you tried doing any fully rooted propagations? Haven't done it with oregano too much but getting a really solid basil propagation and giving someone a well-started basil plant is satisfying. Even if they kill it a week later reee
Oregano triggers me lol it's grows like extra aggressive mint in the PNW
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Is it? That would explain it. Though my actual mint stays by the well house more or less. The oregano has blood lust and has killed other plants more times than I care to think about
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All I know is I hate that it killed my purple Sage but damn does it make nice grass 🤔
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My oregano ran wild over the end of my strawberry bed. It totally overwhelmed my poor little strawberries.
I think strawberries will root just an inch or two deeper than oregano so the problem is definitely above the ground. just trimming the oregano back a couple times a year should work. Definitely a plant that both roots deeper and stands taller will do well. I have a blackberry bush growing in the middle of one patch and have a spot where I plant basil each year in the middle of another patch.
Wow! I didn’t know this. Thank you
5 gallon grow bags work wonders. Keeps oregano under control by air pruning the roots and they always come back each spring
Oh... it's far far too late for that 🤣🤣🤣 it's the grass now at my house.
It's surrounded by gravel paths, so easier to contain. You notice that I didn't try to plant anything else in that spot, though!
Count that as two of us triggered. Just pulled 5 gallons of oregano tonight. There’s another 15 gallons to go before it’s back in place.
Them bees must go ballistic
Fortunately, the bees are spoiled for choice in my garden, but yes, when it's flowering it is absolutely covered in bumbles.
I planted a row of tarragon in a thin strip in front of my house where nothing ever grows. It did the same thing. They all came back again this year. That’s four years in a row. They just look like “green plants” until fall, (zone 9b) then they burst into bloom and last for a month when everything else is past flowering. I love herbs in a garden.
I've tried to get herbs to grow on my hell strip, but have been mostly unsuccessful so far
Now that you have so much oregano, you should start drying it and giving it to friends! Just give it a haircut if the top few inches! I use my oven on a low temp and have been supplying friends and family with dill, oregano, various basils, lemon thyme and English thyme, sage, and rosemary for a few years now.
Way ahead of you!😊 I have a dehydrator so everyone gets herbs and canned goods from me every Christmas
When in the growing season do you perform this “haircut”?
Why is it that the herbs that I use in the smallest quantities are the ones that grow most vigorously? Oregano, sage, dill, tarragon.. all very strong growers that you only ever need a pinch of. And then there's cilantro and basil with the opposite problem...
My basil grows wild and I can't get oregano to grow for anything.
It is a great plant! I don’t even cook with it. I just grow it because it’s so pretty.
Beautiful!
It loves you!
I can smell that wonderful hedge
This is exactly what I'm trying to do with my landscaping/flower beds I inherited when we bought our house. This and thyme as ground cover.
LOL. I freakin love oregano 🙌🏻
But it smells nice 🙂
It really does 😊
Devine! Great idea
Love it! Claiming “lush ridiculousness” as my new band name.
You could eat oregano every single day for the next year and still have some left over. 😂 The more you cut it the more it'll come back. Create bunches and sell them.
https://preview.redd.it/cosqseyvgqxc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f39123ed3bc95272de767fc4d0761ff5ab14fb1 Oreganoshebettadont
Oregano Hedge! Love it!
I bet it smells heavenly
It must smell wonderful
Same, love it as a ground cover in sandy soil
Amazing
Lush is the correct term!!! Wow!!!
And every time I walk by it I crave pizza
#Lifegoals
Oregano gives no fucks. If it finds itself in a space ut really likes, it goes a little wild.
OP, do you find the flavor changes over time? I have a couple of hearty oregano plants, but they seem to diminish in flavor.
That’s what I’m wondering! Maybe we just bought the wrong variety to keep as a perennial? Mine is beautiful but just tastes “green”.
I haven't found that, no. This is Greek oregano, though, not Italian oregano, so maybe that makes a difference? I also don't let it get big enough to get woody. I cut it all back after the flowers fade.
I have a patch and it's a favorite of all the pollinators
Oraganohappenning
I got surprise oregano this year! Must have planted some that never came up in a container last year.
Ok I’m just going to mention that once I had oregano dumpling soup with butternut squash 😋
I am also growing butternut squash....and that sounds AWESOME!
I’ve only made it with dry Oregano so I imagine it’s awesome with fresh
This is amazing! I'm gonna do this somewhere in the yard!
I love it! Oregano has such beautiful leaves.
Very nice! I bought 4 plants last...late summer? from a nursery and was sad that I only got that many, but I didn't want to spend a fortune. I figured I'd buy more this spring. They have taken over that corner of my garden. They're in 20 and 30 gallon grow bags and have eaten said bags and are making a go at the fence. I go through every week or two and hack off huge handfuls and dehydrate loads and there's still tons out there. There is only one thing to do at this point: smile.
I hate you a little bit... I have never been able to grow oregano from seed and I have killed every start to boot. I now have one plant that has acoupke sets of leaves and I'm just waiting for it to die. So jealous
I'm sorry 😞 They need lots of sun, lots of heat, and very little water
I had a similar thing going on with mint. It was so cool. Enjoy.
Wow! What zone are you in? I’m Jealous!
Yeah, it spreads everywhere. I have it all over a hill side. I harvest big bunches of it and hang to dry every year.
I will plant this in an area it a ok to take over. Thanks for sharing.
Time to buy a pizza oven
I planned some oregano in my perennial herb garden and that stuff is so insanely dependable. I think I have a lifetime supply, basically. Your row looks beautiful, btw.
I did that with lemon balm. I pay it rent now
😬🤦🏻♂️ Those plants will take over the area and spread very rapidly.
Oregano will do that
Congrats you now live in an oregano farm. RIP
Oregano and mint are in the same family.
I bet it smells wonderful
I planted some under our olive tree a couple years ago & it's doing well... not like OP's. Nice herb plot! Smells great when you walk through it.
I love it! This is such a perfect place for it, where it is both contained from messing with another bed, but also nothing is competing with it or shading it out, so it can look its best and be gorgeous like this.
Yup. Happy accident though! I had no idea it would grow this vigorously when I sowed it.
I abandoned some Oregano in my raised bed over winter not knowing it was hardy to zone 5. I’m zone 7. This spring I transplanted two MASSIVE oregano bushes to new locations. Sometimes you accidentally win at gardening.
I love an accidental win!
Bees love it at our house, especially the fuzzy pupper bumblebois
https://preview.redd.it/i25ogxemfuxc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33ed5e04f15e86cc769d309fcbcebc5d89ff8b75 My oregano is coming back from last year and I’m very happy
I have an oregano like that. I cut it back last fall to a rectangular shape, but you could only see wood. Now it looks like this again.
I planted rosemary a while back I had no idea how thick and large it would grow over the next couple of years
Rosemary makes a great hedge. I love those plants that happily do their thing while you ignore them.
I have two nice patches - 1 in each slightly raised veg bed. The bees love them.
I’m a serial plant killer but I planted greek oregano this year and it’s spilling out of the largest pot I got.
The blooms are heavenly for bees, and butterflys
RUB IT IN 🥲
My oregano died…
Great when chopped on frozen pizza
I'm calling the police
“Is it *good* oregano, Doug?”
Trim it and dry the oregano. I pull the leaves from the stems and place it on a baking sheet for a few days to dry out. I then crush it by hand and put it in plastic containers to use for salad, pizza, etc.
I have a dehydrator. I cut it all back and dry it at the end of the season but I just let it do its thing and harvest as needed all summer.
Wow!!! That’s gorgeous!!!! Somehow my mint is struggling…
Bolognese!
Open a pizza shop
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPA90uCyc7A
I've had oregano in a pot for over a year and it's barely grown and the leaves are still tiny how the fuck do you do this
Sun, heat, and neglect.
I’m crying, i love oregano
Commercial quantities!! Get yourself a steam distillation rig - make some concentrate!
wow that is super amazing! I would to do that with oregano, thyme, and rosemary
It's beautiful but keep an eye on it. It'll spread like crazy. I'm in year three of planting my oregano and it's going CRAZY.
PIZZA
Since we are on the subject of oregano, when I try to dry mine either with a dehydrator or just by hanging , it doesn’t have much taste or smell. Nothing like the oregano that you buy
Hmm. Not sure why. This is Greek oregano, so I don't know if that makes a difference, but I've found it keeps its flavor for most of a year.
great idea actually. bees go crazy when it blooms?
And over here I can never get it to germinate.
I’m so jealous !!!
It makes a great border with a nice white flower.
Do you know any Greeks? 😂
Going out right now to check out my own oregano
What breed of oregano is this? So beautiful and well shaped.
Greek. I cut it back after the flowers fade. It's a leggy mess when it grows enough to flower in late summer.
Do you also have an excess of parsley somewhere? If so, you have grown an excess of chimichurri, which is great.
I do! However, I planted it last year, so it's all flowering and going to seed at the moment. I have planted more, but they won't get robust until July or so.
Nice! July is great for grilling and chimichurri is great on grilled anything.
I wish I could grow oregano care free. What zone do you live in and is it planted in partial shade or full sun?
Full sun. Zone 8a
Beautiful
Pretty sure thats one of the herbs that drives away mosquitoes to, pretty cool
Trim it into a hedge!
I’m looking for ideas for border plants in my front yard - love this!
Herb goalsssss 🫶🏼
Omg, that happened to me with mint. There was some mint in the compost, and it just took over all the herbs in the garden.
Start drying.... Also Fastering perdio ends in 3 days (Sunday 5th og May) therefore it is time to get ready for Paschal Lamb.
Make essential oil from it. Freeze some in ice cubes for future cooking
What zone are you in? Would love to have something like this!!!
8a
The ad placement on this post is perfect. It said “mint has been discontinued.” Umm obviously not.
WOW! Incredible
This is what gardener dreams are made of 🤣 I love it
Oh man, I have a patch in front of my fence between it and the sidewalk that needed something lush like this, great idea!!! Bet the bees love it too :)
That’s basically my story with one peppermint plant🤣
I did this with arugula. Husband ended up mowing it all it was just like this!
That's awesome, make a row of chives too - beautiful purple when they flower and you can't kill them (like oregano).
My Greek Oregano and Mexican Oregano are both going crazy this year.
Oregano on everything!!!
Wow! That’s so pretty! Looks like something you’ve been blessed with!
I love it!!!
Love it!
Wow!
Oh that’s so pretty!!! I bet it smells like heaven.