{"id":234,"date":"2010-05-13T14:32:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymontys.com\/wordpress\/?p=234"},"modified":"2010-05-13T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:37:22","slug":"uh-oh-oregano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Uh-Oh Oregano!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so my first failure of the season.\u00a0 I transplanted some oregano and now, it is dead.\u00a0 Everything I had heard about this plant was that it was easy to transplant, easy to grow.\u00a0 So,\u00a0I didn&#8217;t put much thought into it;\u00a0I just planted it.\u00a0 Now, it&#8217;s dead.\u00a0 I have planted some German Thyme in it&#8217;s place and will try again this weekend.\u00a0 After I did my research.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I learned.\u00a0 First, the main species of oregano that most people\u00a0are familiar with is Greek Oregeno, the other more pungent variety is Mexican Oregano.\u00a0 However, the names should tell us something.\u00a0 They are used to growing in poor soils, in full sun, and in fairly dry conditions.<\/p>\n<p>I over-watered mine apparently.<\/p>\n<p>A few more tips about oregano.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pinch off any flowers to allow the plant to &#8216;bush out&#8217; more and to keep it from bolting.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Harvesting before flowers have a chance to develop will also provide a more &#8216;oregano-y tasting plant (is that a word..probably not, but you get the idea).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Also, the stems can get very woody, so strip the leaves by running your fingers from the top of the stem down toward the base and removing them from the main stem.\u00a0 Discard the stem.\u00a0 Not a lot of flavor there.<\/li>\n<li>Since you are looking to produce moderate growth, and you do not want to encourage flowering, a bi-weekly feeding of <a href=\"http:\/\/mymontys.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=11:ss&amp;catid=2:fertility-products&amp;Itemid=4\">Monty&#8217;s 4-15-12 <\/a>should be enough to sustain these plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know more, <a href=\"http:\/\/gardening.about.com\/od\/plantprofil2\/p\/Oregano.htm\">check out this site. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Btw, if you have some success tips for growing oregano or other herbs, please reply back\/comment and let us know.\u00a0 I would enjoy learning from you and I am sure it would be a help to others in our blogging community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/?p=234\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/?p=234\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so my first failure of the season.\u00a0 I transplanted some oregano and now, it is dead.\u00a0 Everything I had heard about this plant was that it was easy to transplant, easy to grow.\u00a0 So,\u00a0I didn&#8217;t put much thought into it;\u00a0I just planted it.\u00a0 Now, it&#8217;s dead.\u00a0 I have planted some German Thyme in it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/?p=234\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/?p=234\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,232,73,70,44,11,74],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garden","tag-gardening","tag-herbs","tag-montys-4-15-12","tag-montys-plant-food","tag-montys-plant-food-company","tag-oregano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordpress.mymontys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}