How to grow Summer Savory?
- Latin Family: Lamiaceae
- Latin Genus: Satureja
- Ease of Growing: Moderate
- Growing Type: Annual
Summer Savory is a culinary herb used for flavoring meats, dressings, soups, and salads. It's especially good in bean and cabbage dishes, herb butters, and vinegars. A blending herb with a peppery thyme quality, summer savory draws together diverse flavors. Essential to Herbs de Provence. The plant also repels some insect pests.
Medicinal: Reportedly the fresh leaves may be rubbed on insect stings to relieve pain. Gargling a leaf infusion can soothe sore throats.
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Summer Savory History
Summer Savory is native to Southern Europe.
Soil Preference
- PH (min/max): 6.0 - 8.0
- PH Ideal (min/max): 6.5 - 7.0
Summer Savory prefers a rich, well-drained light, loamy soil with lots of organic matter.
How to care for Summer Savory?
Make sure to keep the soil moist and harvest regularly to encourage more leaf production.
Water
Summer Savory grows best if the soil is moist, but is quite drought tolerant.
Fertilizer
Summer Savory grows best in a fairly rich soil.
Seeds
Seed Viability: 1 - 2 years
Germination Percentage: 75.0
Summer Savory is an annual and produces perfect (having both male and female parts) self-pollinating flowers. They are insect pollinated and attractive to bees. Remove the ripe seeds from the dried flower heads and store in a paper bag in a cool, well ventilated place. It self-sows fairly readily.
Light
Sun: min. 6 hours daily
Summer Savory prefers to be planted in full sun. It cannot grow in the shade.
Conditions:Cool, Warm, Hot
Season:Short Season, Long Season
Storage
Once the plant flowers hang it upside down to dry in a well-ventilated place. Individual sprigs can also be hung to dry at any time before flowering but there isn't much of a need to until the end of your crop (fresh Savory is delicious). Store in an airtight container away from sunlight.
Storage Req: Dry
Storage Temp: 60-75°F
Storage Length: 1-180 days
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Summer Savory Types
- Summer Savory
Cooking herb used for flavoring meats, dressings, soups, and salads. Especially good in bean and cabbage dishes, herb butters, and vinegars. A blending herb with a peppery thyme quality, Summer Savory draws together diverse flavors. Essential to the herb blend, Herbs de Provence . The plant also repels some insect pests.
Medicinal: Reportedly the fresh leaves may be rubbed on insect stings to relieve pain. Gargling a leaf infusion can soothe sore throats.
Pests
- Spider Mites
- Aphids
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