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Garden Thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.)
The generic name has its origins in the Greek
Etymology
Origin and description of the plant
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verb
perfuma,
alluding
to
its
strong
and
pleasant perfume.
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The specific name demonstrates its common
presence.
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Garden Thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.)
Etymology
Origin and description of the plant
Thyme appears normally in the countries of
occidental Mediterranean basin, on dry soils
and is very abundant in Eastern, Central and
Southern Iberic Peninsula.
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It is an aromatic and vivacious lignified and
polyform plant, with a variable height of 10-40
cm, and several lignified branches.
It has linear, oblong, and dentate leaves with
3-8 mm.
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Its auxiliary flowers are arranged in the
extremity of the branches, forming a kind
terminal capitulum.
Its fruit is brownish and a tetrachene.
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It flowers in March.
The parts which are used are leaves and
flowers.
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Garden Thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.)
Thyme can be sown in lands with up to 1800 m
altitude.
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It rather prefers alluvium and chalky rich
soils, although it develops in clayish, softy and
siliceous soils.
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This plant can be sown in a tempered climate
or in mountains.
It resists to rime-frosts storms,
doesn't bear the excess of water.
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it
Garden Thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.)
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It reproduces through seeds or through a
vegetative stage, by plant division or stakes.
1000 seeds weight 0.265 gr.
It has a maximum germination percentage of
90%, 20°C, in 16 days, in dark.
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When it is multiplied by plant division, this is
done during November till March.
Stakes can be used during all year long, but
thyme must be in its vegetative activity.
Its roots are developed in two months.
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Seed plotting is done during April till May.
When the plant has 6-8 cm height should be
transplanted, normally during December till
April.
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2 g of seeds are required to sow 10m². As the
seeds are very little, it is necessary to
mixture them with sand, in order to facilitate
the seeding.
Spacing between the rows should be 60-80 cm
and the distance between plants is 25-30 cm;
thus a crop density of 40 000-50 000
plants/ha.
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Weeds can be removed by manual weeding.
The main pest that attack thyme are
phytophagous nematodes in the root system.
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Symptoms are the yellowing of leaves.
Cultivar's treatment against nematodes can be
seen in the table below (Adp. Bustamante,
1993 and Ferreira et al., 1998).
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The falling of the leaves and their yellowing,
after flowering, are natural phenomena that
cannot be mixed up with pests.
When thyme is sown in vegetable-gardens, the
cabbage butterfly is repelled because of its
odour.
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Harvesting is done once, rarely twice, before
flowering (May-November).
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These plant ensure a production of 4-5 t/ha of
fresh plant.
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With drying, there is a loss of 60-65 %.
After separated the dry leaves amount is 8001200 kg/ha, this is 20-22 % of its initial
weight.
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Bibliography
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