Oregano question

Dial Hard

Hi All

I have a 2.5 year old Greek oregano plant that I've largely ignored for the past two years. It was in a large pot with a mature thyme plant but was really starting to crowd the thyme so today I finally got around to repotting it. The oregano was gone so big that I divided it in two and put it in two separate, large terracotta pots.

However, because I more or less let it do its own thing and only ever harvested what I needed to cook with, it's gone very spindly. Can I trim it right back once the plants are established in their new pots, or will that cause irreversible damage?

They look like this now:

looksee

I would suggest you cut it back immediately, it will help it settle into its new pot. You will improve the plant by pruning, the new growth is better for harvesting. Keep it moist now you have transplanted it.

Dial Hard

So, as posted above, I repotted my oregano back in August and noticed something rather wonderful today.






Yes, that's coriander.

I had coriander in one of the pots last year (or possibly even the year before, I can't remember) and the seeds had obviously dropped into the soil, which I just topped up when I replanted the oregano rather than replacing it altogether. But my mind is still a bit blown considering A) it's October and it's growing in both pots when only one of them ever had coriander in it to begin with.

Delighted, though, as we go through swathes of coriander in my house :-)