nirgundi :

Cultivation:

• It is widely planted as a hedge plant in between the fields and usually not browsed by the cattle.
• It can be reproduced readily from shoot cuttings.
• It produces root suckers which can also be utilized as planting material.
• An easily grown plant, it prefers a light well-drained loamy soil in a warm sunny position sheltered from cold drying winds succeeds in poor dry soils.
• Plants tolerate temperatures down to about -10°C.
• The leaves and stems are strongly aromatic.
• The flowers have a most Pronounced musk-like perfume

Propogation:

Seed - sow March in a greenhouse. It does not need any pre-treatment.

• Germination is usually free and quick. Prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle and grow them on in the greenhouse for their first winter.
• Plant them out into their permanent positions in early summer of the following year.
• Cuttings of half-ripe wood, 5 - 8cm with a heel, July/August in a frame. Good percentage.
• Cuttings of mature wood of the current seasons growth, November in a cold frame

Harvesting:

Leaves are harvested in early summer and used fresh or dried

 

Roots are harvested in late summer and autumn, and dried for later use

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