Growing tarragon (tarragon)

Tarragon or tarragon is a healthy perennial herb with a pleasant taste and aroma. Tarragon can grow in one place for about 6 years, its height reaches 1.5 meters.

There are two forms of tarragon: Russian and French, which differ in height, leaf appearance and essential oil content.

Despite their external differences, both forms of tarragon love loose and well-fertilized soil, as well as well-lit places.

Growing tarragon requires compliance with certain rules.
In Ukraine and Russia, this plant is usually propagated by rhizomes and cuttings. As a rule, cuttings up to 15 centimeters long are cut in the spring and planted in a greenhouse or greenhouse in soil whose temperature should be 13-18 degrees. The rhizomes are divided immediately before planting.

After the root shoots and cuttings take root, they are planted in rows in the garden bed, with the distance in one row between plants should be about 20 centimeters, and between rows about 50 centimeters, and the planting depth should reach 10 centimeters. Also, when planting, tarragon needs to be watered.

Basically, growing tarragon involves watering, constantly killing weeds and loosening the soil between rows. Only from the second year do they begin to introduce fertilizers.

In the first year of tarragon's life, the greens are cut off at the end of summer. And in subsequent years, cutting is done during the growing season as needed.