I apologize if this post comes up twice, it says that it didn't go through so I am doing it again:

This may sound like a rediculous question, but here goes:

How do I know when I can start eating or drying my oregano plant? and also, is the whole plant edible?!!??!

Thanks for your patience everyone!!!!!!!

ninni

I snip mine for drying just when the flower buds are getting ready to pop. I watch and in the morning before the warm gets to it, I snip off and start to dry.
I don't know about the whole thing as I just use the leaves.

My plant is quite young, It is two months old, started from seed. It is very little right now, no signs of Flowers for a while yet, so I think anyway. I am such a beginner that when I started my oregano seeds, I put them too deep and I put half the package in the pot, a little 6" pot. a few weeks went by and they STILL were not growing!! My fiance told me I probably buried them to deep. So i took a spoon and started flipping over the soil in the pot and sure enough, there were 10 - 20 little plants not able to make it up through, So i turned the dirt over two or three times and the next day I had about 20 little plants starting. Now they are getting tall and gangly, I have no idea if Oregano is suppose to look like that. Quite honestly I don't even know how to pinch those plants back....The Tallest little sprig is about 4" tall I think it is ready to droop over, is it ok for oregano to do that?

Thanks!!!!

ninni