Absinthe Blog

So you are thinking of adding wormwood to your garden this season but you need some tips on how to do it. The first thing that you will need is some wormwood seeds and they should be available over the Internet. However; what you will also find while you are searching for wormwood seeds is that you can easily buy raw wormwood already sifted and bagged from specialty herb retailers on the Internet and that is a lot easier than growing it.

Wormwood grows wild in some regions of Europe and it is also cultivated for commercial use there, so there should be no problem in growing it in the U.S. However; before you crank up your John Deer tractor and plow under your entire crop of tomatoes to plant wormwood, you may want to study up on the various varieties that there are.

For instance, there is a variety of wormwood that is called “Grand Wormwood” that is indigenous to Switzerland and it exclusively goes into the making of Kubler absinthe which is the top selling premium absinthe in Switzerland.

The best idea is to start your seedlings in small Styrofoam cups that you have poked a small hole in the bottom of for drainage. Fill each cup with the best ph balanced potting soil that you can find for sale and plant a seed in each one and place on a window sill that gets plenty of sunlight.

Water once thoroughly and then allow to sit for a few days but don’t over water and don’t fertilize as doing either one of these things will zap your seedlings before they have a chance to sprout.

After your seedling begin to appear, move them outside into more sun but make sure that they don’t get cooked in the direct sun all day. After they outgrow their cups, plant them in the ground and tend to them as they need it.