Which are your favorite herbs? Read more about herbs on the website at bytherfarm.com/category/herbs Chive vinegar video ruclips.net/video/YzT3olEbtK4/видео.html.
When you have a pot full of plants, soak it in water first, washing the soil off makes t easier to untangle the roots, won't be perfect due to the roots blending with each other off each stem. Basil is one of those plants that you can grow from cuttings. I'd have taken that mass of plants and soaked it water, gotten them to get leggy, and taken cuttings, I am in the central Arkansas area of the USA. been growing plants for 50 years
@@ceojr1963 buying them early, and letting them go leggy in the kitchen window for cuttings is actually a really good idea. I'll have to remember that! Thank you!
Liz, I didn’t know it was that easy to propagate rosemary. I am going to try it tomorrow. Also I would buy a cookbook from you. I really think that that is something you should look into. I love hearing about your recipes.
Thank you, Liz, good timing. I am a member of a community garden that will celebrate 10 years in 2023. Over the years we realized we never has a "formal" plan for the shared herb plots we have and now I'm reading up and gathering helpful info on herbs. Your presentation is not complicated and lends a great assist to those struggling to get a grip. We have an abundance of chives and few takers so your vinegar will be good thing. Stay well.
Mint, sage, oregano, bay, fennel, lovage, chives, basil, thyme and lemon balm. I have 22 herbs including varieties. Pineapple mint I have to touch every time I pass it. I use mint, lemon balm and fennel seeds in herbal tea. So much more refreshing than the shop bought ones.
I have inherited sooo much rosemary and they are large thriving bushes, one use I have for them is cut off stems/branches and use them as skewers for meat/vegs on the bbq
Cilantro! It is a mainstay in the summer when we are making fresh Pico with our garden tomatoes. We also love it with some lime juice with grilled onion, peppers and chicken served in a tortilla. Also a great topper with any ramen soup
Your channel is lovely. You are living your best life. 👌 I have medical drawbacks and I think gardening is much better than any Rx. 👍🙏👍 I love watching you & Niall together. You each bring your Love of Gardening to the Online Chats 🌿💚🌿
Savory. winter or summer. I can only ever find seeds, never plants . I believe it is a primary ingredient in herbes de Provence. Plus in Germany it is the "bean herb" because it is supposed to help with the less sociably acceptable results of eating too many beans! Whatever I really love the taste. Dries beautifully too.
I adore lemon thyme! I have it planted in one of the beds in front of my house. Basil, sweet mint, oregano, cilantro(coriander), parsley, chives and bee balm are also in my beds! My neighbors have a absolutely huge rosemary hedge and next time I see them I'm going to ask them if I can have a few sprigs to transplant into my beds. I'll give them some mint or basil in exchange! 😉
Chives are monster plants.... they are totally forgiving! LOL I have just installed an herb garden and it took off like a rocket....in fact it's time to harvest all the chamomile! Liz, your garden has come leaps and bounds-- thanks so much for sharing!
I have Lemon Balm in my polytunnel and I pick 8-10 sprigs every day for tea. It's an amazing herb that keeps on giving. Bee Balm is also one of my favourites for tea. I love the aniseed flavour it adds and the bees adore the flowers. I have every herb you listed, except for Sweet Cicely. Now I'm keen to try the seeds :) My chickens adore fennel, so we have a lot of fennel in the garden for them. Herbs are so versatile and you can grow them in tiny spaces. I'm a fan of growing many herbs in a small space and they're great for beginner gardeners to grow.
Great vlog. LOVE all kind of herbs and always have them in my garden, even wild ones like wild garlic and garlic mustard. Many mint, i just let it grow. Many lemon balm. Basil in a pot on the sunny windowsill in the kitchen, Chives, Thyme, Lavender, Rosemary ( indeed no roast potatoes without Rosemary.) I absolutely love Lovage, not too strong for me. I use a bit of it ( not too much!!) in salads and in crumbled eggs or on fried egg. Parsley and Coriander on the other hand are much too strong for me and i never grow it. They make me burb. And i hardly ever burb except when drinking beer which i hardly ever do 😂Love sage! In The Netherlands where i live it is called Salie. We drink warm Saliemelk, which is cooked milk with some Sage leaves. Delicious.
👏🏻 Herbs are among my favorite plants to grow - because they're what make my veggies into a delicious meal 😋 And off the top of my head I can't even think of any herbs we grow that you've missed... ETA: and just as I had posted, I remembered: have you tried sorrel? We love to use it as a substitute for lemon or lime juice
Great list, there's a few on there I'll have to try if I can find room :) I grow way more herbs than I could possibly use (don't we all?) but I absolutely love the seeing them flower. I've never seen more insects in my garden than when the herbs are in bloom. I fail at coriander every year, it always goes to seed before I get any but the delicate little flowers bloom for months and then the seed can be saved for cooking after. (I know you can't eat them but for anyone else, lemon coriander seeds are incredible). I'd definitely recommend sage for the flowers, every year it explodes into a huge purple mass which is an absolute bee magnet!
I am in no way a herb guy probably as not good cook lol …. But LIZ YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME … thank you … I will bring the herbs and you can show me how to use them 🤓😇😆 take care
We love growing our herbs, especially parsley, and basil. So tasty in so many dishes. I also love mint, which I grow around the chicken run to act as a natural insect repellent. Seems to work out well.
Thank you for all your guidance it is wonderful to watch and then apply the learning in to my own new vegetable garden! I particularly love coriander so that is high on my list of herbs to grow!
Thank you so much for the rosemary tips. I’m going to snip some of mine and add it to pots today . Hopefully next year they will have some roots for new shrubs xx .
We have masses of marjoram - you are welcome to some chunks. We're near Newcastle Emlyn if you get over this way? I let it free range - great for bees and the blooms make a fab tea.
I love oregano, basil, rosemary and sage. Sage is lovely when you fry it in oil and it gets all crisp. I got some from a italian friend straight out of her mothers garden. I tought that was a lovely touching gift( i live in belgium and she brought it back here ). Nice video !
Lovely collection and tips. Several years ago a gardening friend gave me starts of Nepetella calamentha, that has a lovely flavor combing several favorites - rather like marjoram, with overtones of other herbs. I have a nice big pot of Winter savory, garlic chives, several mints and thymes, lemon verbena has also made it through several winters. I also love scented geraniums, lavender, and have a tea camellia shrub!
I have always grown a few herbs, and done pretty well with most of them: thyme usually very short lived on heavy clay soil in mid wales and Rosemary usually quite tender, so rarely overwintered successfully. Going to be interesting to see how different it is here near the west coast of Scotland - a little less cold but pretty brutal winds so creating corners where they can be a little more protected. I adore the scent of mints so I have gone a little wild and bought a lot of different scented ones- my 3 year old grandson loves pinching the leaves and sniffing! I’m putting lots in pots under my windows to deter the midgies from hanging round there, and the ones that I know are complete thugs are headed for the permaculture field… I love making mint tea in the summer and have even been known to take a good sized clump away with me on caravan holidays! Two lesser known ones that I’ve loved having right by the door for snipping into salads and omelettes are winter and summer savory. Quite hardy through to frosts and certainly one or two plants have made it through the winter in sheltered spots,..
West coast of Scotland here too. Wet, sometimes windy, and mild. I have had a Rosemary Bush in the garden for years. Also happy here are Parsley, Sage, Thyme , Chives Mint, Lemon Balm, and even a Bay though the later is the better for a bit of shelter from the winter winds ! Mid summer you can plant out basil, but I have never found it grows much. My soil tends to sandy rather than clay.
I love coriander parsley caper leaves. I like thyme mint and bay leaves. Chives and fennel are good but I really do not like basil. My husband loves it. Greek use a herb they call marathon.
I doing new herb garden in trough planters and pots.AS I have a large concert path near back door leading to green house.I really had to start most of them by seed but least my rosemary has started to grow back and my Lemon thyme . Yesterday I found my french tarragon in the pot it looks a bit unwell but today seems to have perked up.The bay is OK as it was growing in a pot. But my favourite is large lemon balm growing at the end of my path.
Hi Liz and Mr J. Wow what a difference a few weeks of warmer weather has made to your beds. I love Sorel, where I used to live we had it wild, I tried to take seeds but lost the plants, found some in a local nature reserve the other day! Could you tell us what the giant flower spikes are that were in many of your shots? Take care and stay safe, Mike
Veg garden tour coming in the next few days, where I go through each bed and name all the plants. Hopefully I'll also will have a blog post on my website by then with a list of all plants and suggestions of where to buy them. (fingers crossed that I get time to finish the article)
Hi Liz, it's sad but I finally got a thyme through the winter and now my pug has used the pot as a potty and killed the thyme, I give in and when I get back from the Eden project I'll start again.💖
Planned on planting herbs last year until i lost my smell from covid. Eucalyptus is the first scent that came back. I love the herb but the stratification part confused me soaking for a night then fridge for 3 months?
You could wonder what the exact definition is of the word " herb". There are so many plants usable in the kitchen. For example Nasturtium/ Indian cress. I use it a lot in salads and often eat some leaves or flowers fresh from the plant. And what about all the plants and shrubs usable for teas. I drink a lot of Cistus Incanus ( rock rose/ sun rose family) . It is delicious and extremely healthy> anti bacterial and even better nowadays > anti viral. I drink it with some biological pure honey. Leaves of strawberry and raspberry also great in salads and for teas. Leaves of grape bush eatable fresh or cooked , and so on.
Hi Liz, I really love all your videos/ideas/growing. But this time I have to say I am a bit taken aback by all the plastic you have between your beds. Was that really necessary? Could you not have used cardboard and straw, or chop and drop combos?
Just as I did in my last garden, the plastic membrane is there for ease of use and will be lifted after 3-5 years. I've also used a cornstarch membrane that has no plastic in it and will start to break down in about 3 years. Cardboard and straw do not stand up to the vigorous weeds in the field - creeping buttercup, silver buttercup, docks, thistles and couch grass grow straight through cardboard and straw - I've tried it many times and regretted it. Everywhere else on site, I use a plastic free cornstarch membrane, but for these high traffic pathways, I am choosing to give myself a head start.
Great list! I always seem to have the problem that the herbs produce at another time than the vegetable I want to use them with. For example, I have great dill ready now but the cucumber will take another couple of weeks. Same with cilantro and tomatoes. Do you have any tips how to best preserve these herbs?
So sorry for your loss... my garden is my sanctuary since my loss. It is a blessing to share what I grow with others and just a lovely time spent with nature.
Take good care for yourself. You are worth it. Gardening and cooking will distract you from worrying and sadness. They are the best therapies . Wish you well.
Presumably it would be like many things that cross pollinate, there will be a mixture of genes from each plant, but it won't always be the same mix of genes.
The plants aren't much to look at and they taste bitter. Not something, you would want to grow. But to avoid cross-pollination, you can remove the fennel flowers in years where you want to save the dill seeds for sowing (and vice versa).
@@LizZorab Understandable. I slightly ballooned after Christmas and Eastern 🤣After winter in total that is. Nice tempting food....wine!......less movement/ walking. Always the same. 👎
Which are your favorite herbs? Read more about herbs on the website at bytherfarm.com/category/herbs Chive vinegar video ruclips.net/video/YzT3olEbtK4/видео.html.
When you have a pot full of plants, soak it in water first, washing the soil off makes t easier to untangle the roots, won't be perfect due to the roots blending with each other off each stem. Basil is one of those plants that you can grow from cuttings. I'd have taken that mass of plants and soaked it water, gotten them to get leggy, and taken cuttings, I am in the central Arkansas area of the USA. been growing plants for 50 years
@@ceojr1963 buying them early, and letting them go leggy in the kitchen window for cuttings is actually a really good idea. I'll have to remember that! Thank you!
Liz, I didn’t know it was that easy to propagate rosemary. I am going to try it tomorrow. Also I would buy a cookbook from you. I really think that that is something you should look into. I love hearing about your recipes.
Thank you, Liz, good timing. I am a member of a community garden that will celebrate 10 years in 2023. Over the years we realized we never has a "formal" plan for the shared herb plots we have and now I'm reading up and gathering helpful info on herbs. Your presentation is not complicated and lends a great assist to those struggling to get a grip. We have an abundance of chives and few takers so your vinegar will be good thing. Stay well.
Lemon balm is good for dusting furniture. Just pick a good size sprig and rub across your furniture. Makes the room smell wonderful.
Mint, sage, oregano, bay, fennel, lovage, chives, basil, thyme and lemon balm. I have 22 herbs including varieties. Pineapple mint I have to touch every time I pass it. I use mint, lemon balm and fennel seeds in herbal tea. So much more refreshing than the shop bought ones.
I have inherited sooo much rosemary and they are large thriving bushes, one use I have for them is cut off stems/branches and use them as skewers for meat/vegs on the bbq
Basil, oregano, Thyme and Chocolate Mint.
I swear, every time I watch your videos you share a plant I hadn't heard of. Of to buy some orange thyme now!
Personally, i prefer common and lemon thyme over orange thyme, though it isn't bad.
I think that means I'll doing my job! Yay!
frenchteragon, we have it her in norway westcost. It is very good plant . It grow well and can take the winter very well. It grow autside.
Cilantro! It is a mainstay in the summer when we are making fresh Pico with our garden tomatoes.
We also love it with some lime juice with grilled onion, peppers and chicken served in a tortilla. Also a great topper with any ramen soup
Your channel is lovely. You are living your best life. 👌 I have medical drawbacks and I think gardening is much better than any Rx. 👍🙏👍
I love watching you & Niall together.
You each bring your Love of Gardening to the Online Chats 🌿💚🌿
Love your list and.using rosemary for hedges which is done in New Orleans.
Savory. winter or summer. I can only ever find seeds, never plants . I believe it is a primary ingredient in herbes de Provence. Plus in Germany it is the "bean herb" because it is supposed to help with the less sociably acceptable results of eating too many beans! Whatever I really love the taste. Dries beautifully too.
Thank you Liz for making a difference in my life!
Aw, that's lovely! Thank you!
I adore lemon thyme! I have it planted in one of the beds in front of my house. Basil, sweet mint, oregano, cilantro(coriander), parsley, chives and bee balm are also in my beds! My neighbors have a absolutely huge rosemary hedge and next time I see them I'm going to ask them if I can have a few sprigs to transplant into my beds. I'll give them some mint or basil in exchange! 😉
Tarragon is very good on fresh sliced tomatoes
The supermarket pot trick works well, I'm using it again for parsley this year.
Chives :) Cilantro :) Mint :)
Chives are monster plants.... they are totally forgiving! LOL I have just installed an herb garden and it took off like a rocket....in fact it's time to harvest all the chamomile! Liz, your garden has come leaps and bounds-- thanks so much for sharing!
I love herbs, you are right about them being forgiving! Next video (today or tomorrow) is a full tour of the new veg garden.
I have Lemon Balm in my polytunnel and I pick 8-10 sprigs every day for tea. It's an amazing herb that keeps on giving. Bee Balm is also one of my favourites for tea. I love the aniseed flavour it adds and the bees adore the flowers. I have every herb you listed, except for Sweet Cicely. Now I'm keen to try the seeds :) My chickens adore fennel, so we have a lot of fennel in the garden for them. Herbs are so versatile and you can grow them in tiny spaces. I'm a fan of growing many herbs in a small space and they're great for beginner gardeners to grow.
Your garden is starting to compete with that beautiful view!
THANK you for the Chive Vinegar recipe, looking forward to trying. Liz would you PLEASE add your country wine recipe to the recipe list.
There's a playlist of wine making videos here ruclips.net/p/PLa6906pLM92lxGse1AY7aWKq1XtpftpLf
Great vlog. LOVE all kind of herbs and always have them in my garden, even wild ones like wild garlic and garlic mustard. Many mint, i just let it grow. Many lemon balm. Basil in a pot on the sunny windowsill in the kitchen, Chives, Thyme, Lavender, Rosemary ( indeed no roast potatoes without Rosemary.) I absolutely love Lovage, not too strong for me. I use a bit of it ( not too much!!) in salads and in crumbled eggs or on fried egg. Parsley and Coriander on the other hand are much too strong for me and i never grow it. They make me burb. And i hardly ever burb except when drinking beer which i hardly ever do 😂Love sage! In The Netherlands where i live it is called Salie. We drink warm Saliemelk, which is cooked milk with some Sage leaves. Delicious.
I just bought a basil that tastes like peppery licorice. Excited to taste it in a salad or something…. Idk yet.
You did NOT forget thyme. You mention it, albeit subconsciously, right next to the Basil at 0:30 :p
👏🏻 Herbs are among my favorite plants to grow - because they're what make my veggies into a delicious meal 😋
And off the top of my head I can't even think of any herbs we grow that you've missed...
ETA: and just as I had posted, I remembered: have you tried sorrel? We love to use it as a substitute for lemon or lime juice
Yes we had it at our last place, we didn't like it, so haven't brought any with us.
@@LizZorab - I was told to make soup from it. I almost tore it out 🤣
You can find sorrel in abundance in the wild.
Mine are Basil, Coriander, Thyme, Mint, Parsley, Dill and too many others!! Love them all.
Lovely parade of herbs.
They are all on my list too. They are so useful for so many things. Couldn't be without a ready supply of herbs. Thanks Liz.
Great list, there's a few on there I'll have to try if I can find room :) I grow way more herbs than I could possibly use (don't we all?) but I absolutely love the seeing them flower. I've never seen more insects in my garden than when the herbs are in bloom. I fail at coriander every year, it always goes to seed before I get any but the delicate little flowers bloom for months and then the seed can be saved for cooking after. (I know you can't eat them but for anyone else, lemon coriander seeds are incredible). I'd definitely recommend sage for the flowers, every year it explodes into a huge purple mass which is an absolute bee magnet!
Really nice video!I love chocolate mint & corriander
I love Lemon Verbena. It can be a bit tender, but has a more intense sherbet lemon flavour than lemon balm and makes a lovely tea.
Sage 😊
I am in no way a herb guy probably as not good cook lol …. But LIZ YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME … thank you … I will bring the herbs and you can show me how to use them 🤓😇😆 take care
Thanks Liz
I made the mistake of planto two pots of mint in my chicken pen 🙈 I now have two massive mint bush’s. It smells divine 👌😂🌱
Hi I have a big bay tree and have found that insects really dislike bay, useful inside and outside the house.
Oh that's a good tip, perhaps I should put it in a pot near the house. Thank you!
Add a couple of bay leaves to dried beans and rice when storing them. Keeps the bugs away. Plus it's a great flavor.
We love growing our herbs, especially parsley, and basil. So tasty in so many dishes. I also love mint, which I grow around the chicken run to act as a natural insect repellent. Seems to work out well.
@Charissa Troup thanks fo the tip about growing mint around the chicken run. The flies are a bother and I have mint. Sounds like a plan. Cheers.
I put a few sprigs of tarragon into a bottle of Modena vinegar; it makes a delicious salad dressing ingredient!
Ooh, I like the sound of this! Thank you!
Thank you for all your guidance it is wonderful to watch and then apply the learning in to my own new vegetable garden! I particularly love coriander so that is high on my list of herbs to grow!
I love coriander as a plant, but sadly I'm allergic to it when eaten, so I don't have it on my list. The flowers are fabulous 🌼
@@LizZorab No Coriander for me either. Makes me burb, strangely enough. i hardly ever burb 😂
Thank you so much for the rosemary tips. I’m going to snip some of mine and add it to pots today . Hopefully next year they will have some roots for new shrubs xx .
A few weeks.
We have masses of marjoram - you are welcome to some chunks. We're near Newcastle Emlyn if you get over this way? I let it free range - great for bees and the blooms make a fab tea.
I'm really loving the Hamburg root parsleyxx
I love oregano, basil, rosemary and sage. Sage is lovely when you fry it in oil and it gets all crisp. I got some from a italian friend straight out of her mothers garden. I tought that was a lovely touching gift( i live in belgium and she brought it back here ). Nice video !
Lovely collection and tips. Several years ago a gardening friend gave me starts of Nepetella calamentha, that has a lovely flavor combing several favorites - rather like marjoram, with overtones of other herbs.
I have a nice big pot of Winter savory, garlic chives, several mints and thymes, lemon verbena has also made it through several winters. I also love scented geraniums, lavender, and have a tea camellia shrub!
i have come and now on the lap top/good video
Hi Caroline, thanks for persevering 😃
I love my lemon balm! It's one of the best smells of summer.
I have always grown a few herbs, and done pretty well with most of them: thyme usually very short lived on heavy clay soil in mid wales and Rosemary usually quite tender, so rarely overwintered successfully. Going to be interesting to see how different it is here near the west coast of Scotland - a little less cold but pretty brutal winds so creating corners where they can be a little more protected.
I adore the scent of mints so I have gone a little wild and bought a lot of different scented ones- my 3 year old grandson loves pinching the leaves and sniffing!
I’m putting lots in pots under my windows to deter the midgies from hanging round there, and the ones that I know are complete thugs are headed for the permaculture field… I love making mint tea in the summer and have even been known to take a good sized clump away with me on caravan holidays!
Two lesser known ones that I’ve loved having right by the door for snipping into salads and omelettes are winter and summer savory. Quite hardy through to frosts and certainly one or two plants have made it through the winter in sheltered spots,..
I love winter savory! It only missed being in my list because I wanted 15 and not 16 and didn't feel I could leave any of the others out 😃
West coast of Scotland here too. Wet, sometimes windy, and mild. I have had a Rosemary Bush in the garden for years. Also happy here are Parsley, Sage, Thyme , Chives Mint, Lemon Balm, and even a Bay though the later is the better for a bit of shelter from the winter winds !
Mid summer you can plant out basil, but I have never found it grows much. My soil tends to sandy rather than clay.
Great video Liz. I especially love the hints of what to do with each herb.
Thank you Liz! I have ordered the Greek bean seeds. Hopefully not to late to sow now 🤞🏻
Awesome update Liz thank you for sharing must divide my basil too nice to chat up
Thank you so much for all the information we have planted a rosemary hedge last year we used cuttings as well as some full plants it is doing well.
Wonderful! I hope that it grows well for you 😊
I love coriander parsley caper leaves. I like thyme mint and bay leaves. Chives and fennel are good but I really do not like basil. My husband loves it. Greek use a herb they call marathon.
Marathon would be fennel.
I doing new herb garden in trough planters and pots.AS I have a large concert path near back door leading to green house.I really had to start most of them by seed but least my rosemary has started to grow back and my Lemon thyme . Yesterday I found my french tarragon in the pot it looks a bit unwell but today seems to have perked up.The bay is OK as it was growing in a pot. But my favourite is large lemon balm growing at the end of my path.
UK south Yorkshire Am happy that got garden that can be in.
Hi Liz and Mr J. Wow what a difference a few weeks of warmer weather has made to your beds.
I love Sorel, where I used to live we had it wild, I tried to take seeds but lost the plants, found some in a local nature reserve the other day!
Could you tell us what the giant flower spikes are that were in many of your shots? Take care and stay safe, Mike
Veg garden tour coming in the next few days, where I go through each bed and name all the plants. Hopefully I'll also will have a blog post on my website by then with a list of all plants and suggestions of where to buy them. (fingers crossed that I get time to finish the article)
Hi Liz, it's sad but I finally got a thyme through the winter and now my pug has used the pot as a potty and killed the thyme, I give in and when I get back from the Eden project I'll start again.💖
Can you grow bay from cuttings? Mine seems to be dying for some reason so I would love to be able to propagate it before it's too late.
Here's my video showing how I take heel cuttings of bay ruclips.net/video/DGM5PLmr8dk/видео.html
Planned on planting herbs last year until i lost my smell from covid. Eucalyptus is the first scent that came back. I love the herb but the stratification part confused me soaking for a night then fridge for 3 months?
You could wonder what the exact definition is of the word " herb". There are so many plants usable in the kitchen. For example Nasturtium/ Indian cress. I use it a lot in salads and often eat some leaves or flowers fresh from the plant. And what about all the plants and shrubs usable for teas. I drink a lot of Cistus Incanus ( rock rose/ sun rose family) . It is delicious and extremely healthy> anti bacterial and even better nowadays > anti viral. I drink it with some biological pure honey. Leaves of strawberry and raspberry also great in salads and for teas. Leaves of grape bush eatable fresh or cooked , and so on.
I just found out marathon is fennel Greeks use this in vegetarian dolmades
Rosemary hedge. Noice.
Hi Liz, I really love all your videos/ideas/growing. But this time I have to say I am a bit taken aback by all the plastic you have between your beds. Was that really necessary? Could you not have used cardboard and straw, or chop and drop combos?
Just as I did in my last garden, the plastic membrane is there for ease of use and will be lifted after 3-5 years. I've also used a cornstarch membrane that has no plastic in it and will start to break down in about 3 years. Cardboard and straw do not stand up to the vigorous weeds in the field - creeping buttercup, silver buttercup, docks, thistles and couch grass grow straight through cardboard and straw - I've tried it many times and regretted it. Everywhere else on site, I use a plastic free cornstarch membrane, but for these high traffic pathways, I am choosing to give myself a head start.
Great list! I always seem to have the problem that the herbs produce at another time than the vegetable I want to use them with. For example, I have great dill ready now but the cucumber will take another couple of weeks. Same with cilantro and tomatoes. Do you have any tips how to best preserve these herbs?
Is it possible for you to sow some ekstra seeds a month later?
You can dry many herbs by hanging it upside down, somewhere in a shed or an attic or so.
No Borage?
i love to grow them but since my wife passed away i dont hardly cook
So sorry for your loss... my garden is my sanctuary since my loss. It is a blessing to share what I grow with others and just a lovely time spent with nature.
Take good care for yourself. You are worth it. Gardening and cooking will distract you from worrying and sadness. They are the best therapies . Wish you well.
What kind of plant do you get out of a dill-fennel cross?
Presumably it would be like many things that cross pollinate, there will be a mixture of genes from each plant, but it won't always be the same mix of genes.
The plants aren't much to look at and they taste bitter. Not something, you would want to grow. But to avoid cross-pollination, you can remove the fennel flowers in years where you want to save the dill seeds for sowing (and vice versa).
@@rodhatte
Thank you.
This is the first time I had heard of these two plants cross pollinating.
I have grown fennel with it self seeding.
@@mballer I should probably mention, that it's not something I've tried myself, but I've read about it both in books and on the internet.
Sow parsley and sage you'll have thyme for no man
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Thank you!
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( In my opinion longer hair suits you so much better.....which is not really important ;) )
I was thinking the same too but of course not really relevant to gardening ;)
It might also be that I weighed less when I hair was longer. My thyroid is playing up again and I've ballooned in size recently.
@@LizZorab I've a thyroid condition too, it can be a pain to control but the only redeeming feature is free NHS prescriptions.
@@LizZorab Understandable. I slightly ballooned after Christmas and Eastern 🤣After winter in total that is. Nice tempting food....wine!......less movement/ walking. Always the same. 👎
i havecome back