Thyme: How to Grow & Use This Amazing Herb (COMPLETE GUIDE)
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Thyme is one of the most versatile herbs out there. Easy to grow, easy to harvest, and useful for not only your cooking, but all sorts of recipes. Kevin shows you how to grow & sow it, and Ana on the team shows you how to turn it into thyme lollipops, lotion bars, and thyme & lemon shortbread.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Varieties
01:04 - History
02:10 - Growing
04:24 - Planting
06:18 - Harvesting
07:15 - Use
08:08 - Lollipop
11:19 - Lotion Bar
13:00 - Hot Infusion
18:55 - Shortbread
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I have to say, I really like this style of video. Not just showing you how to grow something, but offering some unique ideas on how to use it too.
Same here!
Agreed!
I would like to see more like this.
Me too! ❤
"Thyme can help combat stress and anxiety." Welp, thyme to plant my entire yard with the magical herb.
Thyme as a grass substitute sounds interesting at the very least
Mmm, an entire lawn of spider mites lol
My whole front garden is getting a thyme ground cover
@@BrandanLeeSpider mites like thyme? 🤔
Take your thumbs up and don't talk to me for thirty minutes.
Please keep doing videos on using what we grow, especially the herbs! I LOVED Ana showing us these recipes! I have Greek Oregano in abundance and would like to know new ways of using it.
Ooohh lots of good options with oregano - added it to the list!!!
Make your own oregano oil, natural antibiotic anti viral remedy
thank you Kevin!!! MORE ON HERBS PLEASE
I used thyme infused honey when I was sick with a cold. Shockingly good stuff.
Great tip!
It’s magical, right??
Thyme tea with a big glug of honey is such a treat, especially when you've got a headcold!
I drink thyme tea when I'm sick. It helps so much to loosen up the cruds ❤
LOL!!! My name is Kevin!!! If this doesn’t work, I don’t know what will. What a superbly creative move! Love it. RIP Eric indeed😂
I got such a kick out of that! 😂
Yes, poor Eric.
Yeah, that really confused me. Why is Eric wearing a shirt that says "My name is Kevin"? Who is this Kevin and why is Eric wearing his shirt?
Do try to keep up jase
@@jase_allen good one 😂
Love this! Can we work our way through Ana's whole herbals cabinet with the growing and harvesting instructions and the how to use tutorials? Definite goals here. :)
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I 1000% agree!! A lot of herbs are so vigorous in my garden using a tsp/tbsp here and there does nothing. I hate composting the abundance but these videos are amazing. Idk I could make my own infused oils for cooking and body care. Please keep this up!!!
I love how Ana explains things! Keeps it simple and straight forward.
We love thyme at our house, and cook with it often. Its essential in Caribbean cooking. A coconut milk/veggie stew, with thyme, scallions, and chili peppers is one of my all time favorite foods. It grows easy, and has some pesticide benefits as well.
My first ever Thyme just germinated TODAY! Thank you for this! So glad to see your success!
Good luck!
When I got home today I found one little baby green smol nub poking out of the soil 🥹
😂😂
Beautifully produced show - watched it all of the way through. Would be great to have more growing / cooking / medicinal combos!!
North Montana girlie here, I grow thyme in my kitchen windowsill during our harsh winters with no problems. 😊👍
Great idea. In my kitchen I put scallions with its roots in a jar with some water and just add more water as needed. If roots get slimy I rinse under filtered water but keep some of the old water in the jar. I leave most of the dried growth on as well.
@@BurnerAckman There are nasty people anywhere you go, but most Montanans only care about are you a reliable hard worker and do you have good morals. The housing situation is a sh!t show here too, but the state is working hard to rebalance those scales, the roots of this state do not have money (generational locals) and Montana recognizes the effects outside money is having on its true residents. Our outdoor growing season is short, but we're crafty peeps and have figured out ways to grow even during winter. 😁
@@BurnerAckman don't let them old ladies fool you! 🤣 A few of them might just try to go full cougar on ya! I would definitely suggest you start by looking to one of the main cities to get a feel for what you do and don't like - Missoula, Bozeman, Billings. The winters can be VERY harsh here, so I would not recommend starting in a smaller town unless/until you know you love it and can handle the sometimes -50's that we get. Winters here can last 9 months out of the year. Me personally, I f***ing love it! I love knowing all of my neighbors, the quiet, seeing the stars at night. And then I travel to fill my city cup lol.
Love the "my name is Kevin" shirt 😂
Absolutely loving your whole approach to growing and using what we grow...excellent content and excited to try all the recipes!
I love, Love, LOVE Ana and her medicinals!!! You could have an entire channel of just her videos. I feel this herbal knowledge is going to be EXTREMELY important in our future. PLEASE, more Ana!!
Okay, but those 3 recipes were so well thought out and SO GOOD! Now I need to try growing thyme this year :D
Eating local honey during the year builds up resistance to seasonal allergies. Thanks for the tips and video. Pops are on my to do list. Thanks for the tutorial Ana.
Except that it is sterilised and the pollen broken down by high temperature boiling
Thank you for this! I want to see a video about Lemon Balm and some other herbs.
Lemon balm is one of my faves!!!!
@@PNW_ana This is my first time growing herbs of any type. I went a little wild on the seed buying but that's ok.
seconding the lemon balm request!
@@tyler6147 careful with lemon balm it will overtake and compete with other herbs if planted too close!!! Lemon balm tea is great!!!
I third the lemon balm request! Lol
"This isn't gonna light on fire; its.. its in water." got a good chuckle out of me. Love these recipes! Can't wait to stock up on dried ingredients for putting together some oils in the fall.
I’ve had some questions…so just wanted to make it clear 😂
Great video. We have a lemon thyme in a thick, heavy and large, beautiful, dark earth tone design, glazed planter. It spread to the edges. It wintered over w/o protection 3 winters now. Plenty of sun. Zone 6b east coast. Tip. I used it in a potato salad, perfection but next day the mayo. I make had watered down. . The candy is a must I'll make. No joking. Thyme clears my mind.
Thanks! The recipes are amazing. I want to try propigating more of my plants.
A delicious way of using Thyme is in a gnocchi fried with butter, thyme and rosemary. Delicious recipe!
More Ana please!! Want to know all the things about the herbs!
Definitely!!!! ❤
She's great!
She's great!
She great. Does she have her own channel? Is she on CZcams?
This episode is so helpful. You can find videos of growing herbs and you can find videos on how to use them but sometimes we don’t have the time to go look for them. Having all this info together in one video is so helpful to your followers. Please make more of these!!!
You can throw an entire sprig of thyme, woody bits and all, into soups and stews. The leaves will fall off as it cooks and you can just pick the naked sprig out. Lazy. 💚
I plant thyme around the perimeter of my garden fence to help to keep groundhogs away. Since planting they no longer attempt to climb over. It’s an easy plant to maintain and propagate more plants if any die off over winter.
I just had enough time to watch this before bed. Thanks Eric! You're Epic!
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I love adding thyme to my lemon meringue pies. It adds a little bit of an unexpected earthiness to the dish which cuts through the sweetness and really elevates it into a complex dessert.
This is encouraging! I'm trying to root thyme and rosemary from the grocery store that I had leftover from making some chicken soup. It seemed like a waste to throw it out, and it did make some pretty tasty soup....
We bought a thyme start almost three years ago now. It spent most of its time in a raised be with squash and tomatoes. We had to move it to a small half barrel about 5 months ago to make room for this years garden. That thing has been a champ. It just wants to be watered and have fresh soil now at then and it just goes and goes. The little half barrel will not last long so I'll have to find a nice sunny patch to put it in somewhere.
Now I have to figure out what to do with the lavender that was only about the size of a softball when we got it, and it's grown to the point of requiring a wheel barrow to move it wherever we choose to transplant it. And the rosemary it about to outgrow it's barrel pot.
Halp 🤣
Planning on using creeping thyme to fill in the gaps between bricks in the garden to keep the weeds from taking over. Growing some in cells and direct sowing 🙌
I am loving the series with Anna and showing how to use the most of your medicinal plants
Adam is great at showing us how great thyme is
Loved this video - really enjoyed seeing the whole process from sowing to harvesting and then such great usage content from Ana. Thank you!
This is the same Kevin that showed us how to build Dragon Fruit Trellis's. Thanks Kevin . Really glad to see you're doing the Herb thing now !
LOVE THIS ❤️!!!! I can't wait to try the shortbread.
And as a lawn alternative! Creeping thyme does just that, smells great -- and elfin thyme is a tiny spreading bunch that we can walk on without feeling we're killing the little dears.
My absolute all time favorite herb. I use it in so many dishes.
Thanks Kevin! Thanks Anna, can’t wait to try the recipes 🌱 ❤️
❤❤❤Ana
The perfect thyme growing guide and thanks Anna for these fantastic recipes. I really would love to try the honey thyme lollipops.
They are so good - especially if you have a sore/scratchy throat!!
I’m in zone 4 and mine comes back every year without fail!!! I love it!
Please more Ana on the channel 🙏🏻
Does Ana have her own channel yet? I want to binge all the things!!!! ( and I forget Insta exists 😅)
Loving this form of video Kevin! Mooooore please ❤
The sword with “Plant Daddy” got me. 😂 My Thyme never does well but you’ve given me some good tips for better growth this year hopefully!
I love Ana's voice, and her recipes :)
I love the idea of spotlighting other gardeners in other zones and showing use case for different plants! Great idea to your team!
I cracked up seeing “RIP Eric” on the back of the shirt! I was not expecting that! lol! So funny!
Love this video Thank you!!!!! First of all I have such a hard keeping my herbs I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. But you’ve encouraged me to do one a my a time.
Secondly….i wish I could smell the lotion bar!! I’m going to try this!! ❤❤❤❤
Yes, yes, yes! I love getting ideas for things I can make with what I grow, especially herbs.
Excellent and very informative video. Thank you Ana and Eric
Absolutely fantastic video with wonderfully original and clearly explained recipes! Thank you!
Wonderful! More of everything please..more of Anna, more of herbs, more on cooking/baking with the garden's bounty. Great stuff, Kevin.
Wow, just in time (😄) - I bought my first thyme plant a week ago and need to learn how to take care of it. I use a lot of thyme in my daily cooking, and am interested in learning more uses!
Thank you!
Also, love the t-shirt😂😊
This was so nice! I love herbs!! I just getting into growing them. Growing tutorials would be so great. Thanks Kevin!
Love these herb videos. Thyme is the most used herb in our house. Just brought 2 more plants to add to my collection. Will definitely be giving the recipes a try 👍🏾👍🏾
Omg the T-shirt is fabulous!!!
Love Ana so much!!! All 3 recipes were amazing and I can’t wait to try them!!! I want a ton more content from Ana!🌼🌿
So kind of you!!!! There will be more!!!!
I don't currently have a garden, though it is planned for in the future. Your videos are going to be my go-to for guidance! So much information in a consumable format. Love and respect what the team does :D
I planted thyme from seed for the first time this garden season. It is thriving! I'm so thrilled! I have a tiered planter (think greenstalk) that I plan to plant all of my herbs in. Rosemary, sage, lemon balm, thyme, cumin, parsley, echinacea. I'm so happy to be gardening again!
The Ancient Greeks also used to burn Thyme in a similar way that native Americans use sage, instead of cleansing, they believe it bestowed courage. Great Video, Love the special effects!
Loved Anna's recipes. Thanks
I LOVE THIS COMPLETE GUIDE AND RECIPES!
GREAT video! I'm loving that you're incorporating other people who are also self-sufficient in not only food but everyday items as well too. Wonderful💚
Please cover more herbs. I love my lemon thyme ❤
This is a lot of good information all in one video. Its a keeper!
Hey, Kevin! Love the new video style. So happy for you, Eric 😅and team ❤ thank you
I hit that spring sale !!! So great ❤
More herb videos please !!
I LOVE THIS!!!! Please do more of these herb videos!!! I really want to get into growing my own herbs this year....#1 they taster better than store bought and they are soooooo much cheaper! Also want to learn to use more "natural" items for minor ailments. Ana is an excellent instructor and I'm going to make her items-they all look awesome! In the future, could you please include how to harvest and preserve the herbs for use over winter etc.
Me too! I have Lyme infections and am being treated with medicinal herbs after the antibiotics wrecked my gut. I want to grow a bunch of them in a back slope area that is organic. I hope these will overtake the weeds I can’t keep up with!
Excuse me, but this video is awesome! Thank you Kevin and Ana...(mostly Ana 😊)! I thoroughly enjoyed this! Ana, I am excited to try all 3 of your recipes. My allergies have been terrible so it's time to make some lollipops! I haven't done that in decades. So fun!
Thank you for the kind words!!! Allergies this time (😅) of year are brutal!!!! Would love to hear back when you make the lollipops!
@@PNW_ana Will do 👍
Thyme is my most favorite herb, excited to see people bringing light to how best to take care of it ^^
Im in zone 6b and a thyme plant I bought and left in a planter over winter is now thriving in spring, it will definitely moving to a permanent place in the garden to thrive next to my wild bergamot 🥰 love these new ideas to utilize it!
Ana, your double boiler rocks 🤪
One of my favorite herbs. Thank you for all the hints on growing it in the delicious variety of recipes.
This channel has helped me so much in my garden. You guys have such a wealth of knowledge about so many different plants. Truly appreciate your effort to continue to make new videos
I discovered lemon thyme last year, yum. I can't wait to make the gardeners bar. I LOVE the herb segments, thanks Ana.
If you can find lavender thyme - definitely try it, it’s heavenly!!!
@@PNW_ana , I sure will. Thanks.
Mountain Tea (aka thyme tea) is sold and served in Armenia as a common herb tea, even at coffee shops. It grows in the beautiful rugged mountains there. I brought some home with me in my trip there, and enjoying it so much. I need to grow my own thyme to support my habit now :) thank you for this great video. You guys do such a good job!
I have started tyme from seed but have a hard time with basil. Thank you Ana 🎉
I make honey thyme ice cream every summer. Always a big hit, even to the skeptics.
It’s an amazingly good combo!
I need that recipe lol
This is great! Do this with every herb known to man 😘
Love the idea of herbal lollipops!
Awesome video! My thyme is maybe about 2" high, and time to transplant with my other herb seedlings. I've been wondering exactly what I'll do with it all of it, but thanks to you and your crew, now I know! Thank you! 🤗🤗
I love your Simon and Garfunkel garden. I had already planned to plant one this year. Since my last frost free date is Mother’s Day, I have started things indoors.
Been binging in preparation for gardening this year! So excited for a new video ❤
I love growing thyme. I have English and Lemon. The Lemon is my fav ❤
Thanks for these great tips, Eric!
Perfect timing; this is the first year I am trying to grow this plant
Ana did a great job. I’d like to see more like this
Love love love these new combo videos!!
I need to try the lotion bar recipe and the lollipops!
I really enjoyed this segment with the "how to grow" and the recipes. I found everything very interesting especially since I always have trouble growing thyme here in Florida. So it makes me want to purchase some different kinds and try again. Thanks for all the great tips. Loved the lotion bars, so pretty
when you made this video How to Plant Citrus Trees From Start to Finish (COMPLETE GUIDE) 🍊 i got inspired to get a orange tree I've always wanted to get one
Making the lotion bar because I have an abundance of thyme 🥰
Nice, a video on 1 type of herb, AND how to use it and why. Putting this one in my tool box. TYFS "Not Eric" 😊
Fantastic video! Thanks for the ideas on how to use the thyme.
German Thyme and Creeping Thyme Grow outside Perennially in Zone 4a Sioux Falls SD they're doing well in my sisters garden
Love these kind of seed to use videos!
Love the lotion bar recipe!!!
Thanks Eric, another great video
You always have got so much useful information in your videos! Thank you!!:)
I love the challenge of growing from seed! I grew some Carolina Reaper Pepper from seeds -- that took a long time. Thanks for the video!
Love your sense of humor 😂. Thank you Kevin, I needed this today