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I get a joy in my heart when I'm cooking dinner, and the thought pops into my head, "This dish could use a little bit of thyme! (or whatever herb it might be)" I run outside to the backyard, happy as a clam, and pull off what I need from the herb garden. It's so much fun cooking like that.
I just punched "how to grow herbs" into the youtube search bar and clicked on the top video without checking which channel uploaded it. Then, once that piano riff played and I heard chef johns voice chime in, i got the biggest smile on my face!!!!! Love this channel, and silly me for not checking food wishes for a herb-growing video first! thanks again chef john!
Personally I don't care for a diet consisting totally of raw foods, so I'd rather have a kitchen, too. Somewhere between the library and garden will do.
Pro tip: keep the mint far far far away from the other plants and in their own separate soil. They are incredibly invasive and will overtake all other plants if given the opportunity. Also, if you live in a climate with a cold winter (so, you know, not California), you can always bring these plants inside during the cold seasons so that they last for years. I've had rosemary growing outdoors in the summers and indoors during the winters for the past few years, and it brings such amazing warmth and vibrancy to my kitchen during those dreary months.
@@rayray8389 Suggestion for keeping away bugs on your herbs: 20 drops of peppermint oil and/or rosemary, 5 drops of dish detergent and a gallon of water. Early in the morning, spray your mixture on your herbs weekly or as needed.
Everyone has a television show or RU-vid channel to tell you they’re the greatest cook and that you should strive to be like them, but as far as I know Chef John is the only one who had sense enough to step out of the kitchen and do a culinary garden show! Kudos to Chef John!
OMG i was just googling how to do this because i've been learning basically all my cooking from you and i'm sick of buying herbs / supermarket herb plants dying - didn't expect you to have a video of this HAHA thank you so much!! this is SO helpful!
Thank you for putting together a tight, professional video. It held my attention and gave me perfect amount of information. (I went through several videos prior. So I appreciate you saving my time and cutting to the chase.)
angelo karl canaleta - You're obviously a gardener. Agreed. But I like this guy for his cooking. I'll forgive him for propagating gardening myths. And this one is minor.
I agree! I am originally from a farm. So, I like gardening a lot. Once, I bought some heirloom tomatoes from a Safeway grocery store. I kept some of the seeds from the tomatoes. Later on, I remembered I had them. I planted them. They got really tall. In my area of Canada, we have a growing season from May to around September ( if it doesn't snow like it did in early May, before getting hot ), it is ample time to get a good garden. I have an east facing window, so I can also plant things like basil, oregano and rosemary inside.
Dwayne Wladyka Sounds wonderful! I love having fresh herbs around and it's great you can grow them inside. Our growing season is similar, May until around early October.I grow lettuce and other herbs indoors during the cold months.
Beautiful garden, Chef John! I see why people in Florida grow their herbs inside, because unlike San Francisco, we get tons of rain in the summer, so those herbs you say don't like a lot of water would get wayyyyyy too much!
Right you are Laura. And beyond the excessive moisture, high levels of rainfall can also quickly leach soils of valuable nutrients. So you're constantly needing to augment the soil!
If anyone is interested, I grew chocolate mint last year. It was amazing and made great mint juleps. Had a subtle, yet very clear chocolate taste to it - pretty cool.
Your herb tutorial was just the push I needed to start this. I love sorrel, especially with sautéed scallops, but it's very difficult to find so I'm going to try growing my own. I purchased the Greek oregano at a local nursery and the plant's scent is stronger than what I usually end up buying at Whole Foods (Italian oregano). Can wait to try it in a recipe. Thanks!
Yours is my favorite subscription. I cannot believe you do this for free. Would love to see you have a cooking show on television. You have so much knowledge to share. You are truly talented in cooking AND in delivering your message.
Ba ha ha ha!! "Italian in the front, Greek in the back" - you never fail to make me laugh. Thanks for providing a great tutorial along with some great herbal entertainment. Keep herb scaping Chef, it's the right thing to do ;-)
I've come to this channel for recipes for many years, so imagine my pleasant surprise when searching on RU-vid to start an herb garden and there you are again! Thank you for all the help over the years, Chef John!
This is how my mom taught me! A fun lil update: horticultural studies have shown that adding rocks to improve drainage is actually counterproductive. It causes moisture to pool above the rock layer when viewed from the side, reducing the amount of available soil and slowing drainage.
I have always heard that herbs are so easy to grow. I have never been able to grow them. Now I know why, I love them to death with water! I'am going to give it a try again! Thanks!
Great looking herb container and pretty clay pots. Just to note that herbs like chives and especially basil still do require good amount of fertiliser and they do need alkaline soil to thrive, basil especially thrives better if it's potted with rich but well draining soil. Mint needs moist environment and it's better to be left in a part shade (morning sun and afternoon shade).
This is the first year I plant a garden and I'm LOVIN' IT! I have basil and last week I made pesto which turned out delicious I just had it with ravioli last night for dinner. It makes a difference when you just go outside to get the herbs you need.
Right on Linda! One of the best crops to grow. Space-friendly and low maintenance... But more importantly, nothing beats fresh herbs. The stuff you get at the grocery store is already 2-3 days old before you take it home! With your own herbs, you can just snip off what you want for that particular meal and carry on!
You picked some very nice herbs there! I like to plant my perennials in separate containers because they grow so fast and get root bound very quickly. It looks like , you gave them a very good temporary home. Your containers look so nice! I want to do another video soon on tips for container gardens. :) I just added Cuban Oregano I can't wait to use it to cook pork for a sandwich.
Cool! Some varieties of mint can be invasive and "competitive" with each other, so have that in mind when planting them, better have them in an individual pot! Also, when cutting the tips of the plants, if you're not using them right away, you can place them in a glass with water under the sun, it depends on the plant but after a few days or couple of weeks they'll start growing roots and be ready to plant :)
Thank you SO much for doing this video, Chef John! I recently started my own little herb pot :) A couple of questions: 1) How do you store the fresh herbs if you're not ready to use them? 2) How do you keep cilantro from dying? [mine died]
***** Hi! I like to store my herbs in a glass on my window sill. However, some of the soft herbs like cilantro, dill, and chervil do best when washed, wrapped loosely in a paper towel, put in a plastic bag and stored in the produce drawer of your refrigerator. Cilantro is an herb which MUST be planted by seed every 2 weeks to use it regularly (continuous harvest). It does not last long and will quickly "bolt" and go to seed. You will notice the leaves get very small and it begins stretching up through the center. It will produce flowers next. After it produces flowers, it will produce seed (tiny green balls). They will turn brown and then you harvest it, let it dry. Guess what you have? Dried Coriander! This is what you buy when you purchase ground coriander in the market in the US. Happy Gardening! :) I will upload a video on how to grow Cilantro very soon. It is one of my favorite herbs.
Rainbow Gardens wow--thanks! Yeah, my cilantro looked somewhat perky when I planted it, but then quickly fell flat and then went squishy and brown. Ew. heh. And you know it may be a regional thing or something to do with our humidity here in Alabama [?] because all the cilantro I've seen for sale around here was lanky looking or lying brown in the dirt like mine. p.s. I'll be on the lookout for your video!
***** Great! I am from Georgia and now reside in North Carolina. Cilantro does not like the heat of the south. My advice (until I get the video compiled) buy a pack of cilantro seed and observe your yard during the heat of the day. Look for an area which only receives about 3 hours of direct sun and plant some seeds there. Water every other day for about 2 weeks and they will pop up! Repeat and plant some more seed when they pop up and just continue until late November. :)
Rainbow Gardens Thank you so much! I'll try starting them from seeds and see how they do :) ...I subscribed to your channel. Looks very nice and informative and your recipes look awesome!
***** I would honestly think he's saying how well developed Italian women are in the front and Greek women in the back. Either that or my minds in the gutter.
This was the most informative herb garden video I've come across for someone who's a complete newbie to gardening. You answered all my questions throughout the video, like drainage, soil, sunlight, crowding, etc. Saving this for the near future, thank you!
I made one of these and placed it on a lazy susan for inside the kitchen (that has plenty of sun). Such a treat to have fresh herbs at your fingertips!
my mom planted chives at my house like 5-6 years ago and they spread so quickly to other parts of her garden and they always come back. chives are super resilient (and i live in wisconsin!)
You inspire me to eat well, cook my own yummy stuff, and to garden properly. You are the source of so many good things. Please keep sharing your fabulous ideas!
Chef John, when you water your plants to you sing "oh my darlin', oh my darlin lemon thyme"? I know... leaf the jokes to you. See what I did there :) Great video sir, thank you!
Must -Haves Plant Suggestions: Thyme,Chives, parsley,sage, oregano, rosemary, basil, mint Tools: Planting mix, planting pots, Tips: plant herbs pots with broken pottery and stones under soil to improve drainage.
I cracked up at "Italian in the front, creek on the back, Italian in the front, creek on the back" so happy i came across your channel I love herbs as much too. Wish me luck!!!
I just got a beautiful selection of culinary herbs for Mother's Day and now after watching your video I know just eat to do to care for them. Thank you!!
I am totally doing this now. They are beautiful. Sage, Thyme, Basil, Rosemary. Got them 3 1/2" baby plastic pots. ($3.00 a pot) Geeez they grow ASAP if your give them an hour or two of sunlight; of course, water everyday. They are in my apartment window. Good cooking! FREE Also, I leave my herbs in my window kitchen. The breeze blows through my window herbs....the fragrance wafts through my place. It's relaxing. I feel proud. Trying to get Chives.
Love picking fresh herbs from the garden. Mint of any kind will take over your whole garden if it busts out of its pot, which it can and did to me! And when chives start to flower they look beautiful but will easily self sow and grow almost anywhere, however you can grab the heads off when they start to fade, dry them out and plant the seeds whre you want them. I've also found oregano self-sown where I didn't want it. Sadly it's too cold where I live to grow basil outdoors.
I planted my rosemary bush about three years ago in a raised bed garden, and use it all year long. It's time to replace some of the other plants, like my oregano and thyme and parsley, and the basil is almost ready to go out into its spots, but in a raised bed, I get about two years out of each plant before I need to replace them. Except for the rosemary; that thing just keeps growing and smells so good. Love that plant.
My little boy and I have been growing the same herb garden for years. Thyme and rosemary (and strawberries) will keep indefinitely. While our parsley and chives drop seeds and regrow in spring. For everything else we buy a packet of seeds for a buck and just chuck em in the soil every spring. Low maintenance and way way cheaper than buying a clamshell of thyme for $3 when you only ever need like 5 sprigs at most.
Oh my gosh! Is there anything you CAN’T do?! These are great tips for a newbie culinary herb gardener. So tired of feeling guilty about all the single-use plastic involved with buying fresh herbs from the grocery store. It’s time to start my own garden, dangit! I love the taste of fresh herbs. They elevate every dish they are in. Thank you so much for this information, Chef John!
