If you have a bumper crop of herbs and want to experiment with your own spices, this video will show you a simple way to harvest, prepare, and dehydrate herbs. You can mix them into your own spice blends, or preserve them as-is to use for cooking.
00:00 – Intro
00:51 – Herb Harvest Tips
01:54 – Harvest Montage
02:42 – Ginger & Tumeric Harvest
03:33 – Lemon Grass
04:37 – Prepping For Dehydration
08:21 – Loading The Excalibur
10:45 – Grinding Herbs
12:35 – Outro
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Thanks to Excalibur for sponsoring! Here's the exact dehydrator I have: https://bit.ly/3BKKzD1
Lemongrass means a completely different thing in my country.
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I dehydrated my extra jalapenos and chili peppers this year, and ground them up into a fine, extra spicy powder that adds some POP to any dish!
Interesting. Thank you
LOVE this!
We love our Excalibur dehydrator! My husband made a bunch of chili powder this year. I plan on doing a lot more herbs next year after finding out many types that we commonly use have heavy metals in them. Growing our own seems a lot safer.
Where is the best place to put my herb garden? I live in zone 7 with extremely hot humid summers and am concerned with my herb garden getting scorched.
Great video, I dehydrate my basil, thyme from my aerogarden indoors during winter and my chives from the outdoor garden. I do the same with my morel mushrooms. They will keep for many years in a Mason jar
I got into dehydrating this year, it’s addictive. I dehydrated fruits, tomato peels, citrus and rinds, herbs, greens, squash and whatever else I had in my garden. A really good YouTube video on how to dry all types of foods is Purposeful Pantry. This is a great starter video.
How long does rosemary take to dry by hanging?
My dehydrator is called "the car". just put it in a tray on a 95 degree summer day and 12 hours later, you've got dried herbs without all the electricity cost of a dehydrator. and the fresh scent of herbs in your car as a bonus too!
Love my Cosori dehydrator! I am currently dehydrating a bumper crop of Italian parsley. I run my dehydrator in my house. Running it in a garage will draw dust/dirt into the unit and contaminate your dehydrated herbs.
I use my sauna to do it. Lemongrass and turmeric are used in curries. It's summer where i am so i just planted san marzano tomatoes and they're doing well.
For the first time I dehydrated green onions and made into a powder. Have you ever tried doing that?
Morning 🙂 Nice video. I have a question that has been bumping about in my head and I haven't seen any channel really address it (maybe there is no good solution). Plant Markers: I think many gardeners would agree that it doesn't seem to matter what we use plastic, wood…. nor what marker we use. They fade, smear, wash off during the season making it frustrating to remember what is where. Any suggestions?
Kevin, I typically allow my herbs to air/hang dry and that works out fine with the oregano and thyme. The rosemary and basil turn dark, and while they are still very flavorful they are not the nicest looking. I guess the dehydrator makes all the difference in terms of color – but what about flavor/taste? Have you noticed a difference?
Great vid. What kind of herb grinder is that?
#Husbandgoals this is absolutely amazing. I love just watching his videos for the education
Do you practice no-till?
Realizing that root-based crops, such as turmeric, can be tricky, or impossible, to manage completely as no-till, the theory still applies. For example, grow turmeric, harvest, re-amend, plant a winter cover crop and let it ride until ready to replant with something that doesn't require tilling and counters the npk strain from the previous crop. Wash-rinse-repeat.
Thank you for your lovely video and for continuing to show people how wonderful and versatile herbs can be. We need more herb champions! I've had a love affair with herbs for many years–not just for their use in cooking, but for their amazing nutritional, medicinal and practical applications. My chickens & bees love them too. I'd never be without my herbs dotted all around my garden. I like to dry them and then keep them whole in named paper bags. They're stored in a cupboard in the middle of the house, where the temperature stays constant all year round. If I haven't used the last of my herbs from the previous year when I'm ready to harvest again, they go on the compost heap.
Hi Kevin! I wanted to point out that the square Excalibur trays fit perfectly over a standard kitchen sink. So it allows you to rinse off your produce and drain them right on the tray over your sink. Works great for really watery things like tomatoes! It's so convenient that I got rid of my old round dehydrator!
Excellent explanations! Thanks so much!!!