I’ve been wanting to do a dedicated herb video for a while as they have quickly become a core element in my garden, brining me a whole host of fantastic benefits, some of them being a complete surprise. This video covers the reasons why I’m growing 10 times more herbs this year with the hope of inspiring you to consider growing more herbs too. They are so easy, resilient and delicious to grow and are the perfect crop for small space vegetable gardens too.
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Introduction 0:00
Potential & Fresh Flavour 0:32
Herb Seeds for Eating 1:54
Herbs can grow anywhere 2:50
Growing Herbs for Pollinators 3:30
Using Herbs to Help Other Crops 4:36
How to grow herbs 6:49
Final words 8:08
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The more you grow the more thinning and pruning the more yummy stuff for composting. We've had pest, heat and storm damage but no waist just awesome ingredients for what should be fall winter mulching/feeding. Annual herbs make beautiful under stories and interplanting. In my climate parsley and cilantro work a lot better interplanted and a lil shaded. I've been trying for a couple years to figure out which perennial herbs work in my area and are beneficial and safe?¿ (some are invasive, some parts are poison. I have a small space, small children and pets) and that I like n use. Mint has gone crazy after a couple years. The moment I thought it had all died off bushes sprouted up everywhere. Now I know why everyone says to keep it potted. I knew I just never knew how real it can get. Everyone gets mint runners!!!!
I have a small garden and regularly pop in herbs in spaces. I also have a lot of self seeded borage which I leave and either cut back or remove when it is in the way. After watching your video on fermented plant juice yesterday I started one with banana skins and another with borage. Alas I have no stinging nettle and none nearby. Juiced 2.5 kilos of lemons yesterday to freeze for cooking. Wondering if I could make a ferment from the pulp/skins to use on my blueberries.
Many of those annual herbs self-seed in my garden so I don't need to worry about them.
The FPJ is great for all the garden. I wish I could find an online list of the plant's contents.
I've not been able to read the book yet and hope there's lots of info in there.
Great video Huw
Awesome! I've got right into tea garden herbs this year. Love being able to go out a pick a pot of tea!
Another bonus is the money saving. Here in Australia the price of fresh herbs is ridiculous. Growing them yourself saves you a fortune.
Thank you for sharing with us Huw
This is my second herb bed..its doubled..as a wildflower garden to the pollinators..and the harvest.. I love him more..that he touched on this.. and food prep and saving seeds.. what a interesting plant amendments
So nice to have fresh, home grown herbs at hand. Makes all the difference to cooking.
Hello Huw, thank you for this video, it is absolutely inspriring. I thought I might be too late to saw, but I am going to try it. Hope it isn't too dry here (Portugal) at the moment, but it should be worth a try. Thank you very much.
Thanks huw. Sow little and often. I’ll do that. Our herbs bolt at such a quick rate here in aus due to the heat.
Nice garden, Thanks for sharing
Olá! Estou aprendendo inglês, e amo plantar, descobri um jeito de aprender através dos seus vídeos, consigo compreender o seu sotaque! Obrigada!
Please do cooking videos!!
I'm really sick what book would you recommend on how to make organic soil/compost? I wish to learn to heal myself through plants. I need a comprehensive guide with simple language.
How much space do you need to grow food for one person all year, and not buy any food at all at the grocery store?
I started using dill in my cooking and it's awesome.
Fabulous video. Thanks from New Zealand.!!
2:34 fresh Coriander seeds… I wish I could preserve the taste, because the time to enjoy is so short. I am looking forward to find some in my garden soon. <3
Fenugreek (for aromatic seed or dried leaves) germinates in cool soil and is a nitrogen fixer.
fantastic video, and resource as a channel
Thank you for sharing this info! I'm watching this kinda late and here it's already very cold, so seeing the warm summerlike garden makes me happy. I love your videos.
By the way, I don't mean to insult you. I know you are a real professional and have done gardening way longer than me. But I'm studying gardening right now and I happened to notice that when you sowed seeds in this video, you sowed them very deep. I have learned that the seeds should be sowed max. 3 times deep. For example cucumber is around 3 mm, it's sowed max. 9mm deep.
Maybe you had a reason to sow the seeds so deep? I'm ignorant. But that's why I'm learning!
Again, thank you so much! I'm humbled to be able to learn gardening in school but also during my spare time.
We only have the smallest area up the sunny end of our driveway (we live IN the woods so do not get enough sunshine) ..Italian parsley keeps on giving each year and we nearly have a whole hedge of it in one area, were lucky that a tiny Rosemary plant and other herbs were in..now we have the hugest Bush of Rosemary (love to put some flowers in salads as they taste amazing) and we actually got our very first bunch of Lady Fingers Bananas and they were so tasty ..love to let things like Dandelions and Oxallis?? grow because the Bees love them and so do I ..so happy when the Neighbours Grape decided to grow over our side of the fence too ..Forget-me-knots grow through everything and even Freesias …so it is a happy little Garden for us and the Bees ..love to be able to grab something for our meals …makes us feel connected to the Earth xx from new Zealand x ps I was pointing out the Bananas to Twin 2year old boys and a BEE actually landed on my hand and looked at me… we all laughed …makes me so JOYful!