21: Herb Basics Part 1: Basil, Dill, Cilantro, and Parsley
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Who doesn't love fresh basil, dill, cilantro, and parsley? Even if you're only growing a small kitchen or container garden, most likely you'll want to make room for a few of these. In this episode of the Beginner's Garden Podcast, I talk about my experience in growing these popular annual herbs.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net, |
| 0:06.0 | and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Welcome back to the Beginners Garden podcast. A few weeks ago, one of my listeners |
| 0:33.1 | asked me to do a podcast on growing herbs. And I have to be honest, my first thought was who am I to |
| 0:41.0 | be able to teach about growing herbs? Because there are so many people who have been doing it for so |
| 0:46.3 | much longer than I have, and I've had some hits and misses when it comes to growing herbs. |
| 0:51.8 | But the truth is, is that I do grow herbs, and for the most part, I've |
| 0:56.0 | been pretty successful. So while I may not know everything there is to know about growing |
| 1:00.6 | herbs, I do grow them, and I can at least give you some basics to get started. And if you're |
| 1:06.8 | listening to the Beginners Garden podcast, then basics is what you're looking for. |
| 1:12.0 | Originally, I had planned for this episode to go through the nine herbs that I either grow or have |
| 1:18.0 | grown in the past, but as I started preparing the information for you, I realized that that |
| 1:23.5 | would be a much longer episode than I'm accustomed to giving and that you're probably |
| 1:28.5 | accustomed to listening to. Plus, my children are now out of school for the summer, so it's |
| 1:34.2 | going to be a little bit more challenging getting these episodes to you every week, trying to |
| 1:39.0 | plan time when they are quiet, and I'll be able to do a podcast. So I decided to go ahead and just cut this one |
| 1:46.9 | a little bit short and just focus on the annual herbs that I grow. And then next week I'll be |
| 1:54.2 | bringing you the perennial herbs that I grow. And if you are a brand new beginner, an annual is a vegetable or fruit or herb that |
| 2:03.6 | completes its life cycle in one season. So it's not one that from the same plant it comes |
| 2:09.6 | back year after year after year. Compared to perennials, they will stay in the garden and they will |
| 2:15.9 | come back year after year. |
| 2:17.7 | So that's the difference between an annual and a perennial. |
| 2:20.6 | So this week we're going to be talking about the annual herbs in my garden. |
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