308 - Growing Kitchen Herbs: 5 Most Common Beginner Mistakes & How to Successfully Grow a Kitchen Herb Garden

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Are you wanting to grow your own herbs to use in your kitchen but don't know where to get started? Today we're going to dive into 5 beginner mistakes that you can avoid and how you can successfully grow a kitchen herb garden

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0:00.0	Hey there and welcome back to the podcast. So glad you clicked play today. We're going to be talking
0:05.3	about five beginner mistakes in growing herbs and how you can prevent them to grow a successful
0:12.0	kitchen herb garden. First, let me tell you a quick story though, because I think that you'll really
0:16.9	get a picture of what is possible in your garden and by extension in your kitchen.
0:23.6	Last night I was making a spaghetti meatball baked type of thing. I'm not a cook, but I've found a
0:31.7	recipe randomly that my whole family likes. Well, I was trying to convert some of my tomato
0:36.7	sauce that I'd can from last year to
0:38.4	a spaghetti sauce because we'd run out of the spaghetti sauce that I canned last year. I looked up a
0:43.6	recipe online just to figure out what herbs and spices I could add to the sauce. And of course,
0:49.1	I had pretty much everything it required. I made a few adjustments. But as I was going through my pantry,
0:56.7	I was picking out dried basil, dried marjoram, some other things. And then it called for oregano.
1:02.8	And I ran out of dried oregano, but oregano overwinter's. So I just walked outside and I picked
1:08.1	some oregano from my patio herb garden and chopped it up, put it in the sauce.
1:13.6	It tasted delicious.
1:15.7	But it wasn't lost on me that nothing I used in that blend last night was anything I had
1:21.9	bought from the grocery store.
1:23.5	All of it came from my garden.
1:25.7	And that's the way that almost all the herbs that I grow have been
1:30.7	for a long time. It's been a while since I've purchased any of the herbs that I grow in my garden
1:36.5	at the grocery store. Now, this may not come as a surprise to you because if you've listened to the
1:41.4	podcast for any length of time, you know that I try to grow
1:44.7	a year's worth of as many things as I can in my garden. I have a large garden. It takes a lot of work.
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