What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're talking about a popular herb

that we can grow in the garden. I'm not sure if I've ever shared it

on the show before but it's very common and of course we're talking about

oregano, oregano native to the Mediterranean, native to Eurasia, and it really likes to grow in rocky soil, pretty unimproved, right?

This is a good thing. That means that we can grow it in our gardens in a way that is pretty low maintenance.

It used to be a single species, but it's now been cultivated around the world.

There's millions, not millions millions there's several different varieties and you know it's just a really fun

plant to grow you can get creeping varieties that could even fill garden pathways and you sort of have a semi-edible pathway and

there's just a lot of different ways to use it. I'm no herbalist but I know that

herbalists certainly have many, many different ways to use it. I mostly just use it in the kitchen.

Regano is also known as Wild Margarum, and it belongs to the Mint family.

It's going to grow in zones 5 to 10 10 and you can even grow it in zones 4.

So I would say every single one of you is able to grow oregano.

Now the best way is probably to propagate it from cuttings of an existing plant or buy starts at a nursery,

but you can start it from seeds and it's not that much more difficult. It just takes a little bit more time.

Another way to grow it is to just propagate it by division.

So you grab your hoary-hory or your spade and just chop a chunk off,

plant that chunk and that'll start creeping as well.

And then you can go ahead and keep

spreading that out if you want to or you can limit it to a certain area.

What I would do is I would plant it and then I would let it grow to about four to six inches or so and then you can let it bush up.

So you want to harvest and pinch off kind of in a similar way that you would grow basil, right?

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