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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing Sweet Alyssum

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

There is a plant that I've been introduced to this year.

0:18.4

Many of you probably already know it, but for me it was my first year adding it to the

0:21.8

garden and it's just got so many different benefits.

0:24.6

It's a great thing to pop in and it's not that hard to care for.

0:28.4

In fact, you can put it in between your tomatoes next year for a nice little benefit.

0:32.8

It is a lism.

0:33.8

So it's been grown for ages in Spain in the 1500s.

0:36.7

You would find it bordering edible gardens, like I just said, or just growing wild on

0:41.3

Mediterranean beaches.

0:42.5

So they are very pretty.

0:44.6

There's a white variety I've grown.

0:46.0

I've also grown sort of a lavender or periwinkle style variety.

0:50.2

The flowers are tiny, really small, but they smell incredible.

0:56.6

It smells like sweet fresh honey is the best way that I could describe it.

1:02.1

And actually, Jacques introduced me to them.

1:03.6

My garden assistant, he has been growing it for a little bit this year.

1:07.6

I think he started in spring as a pickup between his tomatoes.

1:12.0

And I ended up putting it between my tomatoes as well as in between some of my edible raised

1:17.3

beds.

1:18.3

Let's say you're growing, I don't know, charred in a raised bed or maybe cucumbers in

1:22.6

a raised bed.

1:23.6

Great example there.

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