So what the crop everyone welcome back to the epic gardening

podcast Thai edition we are doing some Thai gardening essentials my dear friend supani from supanihassaf Thai She's taught me a lot about both gardening, cooking, and just the world of, you know, Thai

gardening. So some things that I think are essential now in a Thai garden.

I'm going to go over those right now. First of all, the obvious one would be Thai basil.

Even if you don't like the flavor, it's a fantastic looking variety of basil and it smells

amazing, but you can also grow lemon basil, which is a great one for a Thai garden.

Then you have your Thai chilies. I'm growing Thai giant hot chilies right now in a

hundred gallon grow bag, which is massive. It's like a garden in a 100 gallon grow bag which is massive it's like a garden in a bag and they're doing

really well they produce like crazy the chilies are very small but they're very prolific

and excuse me and prolific and they are quite hot. So if you're not so much of a spice

tolerant person like myself you might have a hard time growing them or at

least stomaching them but I still grow

them and I probably will do a taste test and I will suffer the consequences and that's

just how my life's going to play out. Next you have the world of root crops so ginger ginger, turmeric, and also galangal, which is a Thai style of

ginger. These actually really aren't root crops. You're growing what's known as the rhizome, which is an

underground buried stem, but for the purposes of the kitchen,

we sort of put it in the world of root crops because it is under the ground.

All of these grow very similarly.

I have a really in-depth detailed guide on growing ginger on my

YouTube channel, which you can check out. You can sprout it from Storebot ginger, but at the same time,

sometimes it's nice to buy a ginger plant and then just go because you've saved

yourself quite a bit of time that way. But those are all fantastic and all essential in a Thai

...