I misheard "basil mint" as "embezzlement." Gotta pay closer attention!

@laurienesdahl6817

14 күн бұрын

Lol

@Celeste-wx8ce

9 күн бұрын

😂

When I make a salad I add whatever mixture of herbs I have in the garden. Could be 4 or 5 kinds. Every bite is a flavour bomb. 😊

And not only in the veggie garden - so many herbs are excellent among flowers, great for hiding unsightly rose legs; they also help keep perennial roots cool in hot, dry, Med gardens. They fill gaps in the best way possible.

@Navajosun

19 күн бұрын

I was just thinking of how that would be a wonderful idea to plant amongst the flowers.

@HermitCrone

4 күн бұрын

@@Navajosunthey are pollinators, too, that draw the bees to the vegetable flowers.

As a former American who has lived here for 25 years, I find this humorous since I changed the way I say ‘herb’, pronouncing the ‘h’ now 😂 I changed since there were people who didn’t understand what I meant; it was easier to change. 😊

@CarrieLovesLife.

5 күн бұрын

As an American, I find it humorous because I grew up pronouncing it herbs with an H, and my Canadian husband convinced me I was missing pronouncing it, so now I don’t use the H. 🤣 Validation to change it back.

@Xsksnssjccxghb

4 күн бұрын

I did University in the States then transferred to the UK (from neither of those countries) I had to get made fun of twice by pronouncing it wrong in both countries. (I first learned h-erb)😢

Oh, sometimes I hate living in a cold country. It's mid June and I still have seedlings.

@TaxEvasion777

19 күн бұрын

I looked up everything that could technically overwinter in my zone for veggies and herbs and tossed those everywhere, that might help you next season to?

@lksf9820

17 күн бұрын

England?

@cpt_awesome1562

17 күн бұрын

I think we are all in the same boat 🚢

@MrCazjd

17 күн бұрын

Apparently it was the hottest may on record… I think they’re lying to us 🤥 also admitted they can control the weather!

@helenpenner9899

16 күн бұрын

I hear ya...i just finished planting out my seedlings

May i highly recommend 'Chocolate mint'. Does exactly what it says on the tin and by golly it's delicious!!! :) Defo seeking out some basil mint! :)

Love herbs. I use different types of training thyme to decorate pots around my patio - they flower beautifully. I love growing Greek (small leaf) basil in clumps like a miniature topiary. And chive flowers are just so pretty. My favourite leafy plant on my patio is a large pot of black peppermint. A cut it right back and divide it regularly and it never fails. Fabulous colour and scent, and makes good tea. I'll have to try Moroccan mint. It looks lovely. Thanks Huw.

Could you please next time write down the herbs or the botanical names when you introduce them for non-English speakers? I’ve got problems to understand some of them to look up the name in my language . That would be great.

For anyone in Australia, Midsummer herbs has a lot of really nice unusual herbs and perennials. They've had a lot of stuff I haven't been able to find elsewhere.

Blackcurrant sage sounds interesting 🌱👍

@HuwRichards

19 күн бұрын

It's amazing!

@makeupgirl8886

19 күн бұрын

does it actually taste like black currants? It's too hot to grow black currants here, but I loved the black currant jam when I was in England. We can grow sage easily, however.

@NevadaGoats

19 күн бұрын

Jekka says it tastes awful.

@juliecolbourn8232

17 күн бұрын

I would love to try this. Will have to see if the seeds can be shipped to Canada. Loved this video.

I just received my copy of The Self-Sufficiency Garden in the mail! My first garden book for my library start. Good luck this season!

I grew chervil for the first time this year. Beautiful fennel/anise-like flavor. Delicate. It bolted fairly quickly, but produces tiny daisy-like flowers that the hover flies love! So pretty. Thanks Huw! p.s. LOVE your book! What a valuable resource.

You're right, its nice to have fresh herbs growing that you can pick when you feel like. The only time I'll buy it from the grocery store is when it has roots.

Unexpectedly herbs have been one of my favorite things in my garden. Holy Basil tea/lemonade is so refreshing and medicinal.

@buckaroobonzai2909

18 күн бұрын

Yeah herbs are fun. And some things like fennel will give you a bunch of those big blue butterflies in my area.

@rainbowconnected

16 күн бұрын

Holy Basil is amazing! Homegrown is a whole other world from what you get at the store. It barely smells or tastes like the same plant.

That's the most beautiful herb garden I have seen.

Herbs really are a special group of plants. Your garden is beautiful. I'll admit that i still say it without the 'h' and I'm American. AND I'm not embarrassed. 😅😅😅😂😂😂 Thanks for sharing.

@Frazzlenodazzle

6 күн бұрын

I say it without the H also. Seems strange to say it with...

I live just a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean in the Southern US. My soil is all silt and sand and I struggle to grow a number of things. But "erbs" thrive here, and every year I add a new one to the garden. Such an easy way to add flavor and fun to my cooking, pollinators love them and they're pretty, too. Winners all around!

@VK-qo1gm

18 күн бұрын

Keep adding compost to your garden areas for veg. Even the worst soil if kept composted & mulched will produce amazing produce

@ferretart

18 күн бұрын

To add to the other comment, if you don't already, save the seeds if you DO have success with any crop! Each successful crop will keep improving and acclimatising to you specific environment and conditions :)

@still-reading

18 күн бұрын

@@VK-qo1gm That's easy to say - add more compost. Who is going to pay for it? I live alone and create very little waste. I chop and drop and compost all I can, but in areas with lots of sand and rain that material is swallowed up fast. So I save it for the important crops and otherwise grow plants more suited to my area - like herbs. I've gardened for 60 years around the US and overseas. It's not always as easy as "add more compost".

@still-reading

18 күн бұрын

@@ferretart I've saved seeds for years, it doesn't make tomatoes love sand! But thanks for acknowledging I might already be doing that. I'm a farm girl who grew up on Organic Gardening magazine and principles. But there's no one-size-fits-all in gardening, I don't think. And I believe it makes sense to focus on more of the plants that are happy in your conditions. Unless you're looking for a challenge. I'm not, I just want to enjoy my garden and get some food from it, too.

@user-xb7sj2uk4u

18 күн бұрын

Husband recently bought two lemon verbena plants and they already doubled in size. Got a herb planter with oregano, marjoram, parsley, chives and thyme. It had tarragon in it but it didn't really like the soil (or it's neighbours, position etc,) so trying to grow some french tarragon separately on its own in a pot. Lemon balm is doing nicely in it's own pot, as is a pot of sage, grown from home cut cuttings. Got a pot of bronze fennel from the farmers market a few weeks ago for which I am still trying to find a nice sunny spot. Had no luck so far growing dill successfully tho. Tho what grows will eventually be used either fresh or dried.

Good to have confirmation from the chicken!

1:42 That looks amazing. I want that black currant sage in MY garden. Has anyone in Canada got that? I'm from the Okanagan Valley in BC Canada

@Atimatimukti

6 күн бұрын

Here in Portugal it's everywhere! I have it in my farm, not sure it will survive Canadian weather ( with snow)

@deborahlittke2261

6 күн бұрын

I'm in BC too and will start the hunt!

I have a few herbs in my (western Colorado) flower bed in front of the porch: sage, mint, parsley, lemon balm, thyme, oregano…they’re pretty, useful & fragrant. Thank you for your videos & giving helpful information. Bless 🙏

You always seem to make a video at the perfect time, I have just finished laying out a new area of my garden after ripping out a good 8ft by 10ft patch of invasive and/or useless hedging that the previous house owner added. Its a little shady but gets great morning sun so is perfect for a few herbs, I already have applemint which is just beautiful to brush past, so adding a few more weirder bits here and there sounds great.

Enjoying your channel from Oregon USA!

Hi Huw, always plenty of useful hint & tips in your videos. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

I love growing a wide variety of herbs, and allowing them to flower, yerba buena mint is my favorite, the bees love my flowering herbs tremendously, Esp my oregano

I have tons of chives ... the bees favorite color is purple :) Thank you for the tour of your incredible garden!!!

Was a bit worried to see you eating the caraway that was growing right under some foxgloves, Huw. I’ve just been reading Jekka McVicar’s wonderful book 100 Herbs to Grow and she says,”A word of advice: foxgloves should not be planted next to edible plants. I once saw foxgloves underplanted with wild strawberries - the combination looked lovely but you could not eat the strawberries because the seeds of foxgloves are highly poisonous and they are so tiny that you cannot see them if they fall on the fruit.” We don’t want you making yourself very ill (or worse) through digitalis poisoning!!!

@HuwRichards

18 күн бұрын

Thank you for your worry but I have no worry personally, particularly with having better eyesight than Jekka and caraway having little seeds up in the air, not along the ground🌿

I think it was the French influence, but spelt with an "h" and we made it sound English! LOL! Super herbs you have there!

Score one for the USA! 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the shout-out, Huw. This American loves watching her Welsh gardener.

Thank you, friend, thanks to you, I can be good at this farm and your knowledge really helps everyone on this farm

It’s so cold outside that I’ll make a list of herbs to grow instead! Thank you.

I absolutely love to dehydrate our herbs also. Since they do grow so well, I find there's an abundance, so we use some now (fresh) and save some for later.

My newest obsession is bay rum, it’s bay but better 😁. The scent and flavor is magical and reminds me of a tropical Christmas. In addition to cooking with it and adding it to my big vat of herb salt, I plan on making wreaths out of it. Highly recommend!

@HuwRichards

19 күн бұрын

Oooh yay thank you another one to grow!!

@llorylloyd

19 күн бұрын

Hi can you explain tropical Christmas

@MP-js5ro

19 күн бұрын

@@llorylloydcinnamon, nutmeg, clove, with a hit of tropical flavors such as pineapple, citrus. You’ve probably smelled it before without knowing because many traditional men’s colognes are made from bay rum.

@katebettesworth2638

18 күн бұрын

​@@MP-js5rowhere can I get one?

@drekfletch

11 күн бұрын

Bay Rum is an actual plant? I thought it was a specific blend of scents. I must be off to google, thank you.

Thank y for the eating suggestions. I got your book and can’t wait to try some of the recipes!

With most annual herbs, the entire plant is edible. Trying the flowers or other part that you can’t get in stores is one of the fun pleasures of growing them yourself. I love radish pods, onion flowers, arugula flowers and seeds, and all parts of nasturtiums.

Love my Erbs! 😀

I love this! Both the subject and your herbal space. So gorgeous. I've been working on 3 modest herb gardens (culinary, tea & medicinal) within my main veg garden. My whole garden is very small by your standards but I had to carve out the space (lots of pots in play). I can't wait until they come into their own! Incidentally, caraway seeds were a challenge to find but I got them last year 😁

@judifarrington9461

19 күн бұрын

We always said "erb" too. My grandfather migrated to the US from the England/Scotland border though.

Thank you 💗

Love love love buying from Urban Herbs

You have a great sense of humor 😊

love your herb garden! This year, my favourite new-found herb is the perennial Savory (satureja montana). It's such a strong little trooper. On the other hand, my basil is really struggling this year: tiny, leathery leaves, and just sad all round. So that's going to be a very crunchy pesto...

Chive vinegar, tarragon vinegar etc are easy to make

I think the reason we pronounce herb without the h is because the word was originally a French word, and they don't pronounce the h.

I Love how you said the Americans got it right, and then go on to call it Herbs 😅 It is definitely still going to be Herbs for me too 😂

I have a blackcurrant sage, i add the leaves and flowers to teas. I can also highly recommended pineapple sage. It's delicious in an elderflower cordial or lemonade and even sweeter than the blackcurrant. My favourite of the sage's i think.

@lanetower3411

6 күн бұрын

Pineapple sage leaves are also great on pizza!

Great video, Huw!

That’s a great video. I am in Canada and I am growing lemons from seed and other fruits. My lemon tree Lola is 4 years old now and has massive thorns 6 feet tall I need to learn how to prune her. In the winter I bring her inside. I have pomegranate growing in the greenhouse and I am looking for olive trees.

Very helpful. Thanks

“Erb.” It sounds so wrong and yet so right. 😁Inspired by this video I’ve decided to buy some interesting herbs - Cola Plant, Lime Mint and Rose Thyme. Super excited! 🎉

Your garden is lush and full. I live in a high altitude plains area with a short growing season. I love gardening and listen to recommendations. Thanks for yours.

I'm rather new to gardening for myself and your channel has been very encouraging. Conventional wisdom says that once herbs grow flowers they are less tasty. I didn't know you can actually eat the flowers. I'm an at home chef and would love to learn more about this

@lanetower3411

6 күн бұрын

Onion, arugula, cilantro and radish flowers are all delicious. Normally we feel bad when these bolt, but this is one perk. Radish seed pods are like spicy little snap peas.

Thank you for this video and your explanations regarding herbs. I finally got your latest book and I am so happy I preordered it. It is a very good book and delivers all the information I was hoping for. Thank you 🙏🏻

@HuwRichards

19 күн бұрын

Ahh that's so kind of you thank you so much!!

I'm American but Ive always said "erb "! Now if a man's named HERB I say Hhhurb. Haha. That's one of those topics never solved!

@K1ngConnor

18 күн бұрын

That’s a very interesting point. I’ve never heard anyone talk about how Americans do that before.

Wonderful video - I find that sage self-sows quite readily. But I will now look for the black currant sage and try that in Toronto.

I turned one of my large flower beds into a herb garden last year and it looks amazing and tastes amazing too. Only problem was I planted a small plant called Angelica to fill a little gap at the end…..schoolboy error!!!!! 😂

That red flowered sage you have, l also have it in my garden and bees love it, as do hummingbird hawk moths. I love it!

This is an amazing video! I just discovered that the huge ornamental sages I have yields tasty flowers! Plus a basil mint! Never heard of that one. Such a beautiful, lush herb garden! I also found it interesting that foxgloves are interspersed around the garden. I have a choir of foxgloves, but separated from my vegetable plants. I had wondered if the toxicity from their roots would be absorbed by the veggies.

Herbs and a compost pile are the two projects that I think all n00b gardeners should start with. I don't compost myself, but thats only because I am renting and I also just don't have anything to compost. I also live in one of the regions of the world that has legendary soil. I'll let you guess where.

This is beautiful and the foxgloves are beautiful.

Hi huw love your videos and love you books to are you and sam going to do a audible of the self-sufficient garden like you did for grow food for free listening to it every year to get ideas

Hi. Two things - lemon verbena isn't frost hardy, so I grow in pots and bring them into the greenhouse in winter. Also, any tips on controlling mint rust - mine always start lush and green, then later in the season, they get orangy leaves and are sickly?

Literally went outside when watching the video to propergate my Moroccan mint been meaning to do it for weeks

I love pineapple sage, its hard to find some years as its an annual where I am in zone 5, but its amazing.

Fennel is a weed in my garden

Sages are really excellent on pizza. Smoky flavor pairs really well. I hate pineapple on pizza but pineapple sage is fantastic. My pineapple sage plant is a perennial beast. Makes a good tea too.

@deborahlittke2261

6 күн бұрын

There are now two baby pineapple sage plants on the deck here. I put them there for the hummingbirds.

Richters herbs in Ontario is a good source in Canada

@juliecolbourn8232

17 күн бұрын

Thanks for this. I live in northern Ontario and just looked them up. They have some very interesting things.

Urban herbs are awesome

Great video! I would like to know how to use more of these herbs in meals. It’s a bit intimidating to get started or try things… not my usual feelings towards the food I grow but herbs somehow confuse me a bit. I’d love to see how you store and use these herbs. Thank you!

Thank you. I'm glad to see you educate everyone one the correct pronunciation (and the explanation for the other).

So many amazing and weird erbs!

Hi can you show us how to take cutting from sage. I can’t seem to get mine to take. Tx

Hot and Spicy oregano is great. Is that Hot Lips Salvia? 😍🤩 I just came across this. American who has worked in the herb dept of my local owned garden center..

@mollymcnaughton3133

17 күн бұрын

I say "Erbs", no "H", and have all my life..🤔

watering video

haha I thought that was my chicken I heard

I planted three Vietnamese corianders in with some climbers in pots and just moved them to their own space as they were getting so big. I'm not sure how to use it in the kitchen...

An old, mild insult from my childhood was potherb, and it was pronunced "pot'erb"😅

Language evolves. Yes Brits used to say “erb”, but the language evolved over time to the current and correct “herb”. Americans just evolved backwards to an old form …

Very helpful would be a video showing what beneficial vs harmful insects in the garden to look out for. I hear names like hover fly and beneficial wasp, but am not really sure what I'm looking for.

@HuwRichards

18 күн бұрын

No problem! In the meantime you can Google those :)

Might be a stupid question, do you think you could grow carraway as a long term cover crop, at least in it's first year?

{{ Nerdiness }} - American English is closer to the English used prior to the 19th Century than most English dialects. Even down to their overuse of the letter Z.

4:00 Hi Huw you mentioned Hover Flys..... I don't want to attract them...... my garden is full of them all near the hedges (with me and hedge trimmer I'm almost a liability) 🤣

I'm a little disappointed in myself for how much I liked hearing "the Americans are right"

@HuwRichards

19 күн бұрын

Hahahaha I don't say it often so make the most of it;)

@holly1391

19 күн бұрын

😂😂😂I am American, loved it🥰

@j.n.sloane

19 күн бұрын

Yes, I'm still waiting for my British friends to stop teasing me over how I pronounce "dahlia". They pronounce it with a long "a". Freaky.

@linedezainde

19 күн бұрын

French Canadian here and I say the H in herbs, probably because it is also pronounced in French. Now wondering if I am right! lol... perhaps watching too many UK gardening shows! I even started saying "spot on"!!!

@shelleygoetchius231

19 күн бұрын

Once in a while we get something right!😂

Can we get a shout out to savory and chervil

What about horses, happy and hill?

I will forever be in denial that herb should be erb…

Is that a Ming fern at 8:28 ?

I give my soft herbs a nitrogen feed in spring. Guarantees masses to harvest. 😊

I have unable to find black currant sage seeds. Does anyone know where I can purchase them. I'm afraid plants might not survive shipping to Alabama.

I'm not sure you have enough mint 🍃🌿

I’m an Aussie. So let’s not bang on about herbs and erbs and just get on with gardening.

My blackcurrant sage died this winter 😢

💙💙💙

Yes but is it or-reg-a-no? Or ori-gone-o? Cilantro or Coriander? Bah-sil or bay-sil?

🌻🐛🌿💚🙏

Next step is getting you guys to pronounce Jalapeño correctly 😉

@BlessingsfromNorthIdaho

19 күн бұрын

lol. True story. 😂

@katebettesworth2638

18 күн бұрын

I maybe a Brit but I can pronounce jalapeño properly. I speak a little Spanish 😉

words change over time and per lusiau is an herb by any other name

No Huw don't let them win :'( 🏴‍☠

I’ve always said ‘erbs for the green flavor bombs and Herb for the man’s name. However I’m in California so not held to US standards😉

Best sage! Nit that other dreadful tasting normal sage!

Very funny about us Americans!

Thanks from Texas USA but my issue isn't erb or herb. Tell me how you say aluminum (a lu min um) and pronounce it (a lu mini um) 😂 and really no one is incorrect in pronunciation due to their location. But if there's anything more annoying is aluminum. 🙄

@cecilialind9474

19 күн бұрын

British English spells it aluminium, not aluminum, hence the pronunciation 😀Same spelling in Swedish, German and French.

@boerwolf2326

19 күн бұрын

Separated by a common language, and an enormous pond :)