How to Grow Loads of Organic Thyme (and More Herbs) in Your Garden)

Are you trying to find more time? Well, I got you covered in this video. My name is Nicole Burke, and I'm the founder of Rooted Garden and the owner of Gardenary, and I'm on a mission to bring back the kitchen garden. The kitchen garden is kind of like this. It's a garden outside your home where you grow herbs and vegetables and fruit, all for use every day inside, you guessed it, the kitchen. Today I want to talk about thyme. Not the thyme like this kind of thyme on your watch, but thyme in the garden. T-H-Y-M-E. Thyme is a really fun herb to start growing in the garden, even if you don't like necessarily want to eat it. It's so good for a filler in the garden, and the cool thing is the flowers on the thyme attract the bees, which is something you definitely want to do if you're trying to grow tomatoes and cucumbers and fruiting things. Thyme is in the mint family, and it is so hearty. I grow thyme like a weed in my Houston gardens that our company, Rooted Garden, cares for. Thyme there grows literally year-round. If you're in an area that doesn't have heavy frost in the winter, you can have thyme, fresh thyme, all year long. In this area that I'm living in now, in the Chicago area, we get loads of thyme during the summer, the spring, and the fall, and our thyme in the garden is the very last herb to die back in the winter. So even after lots of frost, the thyme was still producing, or at least just kind of hanging on in the garden, and then during all the snow and the frost, the thyme went under, obviously, but would you believe after the frost cleared and the soil got warm again, the thyme was the very first herb to come back. That's right, so thyme is a perennial, which means it will come back season after season. So once you've planted it once, you're gonna have a lot more thyme for like the rest of your life. Isn't that awesome? I think it's awesome. So I used to tell people that I first learned to garden by growing salad, and that's kind of true, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized I actually learned to garden by growing things like thyme, growing herbs, because herbs honestly are the simplest way to start gardening, and they're the best, I think, because of things like the perennial nature of thyme. Herbs are super expensive from the grocery store if you buy them local and organic or just organic, and you can get a load of them out of a small space in your kitchen garden. So recently, I developed a new course called the Herb Garden Guide, and if you want more thyme and basil and oregano and rosemary and mint and cilantro and dill and all that stuff in your life, then you got to check it out at Gardenary.com. There's all kinds of resources to teach you more about growing your own herbs, and I'd love to see you inside the Herb Garden Guide course. You're going to learn all you need to know to start gardening, and you don't have to have a huge garden like this to grow herbs. You can grow them in pots and small containers right on your back patio or porch or whatever you got. So I hope that you'll join me and find some more thyme and oregano and all that other yummy stuff inside the Herb Garden Guide. In the meantime, let me know your questions, your comments, what you think about my tips on growing thyme in your own garden. I'd love to know what questions you have or if you've had difficulty growing thyme yourself. I'd love to help you out. I'm Nicole Burke. I'm so thankful for you bringing back the kitchen garden with me, and I'll see you next time. That was a good pun, don't you think? Next time. You get it? Thyme. I know. We haven't got time for this. It's okay. Thanks for watching.