We don't add salt to our food in the Sandemp household, not when cooking or after just before eating. That doesn't mean we like our food bland, quite the opposite, we love food that is bursting with flavour, the more the better. To ensure that our food tastes wonderful, but doesn't contain heart-attack inducing salt, we use herbs, lots and lots of herbs, and to ensure we get the maximum flavour from those herbs, we grow them ourselves. One of our herb staples has to be thyme, in various forms, I have three different varieties of thyme growing in the garden, each has it's own distinct scent, taste and look, but all three are wonderful plants. There are literally hundreds .  Read the complete review

Recently I have done a few reviews on some of the herbs that we have growing in our garden, that even I, who am not green fingered at all, have managed to have a part in, both in the upkeep and the cooking. As well as growing chives and mint, another herb that we have every year is thyme, and part of the reason I particulary love this herb is that when the fresh herb itself is finished, you can dry it out and it will keep you with a supply of thyme the rest of the year. Like other herbs, there are several varieties to choose from including orange thyme, lemon thyme as well as the common or garden thyme, which is what we grow. This is a popular variety to ...  Read the complete review

Thyme is an aromatic, perennial, many branched ground shrub that will grow to about 12" It has small almost stalkless leaves and in mid-summer it will develop very attractive lilac or pink flowers. Once established in in a well drained garden it requires very little care, an so is suitable for people (like me) how are not the most attentive to the needs of the plants in their care. Established plants will become woody after a number of years, but this can be avoided by dividing the roots from time to time. The plant is hardy enough to survive light frosts, but will die off if the temperature drops below 10 degrees F. Thyme is easily propagated either via seeds, ...  Read the complete review

A kitchen garden favourite, thyme is easy to grow, maintain and has a place in a variety of recipes, with some mecidinal properties thrown in for good measure. In this review, I swear on the dooyoo oath that there will be no play on words/puns/or bad jokes using the herb's similarity to another word - I just simply haven't got the thyme for it. (oops!) I'll try to break down the review into sections, each containing some hopefuly useful facts about thyme. GROWING THYME If starting indoors, I've managed to grow thyme from seed all year round on my kitchen windowsill. For outdoor seed planting, a few different sources I've consulted (seed ...  Read the complete review

If you make your own stuffing for either chicken or pork then it will taste ten times better with a sprig of Thyme in it. Thyme is one of the universal and most used herb with a very sharp and aromatic taste. Thyme is a very easy herb to grow which does not require much attention; it can be placed in stony ground but ideally needs the sun. The plant needs to be sheltered from the cold; mine lives in a window box during the winter but the wind in the summer does not seem to do it any harm. Because of its smoky aroma it is very attractive to bees and therefore take care especially when the herb is blooming. A strain is also available called lemon thyme ...  Read the complete review