A beginner's guide to growing and harvesting and preserving thyme! Thyme has many benefits and is an easy to grow herb for your garden.
Thyme
Bottle of thyme essential oil or infusion and basket with healing herbs.
Botanical Name: Thymus vulgaris. Other Common Names: English fresh, summer, German winter, narrow-leafed French, Greek gray, broad leaf English and garden thyme, mother of thyme. Habitat: Thyme originated in the Mediterranean area. Since then, it has been adapted to many different climates around the world. The first colonists brought it to North America where it was used as a food preservative and as a medicinal herb. Plant Description: The plant grows numerous stems which are hard, branched and procumbent. They grow from 4 inches to 1 foot high. The thyme stem is ordinarily a reddish-brown in color. Its bright green
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