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for Thyme

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  • 40 of 40 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 anwar

    Member since 30/04/2003

    Reviews written: 560

    5 Stars Take your Thyme! 10/03/2013
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages easy to grow,good health benefits,flavour

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none for me!

    Looking out on my snow covered garden as I write this hardly makes me think of spring, but it really is just around the corner! As the weather improves there are many jobs that need to be done in my garden including pruning my herbs. One of my favourite herbs is Thyme; a must have in my kitchen! Getting started. ***************** There are numerous varieties of thyme including the wild Thyme I love to see in Provence and lemon Thyme. I grow the common Varity known as Thymus Vulgaris. Thyme is really easy to grow and requires very little looking after. I bought my Thyme in pots from a local ... more
  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 sandemp

    Member since 21/10/2002

    Reviews written: 582

    5 Stars Make Time For Thyme 02/06/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very forgiving and easy to grow, attracts bees, hardy, great for cooking, lots of varieties

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Just for once I really can't think of any

    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 ... more
  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    phoenixgreen

    5 Stars Thyme for Tea 13/06/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A wonderfully adaptable herb that's easy to grow and looks lovely (to humans and bees!)

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None at all!!!

    Thyme for Tea! I love my herb garden – originally a square plot of ground in the vegetable patch, and now moved to pots and tubs in a sunny corner of the garden to make space for courgettes and lettuce – it gives me great pleasure watching the bees go daft for the scented rosemary and thyme flowers, and it makes the taste of my culinary delights so much better! My herb collection at the moment consists of about 3 small potted rosemary plants which I grew from cuttings (I have a monster Rosemary by the sitting room window which just gets bigger and bushier every year!), a pineapple mint, a pot ... more
  • 20 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Freespirit

    5 Stars Thyme for Tea 04/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A beautiful and versatile plant with both culinary and medicinal uses.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    Thyme is, in my opinion, one of the most useful of herbs and a very versatile garden plant as well. I would argue in fact that this herb is, if not itself the king of herbs, certainly a member of the royal family. Common thyme, thymus vulgaris, is a perennial herb with a woody stem which grows quickly into a small shrub about 45cm. While there is nothing wrong at all with the common thyme there are over 300 other species many of which are more decorative. The species of thymes come in many different colours from white and pale pink through to deep purple. When I had my front garden as a herb ... more
  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Gardenex

    5 Stars Thyme to grow this herb 19/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages easy to grow , many choices of variety

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    Thyme is another great addition to the herb garden. Thymus vulgaris can in fact be grown just about anywhere that is not waterlogged ,and has full sun. Light , well drained soil is best though , slighly on the alkaline side . Thyme is a perennial and there are an absolute multitude of types and varieties to choose from. Here a few of my personal favourites. T - citriodorous " Archers Gold " has lovely pale green leaves which are attractive in the're own right. The best variegated type is T vulgaris " variegata " with it's wonderfully marked leaves with hints of yellow intermingled with the ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    loulou6

    5 Stars It's thyme to use this herb 26/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages tastes yummy in food, easyish to grow

    Disadvantages Disadvantages tastes horrible in tea

    Thyme used to be grown in monastery gardens in the south of France, Spain and Italy around the Middle ages for the use as a digestive aid, cough remedy and a treatment for intestinal parasites (no, not Alien3!). But poor old thyme, it’s sometimes seen as the ugly duckling of the herb world. It doesn’t have the extravagant display of blossoms that sage does, nor does it have a distinctive taste like tarragon. But it IS an invaluable element in the kitchen; it blends itself so nicely and enhances many other herbs without overpowering them. Of course, everyone knows the ingredients of ... more
  • 26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Sunnysmiles

    Member since 22/07/2005

    Reviews written: 534

    5 Stars Thyme for a review 03/01/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good for cooking, medicinal properties and nice in the garden

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none it's good gfor you

    Thyme is one of the best known herbs there is, but not only is it a pretty flowering herb to have in your garden, it is also good for lots of ailments. Thyme is a perrenial plant which means it grows all the year round and doubles in size every year. There are lots of different types of thyme you can grow and buy from the health shops. I prefer to grow my own then I can nip outside and cut a bit off the plant for medicine or cooking with. There are so many different types of thyme to choose from. Common Thyme Orange Thyme Gold-varigated Thyme. Creeping Thyme Caraway Thyme Lemon Thyme and many ... more
  • 0 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    billy1970

    5 Stars beautiful coverage 18/07/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good coverage

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    thyme is a herb that is used quite often in cooking of different meals, usually to add extra taste to something or to marinate meat before or during cooking. thyme will grow pritty much anywhere so is a realy easy plant to grow, it is found in the wild usually growing in dry grass lands, heaths and dunes, Thyme produces a beautiful pink flower from april to september so will look good aswell, it is a ground hugging plant which when crushed releases the thyme herb we are used to, as it is a ground hugging plnt dont plant it next to small plants as it may smother them by taking there nutrients ... more
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