Use thyme in dried beans, meat stews, and strong vegetables such as cabbage. Add thyme to butter or mayonnaise to taste. Thyme is easily dried, refrigerated, frozen, or preserved in oil or vinegar. Strip the tiny leaves from woody stems before using. Although the flavor is most concentrated just before plants bloom, thyme is so aromatic that the leaves have good flavour all the time. Harvest leaves as you need them, including through the winter in places where it is evergreen. Good drainage, good air circulation, and proper planting as described above will help prevent disease. Also watch out for root rot and fungus diseases in humid climates. Spider mites can be a problem in dry weather. This clever container design uses a cabbage as the tall “thriller,” marigolds as the “filler,” and creeping thyme as the “spiller” flowing over the edge of a small whiskey barrel pot. In zone 10, thyme is usually an annual, often succumbing to heat and humidity in mid-summer. In the North and cold climates, cover with pine boughs after the soil freezes to help protect from winter damage. Lemon thyme is more upright and more vigorous than the other thymes. Cut thyme back by one third in spring, always cutting above points where you can see new growth, never below into the leafless woody stem. Pinching the tips of the stems keeps plants bushy, but stop clipping about a month before the first frost of fall to make sure that new growth is not too tender going into the cool weather. Do this after the last spring frost, so that the plants do not get woody and brittle. Easy to grow, thyme needs little care except for a regular light pruning after the first year. Outdoors, German thyme is perennial in zones 5 to 9, lemon thyme in zones 7 to 9. You don't have to worry about your thyme plants getting enough sunlight, either, thanks to the unit's grow light. Instead of growing in soil, plants grow directly in water that circulates around the roots, delivering moisture, nutrition, and air. You can also grow thyme indoors, either in a pot (if you have a sunny window away from drafts) or in a hydroponic system like the Miracle-Gro® Twelve™ Indoor Growing System. Both are enriched with aged compost and provide an excellent environment for strong root growth.įor best growth, you'll also want to fertilize regularly with a premium organic plant food like Miracle-Gro® Performance® All Purpose Plant Nutrition, which feeds both plants and the beneficial microbes in the soil. When growing thyme in containers, fill pots with Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics® All Purpose Container Mix. Or, improve soil texture and nutrition by adding a few inches of Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics® All Purpose In-Ground Soil in with the top layer of existing soil. Mulching with limestone gravel or builder's sand improves drainage and helps prevents root rot. Plant in soil with excellent drainage and a pH of about 7.0.
Be sure to choose strong young thyme plants from Bonnie Plants®, the company that has been helping home gardeners succeed for over 100 years. Start from young plants set out in spring after the last frost. Once thyme is established, harvest as needed but avoid pruning more than one-third of the plant at a time.
English thyme herb Patch#
It even makes a pretty patch of small ground cover. As a special garden treat, put a few along a walkway and between steps, and your footsteps will release its aroma. Plant thyme in your herb garden, at the edge of a walk, along a short garden wall, or in containers.
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