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 Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:46 pm
Well, garlic seems to be my herb of choice this winter season. *nods* I don't like the flavor of it, but I've found it's tolerable to me if I use whole cloves rather than diced or slices.
The science behind that, courtesy of Alton Brown and Good Eats, is that the smaller you chop it, the more cell walls you break, and the more certain chemicals mix to produce that garlicky flavor. So the larger the pieces, the milder the garlic. ^_^
We're planting six cloves in a pot in the window for this season, and I'm using it in ramen tonight. ^_^
(Oh- a great way to spice up cheap ramen without expensive addings: Mix in your favorite veggies and meat, and voila! Excellent soup with all the nutritional needs met!)
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:14 pm
jellysundae i'm trully jealous that chamomlie tea works for your friend! i love drinking it, but it doesn't seem to have any sedative effect on me. Ginger is another fabulous cure-all, great for calming/prevention of nausea of any form, and also meant to boost cilculation and possibly fight od colds too 3nodding Shame it's a tropical plant, BUT i did look it up before posting and it saying it can be grown easily indoors in the UK during the summer months, so that should be the same for any temperate climate 3nodding Quote: Ginger - grow it
Ginger is a low-growing tropical plant which is easily grown indoors during the summer months in the UK. You can grow ginger plants from green ginger which you buy from supermarkets, although you are not likely to produce a big crop of rhizhomes.
Growing outdoors in the tropics, it needs a minimum annual rainfall of 150cm, temperatures of 30°C or over, a short dry season and a deep fertile soil. It usually takes nine months to produce a crop.
Hardiness
Best grown as an annual in the UK. Cannot be grown outdoors even in the hottest part of summer: minimum temperature around 28°C.
Propagation
Grown from the end 'finger' pieces broken off a root or 'hand' of ginger. Existing ginger plants can be divided and the roots grown on, although they are difficult to keep alive during the UK winter because of low light levels.
Cultivation
In early spring or late winter, find some fresh ginger in the shops. Choose fingers which have a shoot bud developing - this looks like a small pyramidal horn at the end of the root - and cut off at least 5cm from this bud.
Bury the finger bud upwards in a 20cm pot of loam-based compost. Keep warm and constantly moist during the growing season. Move to a larger pot as the plant grows, (ultimately you might need a 35cm diameter pot if your ginger is growing very well.)
Once the ginger has started to grow, feed every two to three weeks with a general pot-plant feed.
In the autumn, reduce the watering and let the pots dry out, which will encourage the plants to form rhizhomes. Lift the rhizhomes carefully and use in cooking.
Pests
Usually healthy, although red spider mite can be an occasional problem. Increasing the humidity by misting plants twice daily with warm water helps discourage these pests. WOW, i want to grow some right now! Shame it's the wrong time of the year now, but i'm DEFINITELY going to try it next Spring 3nodding i gave in and bought some ginger today blaugh it's got 4 litle shoots on it so i shall plant the lot, hopefully one at least will take, even if it is way too early yet to be doing this rolleyes
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:18 am
I've found some information!
Ginger and rosemary are both warm-weather plants. Rosemary until zone 7, actually.
A book I have said that rosemary grows best in warmer areas and doesn't like to be brought in. So I think that a rosemary bush would have to be left over the winter and protected, maybe by plastic or a sheltered area of the garden or yard, and let to die back and regrow in the summer.
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:20 pm
i wonder if that's why the rosemary my Mum gave me died.
the zones mean nothing to me of course but i can understand that an outdoor shrub wouldn't do too well indoors after a while.
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:18 am
I believe zone seven is "it gets nippy but doesn't snow, and it frosts, but only sometimes a killing frost."
I'm not sure, though.
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:14 pm
Caraway seed is very good too. It has healing properties as it comes from the Nigela Sativa plant....which was also used in ancient times by the Egyptians. They called it the Miracle Seed. I use it every time I make anything with a meat base to it. ninja
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:11 pm
1unique_chic Caraway seed is very good too. It has healing properties as it comes from the Nigela Sativa plant....which was also used in ancient times by the Egyptians. They called it the Miracle Seed. I use it every time I make anything with a meat base to it. ninja as a tea, or as another preparation? And doesn't caraway sort of taste like black licorice? Or was that anise?
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