Orange thyme
Key Facts
- Ideal for duck, dessert & carrot recipes.
- Easy to grow
- But takes a long time to grow – 1 year
- Available from Amazon
Background
- Originally from the Mediterranean region.
- It has a strong citrus flavour with no after taste.
- Ideal for duck, dessert & carrot recipes.
- Days from seed to harvest – about 365 (1 year)
- About 20 to 30 cm high
Example Orange Thyme recipes
When you grow orange thyme it will have small aromatic green leaves with a lovely citrus smell. And can be used in any recipes to give a lovely citrus thyme aroma.
For example in recipes like:
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This is our favourite kitchen tool
A food mill is ideal for making sauces, mash or puree
(And much better then using a food blender or whisk)
- Just add fresh ingredients and crank to purée!
- Use it to make deliciously smooth mash or lump-free sauces.
- You can even use it to make baby food
- For detailed description visit Amazon
How to grow orange thyme at home
The orange thyme plants & seeds are very easy to grow. The downside is that it can take upto 1 year to be established (so you can harvest it) but after that it just keeps going.
Thyme tends to be best suited to well drained soil and full sun.
This is why it’s ideal for growing either using soil or hydroponics on a balcony (if it’s sunny) or using a kitchen hydroponic or aquaponic kit with back up lighting.
If using soil
- Sow the seeds thinly into moist warm soil
- Cover slighly – will germinate 7 to 21 days
- Thin to 30 cm between plants.
Using Hydronics or Aquaponics
- Thyme is ideal for hydroponics or aquaponics
- Takes about 5 to 7 weeks before harvesting
- You can speed this up by planting cuttings
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The plants will grow to 20cm tall and makes good ground cover and for border edges. It will also looks good in containers and hanging baskets.
It has pale pink coloured flowers in the summer that are excellent for bees. Supplied in a 9cm pot with colour label.
- It is a hardy perennial culinary herb with citrus orange scented leaves that can be used in roasts, stews, soups, anywhere you would use Thyme
- An excellent plant for ground cover, border edges, herb gardens, window boxes and containers
- Free flowering with masses of pink flowers that are magnets for bees and other pollinating insects
- Good sized plants grown in 9cm pots ready to be planted out now
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Lovely flavour and a great ingredient. Only reason I haven’t scored it higher is that it takes such a long time to grow