With The Healthy Mix Dinners 3 presale starting on March 21st, it is the perfect time to organise the herb and vegetable garden.
This is something new for Skinnymixers, but with the rising cost of groceries hopefully this gardening guide might help out a little! The herbs listed below are great for any Thermomix user to keep in the garden.
Disclaimer: In no way do I have a green thumb (the only reason I have a garden that is alive is purely due to my boyfriend waters it), nor am I a plant expert who can tell you what to plant and when.
I can share a little bit of what I have planted in my garden here in Southeast Queensland that I’ve been able to use in the cookbook.
Below is the full list of fresh herbs, vegetables and some fruit – found on the shopping list for Dinners 3. I don’t have it all planted, but have added notes for what I do 🙂
Hopefully it is useful – Sian Brown
P.S. I’ve created a handy A4 printable PDF with the below list for you to download. Simply enter your details and the PDF will open.
Fresh Herbs
- basil – my basil is going crazy st the moment! I will definitely make some Basil Oil
- chives – we use these in the Green Goddess Chopped Salad
- coriander – I never have much luck growing coriander
- dill – I try to keep some in the garden to make Dill Pickles but the dill is important for the Turkish Mince Bowl
- makrut lime leaves – for the Thai Chicken Laksa
- mint – mint can easily take over, so be careful.
- lemongrass – this will grow like crazy and I recommend planting in a pot.
- parsley – I prefer to grow Italian flat leaf. We use a lot of parsley in this book
- rosemary – my rosemary is HUGE!
- Plus the usuals used to make Stock Concentrate (parsley, sage, thyme, rosemary)
- Thai basil
Chillies
- birdseye chilli
- cayenne chillies – red & green (pick earlier for green) I like to have a few chilli plants, but only have 1 producing at the moment
Fruit & Vegetables
- avocado
- baby spinach
- bean sprouts (optional)
- broccoli
- brown onions
- carrot
- cauliflower
- celery – I have a couple of celery doing well grown from the roots of ones I’ve bought from the shops using propagation.
- cherry tomatoes – my cherry tomato plants are surviving but no fruit right now.
- cucumber
- green apples
- green Beans
- green cabbage
- iceberg lettuce
- kale or baby spinach
- leek
- lemons
- limes
- medjool dates
- mixed lettuce
- mushrooms – I do not have these growing!
- pak choy, bok choy or Chinese broccoli – for Pad See Ew
- pumpkin
- purple cabbage
- red capsicum
- red onion
- shallot (the French onion shallot – little brown, sweeter onions)
- spring onion – the long green kind!
- tomato
- white potatoes
- zucchini