I started an herb garden last year, replacing my vegetables because the wild animals loved my vegetables too much. I use creeping thyme for home made tea and also in my cooking. When you harvest thyme to use in the cooking, do you only use the leaves or the whole stem? I have a large harvest I could probably sell at my local farmers market ha ha! But for now I'm enjoying it myself but don't know if I'm using it correctly. Right now I pull off the leaves and discard the stem. Also, I have a hard time propagating them (I want to place some in my windowsill but they always die out). The only success I had is to deliberately spread the creeping thyme around the garden to get it to grow where I want it because the cuttings always die. Please help! Thank you all!
I started an herb garden last year, replacing my vegetables because the wild animals loved my vegetables too much. I use creeping thyme for home made tea and also in my cooking. When you harvest thyme to use in the cooking, do you only use the leaves or the whole stem? I have a large harvest I could probably sell at my local farmers market ha ha! But for now I'm enjoying it myself but don't know if I'm using it correctly. Right now I pull off the leaves and discard the stem. Also, I have a hard time propagating them (I want to place some in my windowsill but they always die out). The only success I had is to deliberately spread the creeping thyme around the garden to get it to grow where I want it because the cuttings always die. Please help! Thank you all!