{"id":26782,"date":"2022-09-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26782"},"modified":"2022-09-14T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:00:00","slug":"herbs-with-aristotle-wednesday-14th-september-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/14\/herbs-with-aristotle-wednesday-14th-september-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbs with Aristotle – Wednesday 14th September 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Herbs with Aristotle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today I\u2019m bringing you more Herbs with Aristotle, that\u2019s me of course. It\u2019s taken me ages to get Wilma to give me another opportunity to write to you, now here I am. Today I want to tell you about another three of my herbs, mint, thyme and tarragon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mint<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mum loves mint, but mainly in sweets. You might like it with your meat at a meal, but Mum\u2019s sweet tooth wins the day in this house. Sucking on mints is very good for relieving trapped wind. On that basis I\u2019m not giving it to Shadow as she puts out more wind than any of us can deal with as it is. To be honest, it\u2019s good for all indigestion and makes your breath smell nice, so what\u2019s not to like. No one\u2019s going to call me \u2018dog breath\u2019 around here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Wilma<\/a>
Wilma in front of the mint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m growing two types of mint, but I think I might plant some more next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tarragon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve only got one lot of tarragon and to be frank it\u2019s not doing all that well. I blame the triffid like borage, but let\u2019s not go back into that one. Tarragon is also good for indigestion. This is one of the reason that herbs have been traditionally added to cooking \u2013 they actually help your eating process. I\u2019ve just told Mum that tarragon can help with sleep and she\u2019s now going outside to find some to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thyme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oh I had such high hopes of the thyme I was growing. Oddly I think I killed most of it by over-watering. Apart from making food taste nice, thyme has anti-bacterial properties. I need to plant some more or ask Mum to buy me a plant or two for my birthday next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all herbs keep growing through the winter. If you gut the ones you want to keep now, you can chop them up and freeze them in ice cubes ready to use in your cooking until you can grow some more next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well that\u2019s it from me. I\u2019m off outside to chew on some herbs so that Mum can\u2019t smell the apples I\u2019ve been eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aristotle<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for more herbs with Aristotle. He wants to tell you about his mint, tarragon and parsley. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,173],"tags":[63,12,172],"class_list":["post-26782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-2","category-herbs","tag-aristotle","tag-gardening","tag-herbs","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}