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In today's episode of Fun Fact Friday, we go back into the archives and find Paula at the farmer's market working with monksfood nursery to find the best herbs for her shrimp and watermelon salad.
She also learns how to put together and herb both warm and cold climates and how to pinch basil.
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oh hi you can't be going through my herb
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cabinet I'm having my girlfriends over
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today for a nice healthy lunch and I'm
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going to need some herbs and I'm just
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sick of these dried herbs so I think
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right here at the last minute I'm gonna
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dash out of here and try to find some
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fresh ones and I hope y'all will come
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with me the absolute best place to find
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anything fresh is at the farmers market
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so I headed straight to the monkshood
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nursery booth where I knew my friend
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David rolling would have exactly what I
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needed hello hey David how are you Paula
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I'm fine how are you thank you I'll be
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better if you can help me with some
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herbs today certainly I am making a
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tangy marinated shrimp that I'm gonna
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need some fresh parsley for I'm making
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tomato sandwiches that I'll either use
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dealer basil with a handmade at my mind
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so I want both okay oh and I'm making a
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fresh watermelon salad yes yes I'm
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putting men in it okay well let's start
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off with the parsley here we have the
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regular curly parsley which is great for
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decoration and we have it the Italian
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parsley love that a lien which is
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stronger in flavor and has more with
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them in Siena okay for the mint we have
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regular spearmint which is absolutely
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great flavor wise I'm very profuse
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crower helps set to upset stomachs and
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you know what else I may need some
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chives ok I have regular chives which is
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just the normal onion flavor yeah and
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then I also have the garlic chives which
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is like an onion together which do you
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like that i like the chart garlic chives
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I'll see I love garlic too and basil
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today we have sweet Genovese which is a
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very sweet tangy the basil everybody
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uses for everything then I have the
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spicy globe which grows like a globe and
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tastes kinda spicy red Reuben now I just
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loved the music great flavor and very
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attractive to ads to like tomato salads
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and stuff well before I leave today I
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want you to show me how to put together
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an
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door herb pots for the pot very
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important to have a drainage hole to let
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the excess water out then we're just
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going to put in compost put some garlic
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chives on the side so you're kind of
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putting the low growers you gave those
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outsides then when diese in here you're
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just gonna fill it up with soil and talk
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tell me just a few quick tips for people
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at home that that don't live in the
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weather like I live in to keep them in
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the house on the windowsill don't let
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them sit in water for too long and
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harvesting for example basil to harvest
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gets pinched out just above the leaves
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out and you get twice as much next time
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I love big stuff mm-hmm you know big
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hair yeah big everything can you stick
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me some big ones in yeah we have this
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red ribbon basil it's gonna get two and
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a half foot tall it's going to look huge
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in this pot after a while and the more
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you harvest it the more it's going to
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get big and we could put maybe some dill
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in the top two I love the bill is gonna
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get to about three or four foot tall
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good now you're gonna help me get this
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to my car certainly look house I have
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requested a big pot from units heavy
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yeah I sure do appreciate it Navy thank
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you so much my car is right over here
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okay
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you
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you
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