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Hi, I'm Marci Degman, the aspiring gardener, and today we are going to talk about how to plant English thyme. What I'm going to do is find a spot within my herb garden that I have a little bare area right here. Thyme tends to grow in a nice little bush. So it's going to fit right into this row here. It needs to be in a really good sunny spot with good drainage. Now this is pretty loose so I'm not going to have to worry too much about the soil. So I've got a hole pretty easy. Now this is a thyme that I've actually divided and moved from another part of my garden. So it's going to look a little different. Most of the time you are going to buy them in a four inch pot. Now it looks a little more straggly but it has a lot of root so this is going to fill in a lot quicker. It's really easy to transplant. You can see each little piece has tiny little hair type roots. So this is like a bunch of little divisions. So I'm going to compact them together. There's really nothing out of the ordinary to planting it. It's mostly having it in the right area of your garden that's important. As you can see it's kind of sporadic in growth but it will be a rounded little bushy plant. And what you want to do is take and kind of trim it as it grows and it will get into a nice shape. And what you can do is you can have different types of thyme. This one here is wooly thyme and as you can see it's kind of a ground cover type. It's really low if I put it in the ground. There's a lot of creeping thymes. They flower at different times, they flower white, red, purple. So what you can have is kind of a patchwork of different thymes if you want to. But this one this English thyme is your best culinary thyme for eating. And this is how you plant English thyme.