{"id":51993,"date":"2017-04-16T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/grow-your-own-herbs-and-spices\/"},"modified":"2017-04-16T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T05:09:39","slug":"grow-your-own-herbs-and-spices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/grow-your-own-herbs-and-spices\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow your own herbs and spices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThere\u2019s nothing as fragrant and tasty as freshly cut fennel, coriander and chamomile, and cultivating them couldn\u2019t be easierOf all homegrown crops, to me no others have a more stark \u201cnight and day\u201d flavour difference than that of fresh herbs. This is because the aromatic compounds that give these plants their characteristic flavour are constantly evaporating off the surfaces of their leaves, wafting into the air around them. This is precisely the reason why we can smell them, but it also means cut herbs are constantly losing their scent in the journey from farm to fork.In one recent trial on coriander, after a week or so of storage the cut leaves had lost the vast majority of these fragrant chemicals. The researchers \u2013 investigating how to extend shelf life in supermarket herbs \u2013 highlighted the fact that the coriander still looked cosmetically perfect as a positive thing. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/apr\/16\/grow-your-own-herbs-and-spices\" target=\"_blank\">Grow your own herbs and spices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; There\u2019s nothing as fragrant and tasty as freshly cut fennel, coriander and chamomile, and cultivating&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-dwB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86715,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-grow-mexican-and-bolivian-coriander-alys-fowler\/","url_meta":{"origin":51993,"position":0},"title":"How to grow Mexican and Bolivian coriander | Alys Fowler","date":"April 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r These South American herbs sit on the coriander scale, but are spicier and have a stronger, sharper scentI am a big fan of coriander in the garden and in the kitchen; I love those earthy, citrussy notes that temper salt and spice so well. 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