Must haves in a distillers garden

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Jes2xu
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Must haves in a distillers garden

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Hows it everyone.

Honestly, I suck at growing things. But I may just be able to force my self to get better for the good of my fermenter/gin basket/etc.

What would you not be without in your garden?
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I start with the ingredients list for a desired product, then find out if there anything on the list that is difficult to obtain, or expensive, and grow that.
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Seems smart.

I guess my questions was more around do you see the same ingredient popping up consistently over many recipes. Or at least that was what I was meaning although I articulated it in rather a shitty manner!

Seeing as I am not versed in too many recipes or finding the ingredients etc.
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Herbs mainly for cooking - bay, thyme, rosemary and mint.

Some years chilies. But I can see my next project being a plum tree (or two).

Maybe once I've played with making gin I'll have some better ideas :-)
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Try to source bergamot and Seville oranges. If you can't get any, that would be a good place to start.
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Mikey-moo wrote: Maybe once I've played with making gin I'll have some better ideas :-)
This may be a large part of my thinking here too ;)
NZChris wrote:Try to source bergamot and Seville oranges. If you can't get any, that would be a good place to start.
Awesome thanks! Will look into it.


Someone else sugested brandy grapes too. . . . that sounds like it may be a go!
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I am too lazy to really have a garden. But I try to grow a hedge of sloes. They make a convincing border, make in spring two days a beautiful white wall and have good sloe plums in fall.
I planted two walnuts at a distance of a hammock of each other.
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