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How to Harvest Oregano for the Best Flavor
Oct 19, 2026
Learn how to harvest fresh oregano straight from the garden! Pasquale shows how to pick and prepare homegrown oregano so you can enjoy its wonderful flavor in your favorite recipes. A simple way to make the most of your herb garden and enjoy fresh, flavorful oregano at home.
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Hello everybody. Today we pick up oregano. This oregano I pick up every year. This is my brother's garden
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Today I want to pick up, after we got dry, I want to show everybody the dried oregano the way I do
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Like this, everybody can do the same. It's really, really good. Now, the color, I started to color the stamped oregano
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And I got over here a yucar like this. All the same, almost the same size, a yucar
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Ah, when you smell this oregano, look at this. It's a really, really good smell
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I want to take it out before the bees start to eat all my oregano
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When I was in Orsara, I was 10, 11 years old, still 30 years old, we was going to the mound
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We was doing the oregano. After I was going, I was selling this
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We was making money like this. We can go look at the movie or we can buy ice cream
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A lot of times you say to your father, your mother, I need 10 cents to go buy the ice cream
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Go for oregano. Make oregano, you sell. You buy ice cream Next year you don got to pull Because you pull you take the roots out You gotta leave the roots Cause next year it comes more In this oregano you can make a
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nice pizza. Okay now this we got tie this. I want to put right over here on this
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table. Now we tie this and add two bundles. I got another little rope over here. We
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do the same thing and we tie over here. At night's time I got this hang on my rope
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over there. You hang up on the rope over here but make sure every night, every
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single night you got to take out. At night time it's the dampest. Ain't no one not
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it be wet. Okay? And you hang like this. And look, some people was going to Italy, and
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you go to the smallest city, I don't care, big city, you can drive to Oregon on the street
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but you gotta watch. A lot of times, you drive to Oregon, you did so much work, and somebody
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come. Thank you, Pasqua. He take my oregano away. You go look. Who's my
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oregano The oregano is disappeared Now this is got to dry two to three days It got to be really dry After we show you the way I want to do this oregano Okay everybody see my oregano is dry I was dry for two days I want to show everybody what I do
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with oregano when it's nice and dry. You take a stamp by stamp like this and what you do, you got
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one part over here and other parts over there. You take the leaves
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and I use gloves and you do just like that. Look how nice
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clean it comes. That's the way you got to do like this. Okay, now I did all the leaves for the oregano. Now
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nothing got this away. This is the same thing. Now I got over here nice, the tablets nice clean and I put right
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inside this parts over here. Now maybe somebody say, what do you do with this
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flour? No worry about it. This, for me, it's the best. Okay, before I do
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the flour, let me do the leaves. And you squeeze like this
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And like this, you know, you do by hands. I scrape like this. Look, look
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Look how beautiful it looks already. And now this, what I do
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I put it right in this jar. The oregano I keep in the refrigerator
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I got some oregano in the refrigerator for three four years already Oh it really fresh Oregano it smells so good Now
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it's time to do the flour. But somebody, he said to me, Pasquale
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add away the flour. I keep the leaves. You make a big mistake. The flour, it's
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the best. And you do like this. I got over here, and you do
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and you scrape like that. Look at that. after... I got the strain again after you see you do like this
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Look at that. And this now you do like this. Look. I pass one more time for the strain again. You know I want to make
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sure all the little stick out. It look nice. It's beautiful. Look now. It's so good
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And now it's time to put it inside the jar. I want to know, if somebody wants some recipe
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made with this fresh oregano, please, let me know and I'll make it for you. Okay, now I want to show you
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This is the leaves and this is the flower. Look at the difference
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it makes this. Okay, this is for special dish and this is for cook. I want to say to everybody, thank you very much
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this recipe. I hope somebody make the same. It's really good. Make sure not to throw away the flour
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gets the best. Thank you. And I'll see you next time. Thank you very much
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