Plants, Herbs and Recipes
Forget-me-not: is it useful?
Unfortunately this abundant plant has little uses!
My Superfood Salad
some suggestions what you can put in your salad:
Contraceptive herb: Queen Anne’s Lace or Daucus Carota
Sorry to all those wanting to buy wild carrot seeds. I will harvest them later in the year and then sell some (a few) seed packets. I definitively won’t sell quantities for using them straight away – there will be seed packets only. Why should you bother growing wild carrots at all? If you want … Read more Contraceptive herb: Queen Anne’s Lace or Daucus Carota
Nettle Quiche, Variation #1
Need an extra portion of vitamins and minerals? Cook nettles for dinner! What I tried was a nettle quiche (probably not really a quiche). That’s what I did: Step one: Harvest about half a square meter of nettles, mine were about 30 cm high, which is pretty amazing as I chopped them to the ground … Read more Nettle Quiche, Variation #1
Comfrey panacea or deadly poison?
Comfrey a highly esteemed herb Some think comfrey is a panacea useful to heal wounds, broken bones against varicose veins, cough, cancer, high blood pressure to name a few. Comfrey is a herb which was held in high esteem throughout history by ancient and modern herbalists alike: Dioscorides, Paracelsus, the Australian herbalist like Isabelle Shipard … Read more Comfrey panacea or deadly poison?
Glorious Goldenrod
How uplifting are the yellow flowers of goldenrod full of bees foraging for nectar! No wonder it is used against depression and of course for kidney and bladder complaints. I grow two species of goldenrods. One which I could not 100% identify, but it is probably solidago virgaurea, the other one is the Canadian goldenrod, … Read more Glorious Goldenrod
Grow your own incense: 3 Common Kitchen Herbs and 4 other easy herbs
Why buy incense? Make your own!
Is Sorrel Bad for You?
Sorrel is good for most of us – in moderation: