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Graceful Amaranth.
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Makrut limes anticipating their final destination as Indian pickles
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Moringa leaves. This year is the best it has ever grown.
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Reposting to keep this pic in the Garden Love thread.
Borage is an excellent pollinator plant, and as a bonus adds a beautiful blue to the garden.
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I am pretty hopeless at keeping these Garden Love posts all in a thread.
Here is the Lemon Verbena I missed adding. I loved hearing from the people who love LV, and how the pic instantly evoked its scent as you brush past it or pick leaves.
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Another plant from my garden - Yarrow. If you look closely you can see a wasp on one of the flowers. Yes, even wasps are welcome in my garden, except the European Wasp. Luckily I see these only rarely.
With many medicinal and some culinary uses, yarrow can also absorb nutrients from the soil and make them available to other plants. I plant it at the end of some of the veggie beds.
I have recently read that it is sometimes added to ferments. I am keen to give it a try, but judiciously as it has a flavour tending on the bitter side.
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NilaJonesI'll be interested to hear what you end up doing with it!
I have a small patch in a partly shaded bed that has stayed about the same size for 20 years
A couple years ago I made the mistake of transplanting some of it to a full sun bed, in order to breed for right pink flowers
It totally took over the bed! Spreading from underground runners, and into an adjacent bed by seed
I had no idea it was so aggressive in sunshine
I now have my pink plants and pots, and have spent a lot of time digging the not so pink plants out of the beds
I tried the tea for cold / flu symptoms once, but it is extremely, extremely bitter. Fermentation might take care of that, but I am allergic to ferments
If you find any other uses for it that work for you, please post!
@NilaJones Interesting. I have some growing in the front but it is much drier there and doesn't do so well. The one in the veggie garden is healthy but not aggressive.
This has a lot of uses, especially medicinal. https://www.herbcottage.com.au/blogs/grow-your-health/yarrow Note the contraindications tho.
Oh, I put the occasional leaf in a garden salad, chopped well. I don't notice the bitterness so much.
Thanks for the link! I had forgotten about the bloodstaunching. I usually use another plant for that. And I didn't know that it could be used for inflammation! I'm trying to remember if I have tried making a salve before....
@NilaJones I need to use it more!
Sarah dreams of beans@LifeTimeCooking @NilaJones Aww, hi yarrow! It doesn't agree with me internally but it works very well as a bath herb for pain (joints, cramps, etc) which makes it close to my heart.
(Just to say the obvious if anyone inexperienced sees this-- test a small amount before dunking your whole body in it.)
@beandreams @NilaJones Nice to know! And good advice.
Definitely Doc D@LifeTimeCooking thanks for the link on uses for Yarrow! I'm outlining a podcast episode on "weeds for the medicine chest," and yarrow will be one of the featured plants.
At a previous house, I had it take over more or less everywhere: flower beds, in the lawn, even growing up through the gravel in the driveway. Unstoppable and dependable, marvelous qualities!
Mark Asser@LifeTimeCooking I'm going to have to pull my lemon verbena out and replace it on the same site, but properly staked this time so that it grows upwards and not sideways across the path. No rush, though. I mean, if I have to push through a thicket of the stuff to turn the sprinkler on or off, what's the real harm?
@MarkAsser Lol, yes I have one that grows extremely sideways, luckily along a bed. It is in a very shaded area and I put it down to lack of sun.
This one is heavy with the flowers which has made it hang over the path. I've tied it up as best I can, and will leave it for the moment knowing I may have to prune later.