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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!