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RE: Quick contest for 5 SBI: help Nate pick some herbs
My recommendation for you would be:
- Calendula which could be beautiful in the flower garden plus is excellent in preparations for eczema or other skin conditions.
- Valerian which is great for treating anxiety. I like it in a flower garden beside the tall delphiniums. they seem to compliment each other very nicely.
- Scullcap is another which relaxes nervous tension and induces inner calm, even counteracting sleeplessness
4)Licorice is an expectorant, demulcent, anti-inflammatory - I would have a place to cultivate some stinging nettle for it is so widely applicable and strengthens and supports the whole body. (see my post on my love affair with nettles at: https://steemit.com/naturalmedicine/@porters/my-love-affair-with-nettles )
Hope this helps and I'd be happy to discuss further the cultivation of these plants and perhaps others.
Thank you! I've been wondering about nettles recently. I want to plant them to keep my kids out of the garden 😂
Seriously though, I peaked ahead in the Permaculture Playing Cards series, and stinging nettles are coming up SOON. I need to read more about them because they sound incredibly utilitarian and beneficial. I'll go read your post now!
I guarantee once the kids have gotten into them once, they will not do it again... :))
Love @porters list!
Hahahahaha I was mostly kidding about that, but their playing on the swale berms (kids will be kids, I guess?) is getting annoying lol
It's also an opportunity to teach them some plants have very good, and VERY bad, properties and to respect them...
They will deter your kids but you can also teach them how they can use them as a weapon by pinching/holding it on the stem (not allowing any of the stinging leaves to touch you) allowing you to control who gets stung with the leaves. If a bully were chasing them they could use the nettle to back them off. It's all in the way you handle them.
@porters these are all good! If he plants all of the suggestions he gets, it will be an impressive garden for sure!
:)>It was a cool idea to make a call out for suggestions and I'm always willing to help when it comes to gardening. I'm excited to see what he will come up with and follow it's progression.
That does sound like fun for sure, planning to raise all your own medicine is a noble effort! I have already planted what I can on the new property we bought.
:)>I raise some of mine but most I harvest from the wild, which grow abundantly around our forest home.
Go on you for getting your new property planted up. What zone are you gardening in?
I am in NE Oklahoma, I am not sure which zone that is. I like wildcrafting myself, and i am just planting to have a more reliable source for specific medicines we use a lot of. I do not want to burden the wild plants for these items.
:)>Good plan!
Any herbal that is grown, is the beginning of a good plan! LOL!
:)>