What kinds of herbs are you going to grow in your garden?
By oscarbartoni
@oscarbartoni (2581)
United States
January 21, 2012 5:23pm CST
I will be starting a garden this year in my new house. I hope to grow many different kinds of plants including vegetable, fruits and herbs. I might even grow some flowers (to help keep pest insects away and to feed benificial insect close by. Being Native American, I plan on growing as any as I can that were grown by earlier Native Americans. What kinds of herbs are you going to grow and how will you use them?
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@vathsala30 (3732)
• India
22 Jan 12
I am a lover of herbal garden and i collect as much herbal plants as possible and grow in my garden. To name a few, i have pomogranate plant, which i rellish its fruits, preserve the rind by drying it and use it for diarrea, basil and sweet basil plants for cold , cough, mango , jack, custard apple. This custard apple leaves along with withania somnifere leaves are good for diabetes. sweet flag also called Calamas is good for angina, arrow root,turmeric, used as an anticeptic, and anti cancer, country almonds, aloe vera, ginger, banana, lime grass, eclipta alba for hair growth, brahmy for memory power, lazonia, gymnema sylvestar for diabetese, vajradanthi for tooth ache, periwincle for cancer and diabetes, and coconut tree. i use coconut milk for ulcer
@vathsala30 (3732)
• India
22 Jan 12
i also have mint which i use it for gastric problems, and withania somnifere which i use for any types of fevers, diabetes, and wild leadwort toofor various health problemsjavascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cphMainContent$btSubmit','')
@vathsala30 (3732)
• India
22 Jan 12
i also have mint which i use it for gastric problems, and withania somnifere which i use for any types of fevers, diabetes, and wild leadwort toofor various health problems
@vathsala30 (3732)
• India
22 Jan 12
i beg your pardon for posting the same posts two times. It is due to the computer being hanged and am unable to post for the first time then second time when i pressed enter, both have been printed
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
20 Feb 12
I plan to grow many more than I used to, as they are not well liked by the critters here as much as the fruits and veggies that they take over and consume. I will always grow basil, but this year I might just turn half the veggies garden into an herb garden, to help banish the groundhogs we have been getting year after year and destroying the crops. I will try things like marjoram, and thyme, and everything else I can imagine that isn't overly expensive.
@oscarbartoni (2581)
• United States
20 Feb 12
Try to get some hot pepper and mash up the seeds of these hot peppers. put a little liquid soap and just enough water in so that you can spray on your crops. This shoud deter your mammal critters from eating them. Just make sure to respray after it rains and use rubber gloves when you work with it.
@cotruelove (1016)
• Denver, Colorado
21 Jan 12
I grow basil every year. I have grown many more herbs over the years, but the last few years we have been looking to move so I haven't done much with a garden. Where I live the growing season is usually short, so I have to choose accordingly. I usually grow thyme, several types. My hubby wants me to grow some coriander this year but I'll have to see what happens before our spring growing season starts. I love lavender, but haven't had any luck getting it grow where I live. I love gardening and growing herbs. To me, it is very relaxing.
@hvedra (1619)
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23 Jan 12
I grow a lot of the usual culinary herbs like rosemary, sage, bay, thyme, basil, coriander, parsley, etc. But I also grow less usual herbs like lovage, hyssop, sweet cicely and so on.
I do grow some medicinal herbs (as well as for magical and spiritual usage - and that isn't a euphemism for anything illegal!) but the more I learn about herbs the more I'm inclined that "weeds" are the most useful. Mugwort, nettle, yarrow, plantain, chickweed, fat hen, dandelion and a lot of the stuff that is pretty much everywhere you look has the most value!




