Nettles and what other herbs/weeds are less popular but beneficial
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Comments (33)Nettles is the healthiest plant,which has given us by Mother Nature.If people knew about the use of this herb that eliminates the symptoms of various diseases,we would use less medication... For what uses nettles? Nettle is one of the most medicinal plants, and is commonly used leaf and nettle root. Used to purify the blood and increase the excretion of fluids from the body, and has been applied to all diseases caused by an accumulation of toxins in the body (eczema, headaches, rheumatism, gout, arthritis). Nettle has a beneficial effect in a variety of diseases that occur as a result of excessive burden on the liver, gall bladder, spleen and kidney toxic chemicals. The liver and kidneys are responsible for processing and excretion of harmful substances from the body. If these organs are overloaded or fail to excrete harmful substances out, created fertile ground for the development of diseases that occur as a result of the burden of toxins (rheumatism, gout, migraine, eczema). Nettle prevents the sand in the kidneys and bladder Nettle is rich in iron, and is used in Iron Deficiency Anaemia. In folk medicine nettle is considered to be "strong blood", and also be used for pallor, anemia, anemia, lack of energy, fatigue fast. Nettle contains many vitamins and minerals, and some herbalists believe multimineralni and natural multivitamin complex. Nettle contains vitamin C, carotenoids (provitamin A), vitamin C, B2, B5, iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicic acid (formic acid and histamine, which urns). Nettle root is an ingredient of a mixture of tea for curing prostate enlargement and urinary tract. Nettle contains components that regulate the levels of free androgens (male sex hormones), consequently increasing the metabolism of a swollen prostate tissue, fluid eliminates the deadlock and open the narrowed urinary channels. Nettle is also used for catarrh of the stomach, respiratory diseases, gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcer, pulmonary diseases....See Morepulling other peoples weeds
Comments (28)Hi. Haven't posted in over a year and usually at GJ, but this thread struck me as funny. Yes, I sometimes want to pull weeds out of others gardens and have been known to "fix" public container plantings. It's almost embarrassing! My gardens are not exactly weed free however, so it's not a huge urge. One experience taught me to respect others gardens, though. When I had a seed company, I often had customers come to purchase seeds and they would tour the gardens. We garden organically and at the time my kids were small, so we spent a lot of time "learning" in the gardens. One day a gentleman customer took it upon himself to "rid" one of our apple trees of a large cocoon that was hanging on a branch before I could say a word. He said, "You sure don't want that hanging around in your garden." Problem was, we DID want it hanging around. The kids and I had been monitoring it for weeks and were anxious to see what type of moth or butterfly would eventually hatch out of it. Needless to say, we were sad. I didn't tell him the difference because he was a customer and because he crushed our insect experiment and wiped it on the grass. I'm very careful now to remember that everything is not as it appears and sometimes beauty really isn't in the eye of the beholder....See MoreAnyone else eating Nettles?
Comments (8)I just tried eating nettle this fall. I had previously picked them several times and had them go bad before I got around to preparing them.. I found the texture to be a little off putting, they seemed to have the same kind of "mouth feel" that I would expect from Lamb's ear or some other fuzzy green stuff.I plane to try it again next spring, maybe I will like it better. I've been eating purslane and lambsquarter and dandelion since around 1948 when my father taught me about those herbs. I just found out that purslane is one of the only vegetable sources of Omega 3. cccatcrazy.. Lambquarter is related to goosefoot as is Orach (red). I have a clear memory of a soup my Lithuanian Grandmother made using barley, lambsquarter (they called it barnweed) and chicken heads and feet. (seeing the chicken heads floating in the soup pot was the memory snagger.) I planted red orach a couple of years ago and just let some of the plants go to seed. It's beautiful in spring salads. Trouble now is I have aquired a new garden "friend" woodchuck and she really really likes my sorrel and orach. Dont know yet what I will do about her. My garden also supplies me with volunteer miner's lettuce, mache (corn salad) giant red mustard, dill, chickweed, victoria cress and wild arrugula...all pretty much earlier than I could have planted them and I love the idea that they plant themselves. All I have to do is not weed them out. anca.. I don't think you will find seed for nettle though Ive never looked. I spend quite a bit of time pulling it out of flower beds (as a professional gardener) It spreads by underground runners and can take over a large area if it is happy. Some roots are in the topsoil we get from a certain supplier and it is not something I like to be surprised by without garden gloves. My skin is quite sensitive to it and will burn for 6-8 hours. I know of a couple of plots of it to try eating it again in the spring and I've seen it growing out in the woods along hiking trails etc so if you found some growing I suspect it would transpant easily if you get root. linnea... we know each other, I used to be known as SAM at the travel agency before I came to my senses and got out of that business to become a gardener. My new discovery is sulphur shelf mushroom which I like lots better than nettle. Have you ever tried mushrooms? Your garden sounds like a wonderful place to spend time. I was glad to learn your business is thriving....See MorePlanning Your Plantings In the Edible Garden
Comments (38)Mia, Yes , I think it will work. Interplanting tomatoes with other crops is something I do all the time. I often grow smaller plants like lettuce and carrots underneath and between tomato plants, essentially using them as a living mulch beneath the taller tomato plants. I also mix all kinds of herbs into the tomato beds as well, and think those herbs help explain how I grow so many tomato plants and yet only rarely see even a single tomato hornworm or fruit worm. You sometimes will get less yield per plant when you interplant multiple kinds of crops together using close spacing, but since you have a lot more plants occupying the soil, you still get a good harvest . The best carrot crop I ever had was a result of me broadcast sowing lettuce and carrot seed randomly into the tomato bed after the tomato plants already had been transplanted into the ground. My garden was smaller then and I had run out of space, so was packing as much into each bed as I possibly could. I just thinned carrots and lettuce after they sprouted. When I grow onions with tomato plants, normally I hammer a stake into the ground where each tomato plant will be planted later, and leave a small unplanted spot there as I plant the onions. When it it time to transplant the tomato plants into the ground, I put one tomato plant next to each stake. If I have to pull up a couple of onions to make room for a tomato transplant, it isn't a big deal . We eat those onions as scallions. I started interplanting multiple types of plants together long ago, after reading John Jeavon's book "How To Grow More Vegetables...." book. It is amazing how much you can pack into even a small space when you interplant. Even when I grow tomato plants in molasses feed tubs, I generally have pepper plants, herbs and flowers mixed into each container with the tomato plants. Look at how Mother Nature mixes everything up together. On the eastern edge of our woodland, for example, we have native pecan and oak trees growing as the dominant plants, but underneath them we have wild cherries, American persimmons, possumhaw hollies, and redbuds, and beneath those understory trees we have American beautyberry bushes, native blackberries, inland sea oats and brushy bluestem, peppervines and several native wildflowers which ebb and flow with the seasons. All of them happily co-exist. Why can't our gardens be the same way? To garden bio-intensively in this manner, you need to pay careful attention to soil fertility and irrigation (if adequate rainfall is not being received). Obviously when you interplant several types of edible crops together, the plants will be competing with one another. I get smaller onions in interplanted beds than I get from onions grown in a monoculture with recommended spacing, but still get tons of onions. We still have several dozen onions from last year's crop, though now they are starting to sprout. There pretty much is nothing grown in our veggie garden that isn't interplanted with several other things. If I ever were to plant even one single monoculture bed, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like the way it looked and would be out there trying to fix the bed by adding more stuff to it. In fact, I do have my onions planted as monoculture beds right now, but that is because they are the only thing I've put into the ground so far this year. The onions will not be alone in those beds for long. Hope this helps , Dawn...See Morelat62
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