A real compassionate herb gardener will consider giving their plant babies some friends. The definition of companion planting is the close planting of different plants that enhance each other’s growth and/or protect them from pests. There is a whole fascinating study of companion planting, and I...
Understory plantingMedicinal plantsMetabolomeTranscriptomeSustainable developmentUnderstory cultivation pattern of medicinal plants is a kind of planting mode which makes full use of land resources, light, and heat resources. This planting mode is under the forest on the basis of fully understanding the ...
You might not be familiar withcomfrey, but it’s a medicinal herb that was valued by the ancient Greeks. They used this herb to heal wounds, broken bones, respiratory issues, and gastrointestinal problems. That’s quite a list of properties attached to comfrey, making it a potent herb for ...
We also will be doing group forages, workshops and interactive polls." Green Path Herb School Photo by Tim Umphreys on Unsplash Green Path Herb School The school itself is located in Missoula, Montana but their website brings their knowledge to you anywhere on earth. Courses, blogs, videos a...
(Pot Marigold, Orange Calendula) Native to southern Europe, flowering orange to 18 inches tall. Test of commercial planting in 2024: Direct seeded April 10, first significant harvest June 16th, a 70-day induction period. I see why herbalists like this variety best–I had sticky fingers after...
True Comfrey is the original herb as detailed in all the ancient literature. Traditional usage (TWM): used externally to speed healing. Source of allantoin, which proliferates cell growth, making things grow faster, which is one of the reasons it is so often employed in an orchard and ...
In addition, the 1:1 tomato–aromatic plant companion setups boosted the growth of tomato plants without the accumulation of competition pressure. Under certain circumstances, however, temporal phytotoxic effects could be experienced due to the incorporation of aromatic herb biomass. Nevertheless, other...