Embrace the shade
Don’t depair if your backyard isn’t bathed in sunlight. Many medicinal herbs thrive in partial shade, including lemon balm, mint, skullcap, sweet woodruff and thyme.
Start Small, start simple
Begin with a few easy-to-grow herbs, like rosemary, lavender, and calendula. As you gain confidence, you can expand your collection.
Observe and learn
Pay close attention to how hearts grow and respond to their environment. Keep a journal to make note of eaches plants unique needs, and preferences. Research their medicinal properties, history, and folklore and record your insights.
Connect with community
Join a local gardening club or community garden. Sharing knowledge and resources with other gardners can be incredibly rewarded.
Grow what you need
Consider what ailments or conditions you’d like to address with your herbal remedies. Camomile can a great ally for stress, headaches, and sleep. Peppermint can calm an upset stomach and sooth nausea.
Harvest with intention
When harvesting your herbs, do so with gratitude and respect; this will enhance healing properties.
Make it a sensory experience
Engage your senses. Smell the herbs, feel their textures, taste the leaves, and observe their growth.
Melinda
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Great advice!
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Thank you.
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thank you for sharing
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You’re very welcome. :)
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We were blessed to have lots of mint and rosemary come with the house. The mint is prolific. The rosemary can dry out in areas with too much sun, but we have lots. I LOVE basil and still have a plant I got from the grocery store last year and put in the greenhouse. It’s gotten leggy though. I’m glad to read that lavender is easy. That’s one I’m going to add.
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I love to pick several different herbs and keep them in a small vase to keep the smell alive.
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<3 Good idea!
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I rub the basil to increase the smell.
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Mmmm. It might make me hungry.
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It takes me to the garden, then to Italy. I’ve used basil in all my Italian dishes and now that’s what I think about. Traveling there, tasting the great food and seeing the sights.
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I started a small garden this year
Growing herbs, flowers, peppers and tomatoes
It’s been good, I’m learning a lot
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A small garden is cozy and gives you the chance to see what flourishes.
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I don’t really have space for more, but it’s definitely fun
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That’s perfect, you learn and grow from your small one and when you get a chance for a larger garden, you’ll be ready.
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Fingers crossed
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