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Hanging Gardens of Nebuchad Lisa

Just a short post to tell you about an idea from one of my wife’s pals. This lady, who is a real go-getter, decided she wanted to grow veggies and herbs in her tiny courtyard. She measured one of the walls fronting the courtyard and off she went to her local building supplier and bought guttering and brackets long enough for the wall space available and got her husband to help her put up the guttering on the walls as blind gutters and fill the profiles with a good soil mix.

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Indoor Gardening and Food Safety

Indoor Garden I ndoor Gardening and Food Safety With the many health benefits that a low carb diet has been demonstrated to provide, more and more people want to eat fresh vegetables these days. For some, this gives them the chance to combine their love of plants with a healthy diet by growing these vegetables themselves. Those who do not have a large enough outdoor area for a garden may still be able to have an indoor garden

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Rowan – Its Berries Catch Birds

Rowan Mountain Ash, Rowan ROSACEAE Sorbus aucuparia Comment How often does nature not compensate for its bounty by imposing other strictures. The lovely Rowan is no exception to this phenomenon – its small white flowers have a most off-putting smell when approached closely

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Aspen – Balm of Gilead?

Aspen Aspen SALICACEAE Populus tremula Appearance The alternating, almost circular leaves possess bluntly toothed or wavy borders and emphatically sideways-flattened petioles, which tremble in the least breeze: they adorn a small deciduous tree with flat bark – at the onset yellowish but then developing darkish grey highlights. The female blooms have purple stigmas. The flowers unfold before the leaves emerge.

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Radish – as a Herbal Remedy

radish CRUCIFERAE/BRASSlCACEAERaphanussativus Garden Radish Appearance The leaves and stalk of the grden radish are stiffly fuzzy.

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Herbal Remedies – Lungwort Not Just For Lungs

Lungwort Lungwort BORAGINACEAE Pulmonaria officinalis True to the doctrine of signatures , lungwort both resembles and heals lungs. But it does a lot more than that: Appearance A perennial herb with bell-shaped blossoms are arranged in terminal monochasial cymes. They are pink at first, then blue after ertilization.

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Yarrow – First Among Natural Herbal Remedies?.. Part 2

Yarrow Border External use Externally a decoction is used as a herbal remedy to deal with slow-healing cuts, skin rashes and eczema, chapped skin and in the form of a gargle and bath additive. Yarrow should be consumed in moderation and not for long periods because doing so might cause skin itching.

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One Of The Oldest Herbal Remedies

Rhubarb – also “pie plant” – is valued for use in pies, tarts, and sauces as well as herbal remedies. Only the petioles are eaten, whereas herbal solutions use the leaves and roots

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