In this post, you’ll learn how to forage for mullein flowers, leaves, and roots, then how to harvest and preserve them! Common mullein (Verbascum thapsus) is a favorite summer plant to forage! It has a unique look and lots of healthy benefits. Once you learn about mullein and the things you can make from it,…
Yedikule lettuce is a highly interesting heirloom plant well worth trying at least once! It adds a bit of bright green to your salads, has a nice, mild flavor, and is an easy to grow, no-fuss plant to have in your garden. Yedikule Lettuce Annual | Lettuce | (Lactuca sativa) Seeds obtained from- Baker Creek…
May’s such a lovely month! We’ve got flowers, we’ve got early crops to harvest and eat, we’ve got sunshine and warm weather again… It’s a good month for getting things done! Of course, that’s assuming your power didn’t get knocked out by a surprise storm, like ours did. Good for getting spinning done! Not so…
April decided to throw some surprise cold weather at us this year, and then flipped over to switch things up with about three days of summer-like heat, which massively delayed all garden projects for the whole month. Oh, well, at least it’s nice outside now! Gardening I haven’t gotten to transplant my warm-weather crops like…
Use some foraged early spring greens to make a lovely little lip balm! Violet leaves, purple deadnettle, and chickweed combine with sweet almond, tamanu, and castor oil to create a soothing balm for chapped lips. Infused Oil First, you’ll want to make an infused oil to use in the lip balm. You will need: 1…
As nice as it would be for every passing project idea I have to work out perfectly, unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. This just so happens to be the latest of my failures: the answer to ‘can you make jelly out of spicebush flowers?’ I tried two experiments before ultimately deciding that, at least for…