Guest guest Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Do you grow herbs? Yes If so,how do you harvest and preserve them? My wife and I use the culinary herbs as needed. In other words we walk outside pick some basil or thyme or sage or rosemary ..... and add it to whatever is cooking. I dry some herbs. I dry white sage, mullein, wild dagga, Mexican Tarragon, hops and a few other herbs. Do you grow/use medicinal herbs? Yes, comfrey, feverfew, allheal and quite a few others. Of course many herbs that are considered culinary also have medicinal uses. I don't use them too extensively although I have tons of books and even glassware to do steam distillation, etc. It's just a matter of time. However I really like just growing them. Let's see, a few others I grow include witch hazel, tea tree, stinging nettle, tansy, hyssop, evening primrose, joe pye weed, lemon verbena, quite a variety of sages, belladonna, hemlock (well, the current one has died and I must go gather some seeds), orris, chicory, ephedra, datura (no plans to actually use this one), monkshood, mugwort, motherwort (I think there is still some surviving), wood betony, ayuhuasca, black lovage and lovage, goldenrod, chives, valerian, vervain and others I don't remember at the moment. Many of my mints and a bay laurel have done really badly this year and I don't know why. I must figure that out. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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