celticnoodle
yes, I can imagine a kid digging into the plant and killing it. lol. Many memories of my nieces and nephews doing just this and honestly, I can even remember doing it myself when I was about 4 or 5 yoa to my mothers gorgeous ivy plant. I picked all the leaves off it--and she had it wrapped around the stairway spindles and going all the way up the stairs and then across again--from what I can tell by pictures where it was still intact--beautiful. Then, I got ahold of it, when we were "playing house" and I was cooking! lol. All that was left was mostly the stems, sadly.I have a chocolate mint in a pot on my kitchen windowsill, as well as a lemon balm plant (aka Melissa). Both are lovely in tea and lemon balm is an excellent herbal for upset tummies and colds and flu as well as an antidepressant and very calming! [emoji3]
I would love to grow more herbs but I've just started developing my green thumb so I'm not very confident! Plus I can't take up much more room on the windowsill as the cats sit up there!
I'm worried my 3yo would destroy plants in the backyard if I planted any. I had to move my cactus in a pot because he'd hit it with sticks!
I should plant some out in the front yard though.
oh yes, and don't forget the wonderful dandelion weed too! Edible - and used often in salads as well as making dandelion tea/wine! (but, I'm not happy with the taste tbh).A lot of weeds are herbs as well. Like Cleavers, last spring it was all through the front yard so I harvested heaps, dried at lot, juiced most of it and took a week long lymph cleanse! Its a nutritious green as well! Cleavers, aka Velcro plant, is a great lymphatic cleanser and is quite nice as a fresh tea, so refreshing!
There are heaps of weeds that are actually herbals and are nutritious and have amazing benefits!
They're easy to grow too! [emoji6]
(My thumb is pretty ungreen but I'm slowly learning!)
Its great to read so many people grow herbs. I love using herbs in cooking too. I really should get a proper herb garden started!
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