Tag: growyourmedicine
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Our first big-time success for the new year
Even though the heat is on this Summer, we’ve had more success with Ginger, Turmeric and Galangal than we’ve ever had. We’ve tried growing each before, with limited success…very limited. This year though, we got some Galangal and Ginger rhizomes with well developed buds from an Indian supermarket. They were grown locally so they had…
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We’re having babies!
Hopefully lots and lots! Baby mushrooms that is… A while back, I did a workshop at Slape’s Mushroom House and learned all about growing King Stropharia mushrooms in the garden. When I was there I bought a bunch of Blue Oyster grain spawn that I added to pasturize sugar came mulch and jammed it into…
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Freedom from constipation and a cure for colds both from the same tree.
Can you guess which tree both of these come from?
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Kangaroo Apple (Solanum aviculare)
Family: Solanaceae Habitat: Forest margins, woodland edges Description and uses: Kangaroo Apple (Solanum aviculare) is one of the amazing Solanum family which gives us so much of our food and lots of our medicines. It’s a bushy plant that grows to around 3 metres tall down this way but may be bigger elsewhere. Kangaroo Apple has deeply lobed…
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A litre of Lavender tincture and a litre of Wild Lettuce tincture in the making.
5 more days and they’re done… via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BrohxpBlHBF/
