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 Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:17 pm
About a week ago, I purchased some grown herbs at the local Home Depot and they're doing splendid! I have plant them in my garden along with my other flowers and such. There are still a few seeds that I want to plant in pots before I replant them in my garden with the rest of my plants, but they have to grow a bit before they're ready.
I'm so excited! I've also purchased a few gardening and herb books (witchie and otherwise) so that I can read up and know a thing or two about how to grow, harvest, and preserve the herbs I'm working with.
What are you all growing? Are your herbs (and/or other plants) for nutritional, medicinal, magical, or decorative purposes? Do you have any gardens? What were your most successful (and least successful) plants? What do you hope to grow in the future?
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:49 pm
I have peas, carrots, potatoes, summer squash, zucchini, corn, beets, chard, kale, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, nasturtiums, rosemary, motherwort, mugwort, chamomile, fever few, watermelon, grapes, roses, radishes, turnips, broccoli raab, bush beans and a couple other things too.
What witchy books did you get?
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:06 pm
I purchased a few witchie books, but I don't exactly remember the titles of them. >.< (The bookstore I work at can get me books for incredibly cheap, so I got a few just to try them out.) When I get them in the mail or remember the titles, I'll post them here. :3 I think one of them was Herbalism for Beginners or something like that.
Any you'd recommend?
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:31 pm
castling I purchased a few witchie books, but I don't exactly remember the titles of them. >.< (The bookstore I work at can get me books for incredibly cheap, so I got a few just to try them out.) When I get them in the mail or remember the titles, I'll post them here. :3 I think one of them was Herbalism for Beginners or something like that.
Any you'd recommend? I haven't seen any witchy ones that were that good- so I was hoping you could recommend a good one to me. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:37 pm
Bahaha. >.< I really wouldn't take any advice or recommendations from me just yet. I feel like I'm wandering in the dark when it comes to finding good and creditable books on paganism, witchcraft, etc. >.<
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:50 am
My mother has her own garden. 4laugh
She made me want to own one as well. But the only place I can do that is on my balcony. But they wouldn't get their daily sun there. So I'm afraid they'll end up dead.
I've had plants before, but they died. sad
I don't know yet what kind of things I'd like to grow in the future. I do hope I have a bigger garden and no balcony in the future tho.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:47 pm
I grow an assortment of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and other plants, for various purposes. Mostly for cooking and medicine, though.
I have broccoli, carrots, arugula, peppers, snow peas, pumpkins, acorn squash, cucumbers, radishes, onions, scallions, garlic, mushrooms, barley, raspberries, strawberries, lemons, apples, and rhubarb. As well as basil, dill, rosemary, thyme, cilantro, parsley, chamomile, catnip, sage, sorrel, euphorbia, ginseng, devil's trumpet, belladonna, cumin, henna, maca, and cannabis. ^_^
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:17 am
In my pots and planters I planted rosemary, tarragon, catnip, lemon balm, lemon verbena, lavender, basil, dill and aloe. They are for a mix of purposes. I use them for culinary, sometimes medicinal and magical reasons. My basil always seems to do well, as did the lemon balm. Lavender and Rosemary were pretty good this year too. Tarragon did okay, but next year I don't think I will have it sharing a pot with rosemary. My dill however didn't make it.
I have a vegetable garden where we grow peppers ( bell and hot), peas, beans, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini and lettuces. These are nutritional. This year the beans and tomatoes have been the most successful in the garden while the zucchini didn't do well at all.
When my husband and I buy a house I hope to plant some sunflowers, roses and lilacs. I would also love to add corn and acorn squashes to the garden. As for herbs I may try to grow some spearmint and chamomile next year.
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