Herb Garden – Before and After
Ok, if you think creating, designing, planting and caring for a herb garden is hard, PLEASE take a look at the photos below. Assuming you have herbs that are suitable to your environment, you should be fine. Now, by “suitable” I mean, there’s probably a slim chance that you’ll get some Basil herbs growing in Antarctica. Here is what the herb garden looked like JUST before completion: Here is what the herb garden looks like after 6 months of...
Read MoreGall Bladder Care – Milk Thistle
Even though adding the Milk Thistle (similar in appearance to this photo) to your herb garden will add some color, it’s not this plant or herb (or possibly even weed) that will improve your gall bladder‘s health. It’s the extract from this plant (mostly liquid) that helps protect and detoxify your liver and your gall bladder. A lot of herbalists recommend using this extract to help fight fatty liver which is associated with heavy drinking. Your gall bladder plays an important role in the breaking down of fats in the food you ingest due to the bile that the gall bladder...
Read MoreHerbs That Detoxify
by Amy A.May Once the kidneys are detoxified, a healthy flow of nutrients are free to make their way to the scalp where they promote healthy hair growth. Here are list of the top 10 most effective herbs for detoxification. 1. Camomile – a great relaxant and good for the stomach, which helps if you’re tense. It reduces inflammation and it’s a tissue healer – inhale the azulenes given off in the steam to soothe the inflamed mucous membranes of the nose, throat and chest. 2. Skullcap – skutellaria – improves functioning of nervous system; calming effect-...
Read MoreHerb Garden – Step 5 – Look after it
Well, I finished the herb garden, and it’s been growing for a while. Here are photos that I thought would show you what the herb garden looks like. There are a couple of things to note regarding the herb garden: It needs some water at least a couple of times a week in Summer, but it’s winter here, and it seems to survive on water once a week You have to remove the weeds and other unwanted growth – this includes removing the grass that you’ll find growing in the actual herb garden Be careful with what herbs you use – My mint is growing like CRAZY!!! Luckily still...
Read MoreHerb Garden – Step 4 – Plant the herbs
This section is the fun section. And here’s what I did: 1 – Dug holes in between the paving stones where I was planting the herbs 2 – Filled these holes with a mixture of potting soil, river sand and top soil (ratio of 1:1:5) 3 – Made space in the “now filled in” holes for the herbs to be planted (as they are fully grown already) 4 – Put the herbs in the holes in the new mixture, keeping as much of the original soil that the herbs came in as possible 5 – Filled the gaps around the herbs with more top soil and patted it down to get rid of air...
Read MoreHerb Garden – Step 3 – Laying the stepping stones
It probably seems strange that this step would come at this part of the process. The reason I am doing this now is because My “soil” is not really soil, more a sandy clay. So, instead of digging the whole section up and replacing this mixture with proper soil (obviously a preferred process), I’ve decided to only use soil where I am planting the herbs. So, as you can see in the images below, I am creating “sections” where I will be putting each type of herb. To prevent this herb garden from being monotonous, I am using the stepping stones to create these...
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