Medicinal Herb Garden

Many of us have a few culinary herbs growing in our gardens but would you like to grow 14 really useful herbs in a small space and learn how to use them for your own health beauty and well being.

Medicinal herb garden. Dalmatian sage also known as garden sage is the kind most often grown for kitchen harvests. Feel free to amend the soil of your medicinal herb garden with compost and aged manure. Read more here plants. We are a feature of ugarden an organic student teaching farm at the university of georgia in athens ga.

What herbs to grow for an indoor medicinal herb garden the same herbs that you can cook with every day you will also be able to make tinctures teas washes and salves with. Cough syrup with the very same herbs that are growing on my countertop. Here are the top 20 best herbs to grow for beginners and how to grow and use them. Our mission is to teach students about medicinal herb production and business practices that enrich communities and create social change one herb at a time.

Every medicinal garden should include chamomile yarrow lemon balm echinacea and peppermint. For centuries herbs have been used to cure ailments and soothe sicknesses. How and why to plan create a medicinal herb garden. These five basics are safe and effective for the vast majority of people when used as simple teas poultices or salves.

There are many easy to grow easy to use herbs that you can harvest and prepare to treat minor illnesses. People use this medicinal herb as a useful remedy for a scratchy tender throat. By dafydd monks bsc hons. Having an herb garden filled with medicinal plants is a way to grow your own healing garden where you can pick your own herbal and natural remedies.

There s no way i can cover everything on how to plan and especially how to plant your wellness herb garden but we ll cover some of the basics. Sage is also known as salvia but not all varieties are grown for culinary use. When planning your medicinal garden deciding whether to start plants form seeds or seedling comes down to cost and availability. Planning and planting a medicinal herb garden can take care of many of your wellness and healing needs.

Seeds are definitely the most economic way to go. We grow over 40 different medicinal herbs teaching students and community. If this article merely gets your green thumb tingling i highly encourage you to visit our medicinal herb gardening hub which is a lush garden in its own right a virtual library filled with herbal gardening wisdom and resources. I often make cough drops and one of our family favorites.

Over time medicinal herb knowledge has waned but in recent years we ve seen a resurgence of those interested in growing medicinal herb gardens.