Create with your hands
Create with your hands
Oh. To grow your own plants and be able to get your hands in some dirt, isn’t that one of life’s greatest pleasures. Growing plants is a wonderful thing, you take a tiny seed and you let it sprout and grow into a lush and healthy plant. Whether you prefer ornamental plants like flowers or non-edible plants, or you prefer edible plants like vegetables or herbs. Any plant is a magical plant and will bring joy to your life by caring for it and seeing it flourish.
Can’t grow your own, then forage your own.
But unfortunately, not all of us always have space or the time to grow vegetables or fruit. Because although balconies and windowsills can hold a lot of plants not everyone wants to garden like that. And maybe, more importantly, you might only have windows that face north, and therefore it will be frustratingly difficult to get any plant to grow. But fear not, you can still forage for a lot of wild edibles and have some connection with growing things in that way. I personally grow some of my own herbs and vegetables and forage for other edibles.
So go and plant or forage your own lovely fruits, veggies, flowers, nuts, or just take a moment to breathe in the fresh air.
Growing a herbal tea garden is a fantastic way to start gardening since herbs are fairly easy to grow. Grow herbs in your windowsill or in your backyard. Attract beneficial insects increasing the biodiversity of your home. And be rewarded with delicious organic cups of herbal tea to be enjoyed while watching the butterflies.
Growing a garden in winter isn’t as strange as it might seem at first glance. Since in most gardening zones, the winters are mild enough for the hardier plants to survive and sometimes even thrive. But how do you create a winter garden, and which plants do you want to plant?
If you are lucky enough to have a garden, you’ll probably feel unlucky enough to also have weeds in said garden. But why do we despise weeds anyway? Weeds are actually very beneficial for wildlife, and plenty of them are edible or are actually very pretty when they flower. So why not give them a chance and allow a little bit more weeds in our garden and our life.
If you’ve ever tried to grow plants from seeds, you will be well aware that growing from seed can be confusing at times. Especially if it seems that your seedlings stop growing after a while. So how do you get your seedlings to start growing again?
Even though in the winter it is cold outside. It is in the winter you want to start planning your garden. Because when the weather warms up, you want to be able to start immediately. Without having to think about where and what you want to plant. But how do you even plan if you’re currently renting and can’t alter the yard?
Growing up I had never seen or heard about a hawthorn, mainly because in the Netherlands there aren’t that many. But in Ireland, they are everywhere. You see them in the parks, and next to the roads, sometimes they’re thin and small and other times tall and unruly. But the blossom makes the whole countryside come alive, the clusters of white flowers that filled every nook and cranny. Later I saw the berries and wondered if I could eat them. Turns out you can!
Nettles are your best friend. In times past, people believed that they purified the blood, got rid of rheumatism, helped with long and airway problems, and much more. It depends on the specific area of what type of other ailments people believed it cured, but they all believed that it was an all-round good herb. But people have now figured out that there is actually merit to some uses of nettle, namely hay fever.
We all love plants and especially when we have a plant, or a friend has a plant that we like very much, we want a second. Then, what better way is there to get a second, then to take a plant cutting. Because when we take a cutting, you will be able to get a copy of the plant. As opposed to when you use that plant’s seed, which is that plants child and will be slightly different.