that is an extremely upsetting picture 
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Living organic soil from start through recycling
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You're just an anti-wrinkle and anti-aging HATER!!
Coot;
I did not notice if you answered the question concerning using Yarrow leaves along with the flowers. I'm curious why it is primarily the flower which is of value for this application.
Where I lived in the interior mountains white yarrow abounded and I often used the leaves and flowers in a tea to chase off a fever or cold. I cured and included the leaves in a smoking mixture with mullien and kinnikinik (Uva ursi) which I traded to my North American native friends for various food stuffs. I was originally taught to make this mixture by a guy named Kitipoo (sp?). He told me it was better to pick the kinnikinik leaves which had changed color (red usually).
He was a white raised by natives since a young child. Interestingly visually you could not tell he was white..so much so that he garnered a few bit parts in some hollywood movies. When I met him he was in his 80s.
I later added hemp to the mix making it more popular.
I did not notice if you answered the question concerning using Yarrow leaves along with the flowers. I'm curious why it is primarily the flower which is of value for this application.
Where I lived in the interior mountains white yarrow abounded and I often used the leaves and flowers in a tea to chase off a fever or cold. I cured and included the leaves in a smoking mixture with mullien and kinnikinik (Uva ursi) which I traded to my North American native friends for various food stuffs. I was originally taught to make this mixture by a guy named Kitipoo (sp?). He told me it was better to pick the kinnikinik leaves which had changed color (red usually).
He was a white raised by natives since a young child. Interestingly visually you could not tell he was white..so much so that he garnered a few bit parts in some hollywood movies. When I met him he was in his 80s.
I later added hemp to the mix making it more popular.
Quite a difference in native ground where one would drop in a trout and then bury it allowing for the time it takes for the transplants roots to actually reach the BY NOW decomposed fish compared to the restricted environment of indoor pots.
I've dropped my dead cichlids in house plants and out of curiosity would (at random) check the decomposition at various times...that's quite different than globs of blood etc.....yeah I was one of those kids that would dig up my dead dog a year or two later to see how far along decomposition had taken him....
Who hoo...MM's back.....another 'hater' dispelling myth all up in my thread and shat man..
Thank you!
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glad to see you back
glad to see you back
all natural
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Thats around my neck of the woods. I think what i saw near my place is all queens anne lace after a closer inspection yesterday. So thanks gascan for the warning because I might have just assumed they were yarrow. Im going to take the bike out later this week and search for yarrow,horsetail and stinging nettle. A little adventure for myself. I can find lots of dandelions and i think I read in one of these threads that they were good to use too?
Yarrow will have many flowering tops - up to 30 on a single plant.
Queen Anne's Lace
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YosemiteSam
I just gotta say I am so happy I found this thread.
I had one of those lightbulb moments this morning.. alfalfa is not just NPK. It foamed like a bitch when I added water to it...obviously a lot more going on
I just gotta find a little more efficient way to make bigger quantities of these teas
I had one of those lightbulb moments this morning.. alfalfa is not just NPK. It foamed like a bitch when I added water to it...obviously a lot more going on
I just gotta find a little more efficient way to make bigger quantities of these teas
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+2! (feel like i'm learning more already)
Just came back from my local nursery and all the comfrey and nettles was gone. I did pick up thyme, rosemary and dandelions. As I was talking to one of the employees and she stated comfrey can be used as a fert. We ended up having a great conversation on using plants material as amendments and prevention tools. It was like talking with CC and Gas. I dedicated one of my raised beds to hold all my new goodies. Yucca is next... Any suggestions on other worthwhile goodies to source?
Alfalfa's saponin levels are about 30,000 ppm - there's the foaming you're seeing.
Try Horse Chestnut powder sometime - 150,000 ppm - only add 1/4 tsp to a 5-gallon tank of water or do your brewing outdoors - seriously.
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^^^^ yucca grows next to cactus in my neck of the woods Neo. there are probably plenty of different types of yucca, but i can say that the bocking 14 in my back yard likes water WAY more than the local yucca. i hope it works out for ya! are you sure that they are going to do well in the same bed?
Not sure but I'm going to give it a try. My others beds are filled up with veggies. In the past I stayed away from herbs because when I planted basil I had a slug invasion so I said screw herbs but I gotta change that mindset. If there is some issue I guess I'll throw in a container pot.
Great article on using thyme And bio agents as disease control....( thanks coot )
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ijaf.20120202.07.html
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ijaf.20120202.07.html
hey 'stan, hope you don't mind if i crash your thread with a couple pics.
these buds were harvested very recently and are still curing. grown in a 22.5" tall cabinet with a vertically oriented HPS running at 250w during the early summer months in a micro bed of living soil that has been recycled 4--5 times at this point.
here is my desert-before-bedtime favorite: to x bmr:
these lovely flowers were harvested from a punto rojo x afghani plant:
these buds were harvested very recently and are still curing. grown in a 22.5" tall cabinet with a vertically oriented HPS running at 250w during the early summer months in a micro bed of living soil that has been recycled 4--5 times at this point.
here is my desert-before-bedtime favorite: to x bmr:
these lovely flowers were harvested from a punto rojo x afghani plant:
Anytime my man~...looks like the second round of pollen chucking went a bit better. Used the smaller pheno male BMR...it's better.
These are getting the same reviews all over...sweet potent...nappy time herb. Also getting reports of pain relief...a big + IMO.
Darc's stuff looks freakin' awesome also...~
Completely anecdotal so not too relevant but my personal experience with using a specific oil vs. using raw plant material as oil is that the raw plant has given me better results.
Again - anecdotal
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