WHEN & HOW TO HARVEST HERBS FOR MEDICINAL USES
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2020
- Knowing when to harvest your medicinal herbs is different depending on what part of the plant you'll be using for medicinal purposes.
For some herbs, it's essential to harvest them before they flower, others you want to harvest just as the flowers are blooming, while others you will actually let completely die back in order to harvest the roots.
Follow along as Carolyn walks you through the Cottage Garden, showing you how she harvests each herb or plant and what they can be used for.
For more info about medicinal herbs you can grow yourself, check out our blog post: homesteadingfamily.com/15-med...
And to learn how to dry fresh herbs, visit this post: homesteadingfamily.com/how-to...
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Thankyou for the information, I all so enjoyed the hidden cat in the garden 🏡 🐱
Thankyou so much for sharing herbs to help illnesses.❤❤❤
Thank you so much for this!!! Would you be open to doing another when it comes time to harvest your root plants?
Wonderful and super helpful! Can you do a part 2 (and 3 and 4) when you process them in the kitchen into tinctures or oils? Especially expounding on the mullein and earaches recipe.
I have st. john's wort. I found out that it is basically the same as prescription anti depressant/anxiety medication. Taken together could give overdose symptoms!
What medicine is the bee balm for and how do you use it?
GOOD BLESSINGS THOMAS FAMILY!! THESE VIDS ARE AWESOMEMORE!!!!
I take a lot of inspiration for developing my healing and cottage garden from y'all as well as my regular vegetable and fruit gardens. Thanks for taking the time to teach us
That is my favorite thing to sit in the garden and have some quite time. Time to just look and observe. Give thanks etc... your pottag garden is beautiful
Lots of great tips, Carolyn. Thank you!!
I really love your videos. You are a great teacher. Thank you
ahhh...u stopped right before the hyssop lol....i was excited to hear what to do with it...we have it everywhere!!!... please tell when u get a chance...thank you so much!!!
Wonderful as always thank you!!
Such a tremendous blessing to share this information! Thank you so much!
Thank for this lovely video.
My mother has been making Saint John’s Worth oil for decades and we use it for everything. Bumps, burns, leg circulation, earache... even after chemotherapy when the hair doesn’t grow back i have seen a friend applying it to her scalp and have amazing results. She infuses it over the summer months in olive oil.
I couldn’t go without it with little ones!
I love love love this video! I was taking notes. I'm new to gardening and herbs. Would love more of these . I bought a lot of different herbs that was on your list and didn't know what to do with them. When to harvest and what part to harvest. Thank you so much!
God bless you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge. You have helped many!
Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge!! You are such a blessing and I try to use the knowledge or share it with my daughter who has four boys of her own!
Awesome video thank you for sharing
I love your videos, and am following your cottage garden closely. I started one myself this spring after watching your videos from last summer. I know borage has lots of great uses but it gives me an intense rash. I have heard others say the same thing. But everything else I have planted in my garden as well, as was just trying to remember what to do with it all. thanks for posting this.
Thank you so much !!!!
I am in Victoria, Australia and in my State as well as some others, St John’s wort is classified as a noxious weed so we cant get it other than in Teas or capsules. I do have the Borage growing though.
Thank you 😇🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I am homeless right now, but I would love to grow my own medicinal herbs to help my patients with costs.
Thanks for another informative video! Have you ever used elecampane leaf? The modern herbal dispensatory book you recommended (I think) mentions you can make a tincture e from the leaf, but I wonder if it works as well as the root. Thanks for any info!
Thanks
The view there is amazing! I wish my husband didn’t have to work in CDA and we could live farther north.
I know this comment is old, have you thought about a greenhouse? I saw a video of a guy in Toronto growing mangos and peaches in his greenhouse!
I have so much to learn about herbs! What to grow, how and what to harvest, how to preserve and prepare...I have your cold and flu course, but will you be offering an herbs course covering all the things we need to know about “all things herbs”?
Look up Dr. John R. CHRISTOPHER on CZcams and his herb book. He's a master herbalist. It's great for the information part.
If like to know what i need to do to grow mullein. I've tried transplanting it in hopes that it will reproduce and it dies off. Sometimes it will go dormant and return in the spring but only that year. I had 3 flower last year, and nothing return. What soil matter is best. Grows in the ditches here, but i don't want anything sprayed.
Also i gave a friend some comfrey one year, she ate some leaves and got sick, someone else told she ate borage and that it is poisonous. How do i know the difference. Mine had white bell shaped flower clusters, not blue like yours. I appreciate all the info. Thank you
I just clipped some herbs this morning to dry out. I kick myself for not buying more lemon balm. .
Ty~🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
When you collect fresh elderberries and you are going to make syrup, can you use your steamer to get the juice out?
I have a question about tinctures, I know the concept of making one and allowing it to sit for 4 to 6 weeks, but after 4 weeks is up and I strain my herbs into a mason jar, how do I use a tincture or administer it? I'm a beginner.
Which is better, to make a tincture when harvested fresh, or dry and then tincture later?
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I’m praying for him 🙏🏼
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How is he doing?
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Question: Carolyn, I was wondering if you had an easy way to manage some of those herbs that are invasive? Like the mint or lemon balm. I have sowed mine all in large pots but I know they would love to have real soil in the earth. Any hacks would be fabulous! Thanks for all your videos, so helpful! Your cottage garden is beautiful!
Many people cut the bottoms off of 5 gallon buckets, drill holes in the sides near the bottom and dig a huge hole to drop the bucket into. Leave about 4 inches of the bucket above the ground and fill it with a good soil, like amended potting soil. Place the plant into the center of the buried bucket. This will keep plants like those in the mint family contained for a while.
Also, if you have an area where you don't care if the plant spreads, plant there. The front of my house has a rather steep hill where I originally planned to plant some ground cover but opted for aggressive herbs and hope they spread enough to be my ground cover.
How do you harvest the root? I'd like to not lose the whole plant.
Hi! First off I LOVE you videos. Your family does a wonderful job. ❤️ question for you. Do you have a book recommendation for what jobs different herbs are used for? I’m a serious beginner. I am planning my spring herb garden and am wanting to know what to start with.
lol. I just found your 30+ books video! Thanks again!
Look up Dr. John R. CHRISTOPHER ON CZcams... He has a big book as well.
Hi Carolyn
Thank you so much for sharing your videos! There are so many herbs and for me it is overwhelming. Where do you start? I garden a little this year( tomatoes, green beans , squash) very little luck. Having my soil tested in the fall . I am trying to educate myself but I also need help! Can you give me some advise? And a little encouragement? Thank you so much ! God Bless!
Hi Rebecca. I hope you don’t mind me answering your post. First, do you have an Extension Service in your area? (Type in Extension Service and your county and state into a search engine). they are there to help gardeners and farmers. Gardening can be very overwhelming. Start small and start with herbs and vegetables you love the most. It can always grow from there. Also, even the most seasoned gardener has failures so don’t give up! Meeting farmers at farmers markets is a great way to get advice. Hope this helps a little.
Jennifer Summerfield
Thank you so much! That helps a lot. I want to do so much especially with herbs , in healing your family. It gets overwhelming! Thanks again!
God bless!
So when you harvest the Mullein for example and you harvest the leaves for a first year plant, they will grow back? And then the next year, if you harvest the leaves, will they still flower so you can harvest the flower later in the season too?
What is the big tall, 3ft leaf plant at about 9 mins???
Would you happen to know what type of nettle root would be used by old timers in Mississippi for cutting into beads that are strung on sewing thread and used to make a teething necklace for infants? My great aunt used to get them and they worked wonders. Sadly, I never learned what plant it was.
It’s called bull nettle
Can I lacto ferment onions?
On the Mullan plant is that something wild, or something I can purchase ?
Both try baker creek herbs
Hey Carolyn, my 10 month old daughter has a eczema on her neck which gets worse as the weather heats up. What herbal remedy mix would you recommend for her? Thank you from Natalie
Hi! I'm so sorry she's dealing with that! unfortunately, I cannot give medical adivce. I would recommend you seeking out a naturopath or herbalist in your area.
In Australia I have never heard of Monada or Beebong? Does it have any other names.
More on it here: homesteadingfamily.com/15-medicinal-herbs-to-grow/
What’s a good book that you explains when and how to harvest medicinal herbs?
Here are some we recommend: homesteadingfamily.com/best-homesteading-books/
@@HomesteadingFamilyThank you so much.
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How did you know I was wondering how to do this today ??
I’ve never seen catnip so tall. Every time I try to grow catnip my cat pulverizes it. Your cat’s not interested in it?