for you to leave a comment, but you can also e-mail me at lynn AT thehealthyhomeschool.com
This is just a little page where I keep track of my herbal and garden pursuits.
- Make new violet tincture
- Put up plenty of plantain this summer
- Try frying some dandelion flowers soon
Order Juliette of the Herbs from Ash Tree Publishing- Plant nasturtiums
Pot up Siberian iris for sale- Find Duchesse de Brabant rose
- Check to see if currants will grow here
- Plant calendula
- Stock up on dried calendula petals
Lynn 
2 responses so far ↓
1 Angela // Aug 3, 2008 at 8:19 am
How do you put up your plantain? I have so much of it growing in my yard and we use it frequently throughout the summer months, but some winter we have to buy salves with it already in it. Is ther esome special way to dry it? Do you make tinctures? Oils?
2 admin // Aug 4, 2008 at 8:44 am
Angela,
Right now I am working on a solar-infused oil. I am a bit worried about mold, but that’s only a possibility. I let the freshly picked plantain wilt a bit to decrease moisture, put it in olive oil in a tighly closed jar and will let it sit for two weeks in a warm (not hot) sunny location. Then I will strain it and repeat the process by putting more fresh plantain leaves into that oil. It will be strained a final time and kept in a jar to use for abrasions, etc. This is a first for me. The oil, of course, could then be used as the base for a salve.
I also want to tincture some plantain, but still have not gotten around to it!
Lynn
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