Lots of Quiet

It's been a rather long time since I've written. Not much to say as far as my herbs go.  A mint oil I've been working on finished up over the weekend and I can't wait to find something to cook with it.  We've lost a few plants to root rot lately, which is breaking James' heart.  He seems to feel almost abusive towards them.  A friend of ours works with plants, so he gives us a lot of good advice and luckily has cuttings of almost all of our herbs, so he's going to mother out the cuttings he's taken and bring us cuttings when he can. 

We've got all the plants in doors now, which is quite a change from outside.  We water them less, almost as if it's only once a month.  We've got a couple of tinctures and vinegars and a honey in the cupboard, just waiting to be ready for use.  That's all I've really got to report for now, but I'll try to write more often.

The Time Has Come, The Walrus Said

To collect your seeds…

Hmmm, that’s not how it really goes, but that’s what I keep thinking.  My Purple Shiso is beginning to flower and will be seeding soon.  With all the up and coming raid, we’ve got most of the plants outside and if it seeds out, soon we’ll have little Shiso sprouts in our Agave and Sage, and while I love our Shiso, I’ll be one mad mama if it seeds into the other pots.

The Rosemary has also bloomed and will be seeding soon,  though I’ve heard that starting Rosemary from seed is incredibly difficult.  I’ll have to look more into both, and with winter coming up, I’ll probably need to start harvesting some leaves here very very soon.

Milk Tea

As I read more and more about Fennel over the weekend, I learned that it is good for milk production when nursing.  Then I remembered that while Ki was little, I used to take fennel capsules for milk production, but back then, I never really realized it was an herb.  I looked into it and found out that Goat's Rue, Fenugreek, Fennel, Raspberry Leaf, Alfalfa, Nettle, Blessed Thistle, Borage and Hops are all excellent for milk production, so I've decided to start looking into the different herbs so that in the future, I can have a self made tea for milk production, since my lactation was well... Lacking for Ki, lol.