Archive for the ‘Medicinal Plants’ Category
Lavender (Lavender Angustifolia)

• This is a small aromatic shrub whose life is around six years.
• Cut it pass as flowering and payable after the cut.
• Dries in bunches hanging upside down in a cool and ventilated. Once dry, they serve to put in cloth bags to put in closets or shoemakers.
• Make perfume boxes with flowers or pillows mixed with various herbs.
• The essence of lavender is used in colognes and perfumes.
• In plaster, together with the thyme and rosemary, relieves sprains. Use for tea.
• It is grown from cuttings. Short pieces of about 10 cm. semimaduros stems in summer.
THYME (Thymus Vulgaris)

• Shrubs up to 40 inches.
• You need sun, grow well in all soil types and withstands drought.
• Do not pay with nitrogen because it lowers your resistance to frost to be tenderer.
• Like many other aromatic plants, pruning after flowering last year.
• In the kitchen is essential in grilled and stewed meats, soups, pickles …
• You can enter oil sprigs fresh thyme to make oil. Read the rest of this entry »