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postheadericon Lavender (Lavender Angustifolia)

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.

postheadericon THYME (Thymus Vulgaris)

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 »