Seeds continue to be available from the permaculture gardens of Bealtaine Cottage.
These have been grown and saved each year from plants that have no contact whatsoever with chemicals and are watered with spring water or Atlantic rain.
If you would like to have seeds saved here at Bealtaine Cottage, for your own garden or allotment, you can choose from any of the following:
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
This wonderful vegetable is packed with vitamin C and iron.
I use the leaves in smoothies and eat the tender purple sprouts raw in salads or in stir fries!
Green fennel
…with beautiful yellow flowers
Beautiful to look at, make tea with, add to salads, cook and bake with!
This beautiful plant looks fantastic as a centrepiece for a sunny herb garden, or among tall perennials and grasses.
The foliage acts as a delicate veil through which the flower heads of herbaceous plants and bulbs can be seen.
Fennel grows erect with a thick root and stout stems.
The leaves grow to 40 cm long and are finely dissected into fronds. The bright golden flowers are in bloom in July and August.
Both seeds and leaves can be eaten. I love to add fennel leaves to a summer salad and also to flavour smoothies!
Or know as, Columbine growing among the Blackcurrants in the permaculture gardens.
It is hardy to minus 30°C (-20°F) and self sown seedlings left to grow where they germinate are extremely drought-resistant.
It can be grown in harsh climates and further north, where its blooming period might be more restricted to May and June.
Grows tall and strong and comes back each year, tastes like celery and is wonderful in soups!
Lovage is a perennial herb that has been long cultivated in Europe, the leaves being used as an herb, the roots as a vegetable, and the seeds as a spice, especially in southern European cuisine.
It brings fresh taste to soups, beans, fish, tomato sauces, pickles, etc.
The sweetly scented flowers of this herb open towards evening, hence the name…
Evening Primrose was once called the “King’s cure-all” by herbalists, as it was considered a panacea for treating most ailments
The whole plant is edible: the leaves can be cooked as greens, and the nutty-flavoured roots can be boiled and eaten like potatoes, parsnips, or salsify.
The flowers make an especially lovely salad garnish.
The seeds are used to produce evening primrose oil.
*******************************************
To order, simply click on the donate button.
For each pack a suggested donation of only 1 euro and 1 euro postage and packing.
Leave your name and address together with names of seeds you want.
I will post them to you within 1 day.
************************
HERBS AVAILABLE…
Sage is traditionally used in cooking and adds a unique taste to food, however, Sage is also a very important ceremonial herb.
Sage is used to clear negative energy and as a natural incense or smudge.
Sage can be used as a blessing, disinfectant and to purify a space.
Oregano is best known for its culinary uses.
However, like all herbs, it has magical properties as well.
Greeks crowned newly-wed couples with boughs of oregano to wish them joy in their marriage.
Oregano has a lot of medicinal use – oregano poultices can be applied to insect bites and aching joints.
This magical herb is used to brew an oregano tea which is said to protect against negative energy.
Plant oregano in front of your home to ward against negative energy.
There is a video on the Bealtaine Cottage YouTube channel that shows MissyCat getting very high on this incredible herb…watch it and order some for your cat.
This dried herb is very potent and your cat will only need a small amount…it’s amazing!
Watch the video…
Fennel is rich in minerals like copper, iron, potassium, selenium, zinc, magnesium as well as vitamins A, C, E and many of the B complex group
Use the seeds to cook with.
Many people claim that fennel can help calm bloating and indigestion, improve eyesight and milk production in nursing mothers as well as helping to fight halitosis and mouth inflammations.
It is also widely held that steam from boiling fennel can be inhaled for relief in respiratory infections like asthma and bronchitis.
All the above listed Dried herbs come in 1/2 ounce bags.
A suggested donation of 3 euros plus 1euro postage and packing
Thank you!
Thank you for supporting this blog
.
If you are unable to donate, leave your name and address and I shall pop some seeds or herbs in the post for you.
************************************************
Video…Seeds of Destruction…
