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Medicinal Herbs to Grow
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items With health care often not being available or up to par, now is the time to grow your very own medicine and “skill up” on how to treat yourself medically.
Wormwood is essential for killing off parasites - caution, use in limited quantity and duration because it is toxic. Use with care and it’s certainly not for everyone.
Wormwood tastes incredibly bitter and is unpleasant to drink as a tea.
Wormwood Herb Seeds
Mugwort makes a fantastic tea. Careful growing because can become invasive.
Mugwort (Organic)
Catnip is easy to grow and cats love it. Has medicinal qualities for digestion among other things. Easy to harvest and will last for at least two years if not longer
Catnip Herb Seeds
The amazing Calendula smells great and is purported to help your tummy. Cut the heads to encourage growth. Will last for years even after it dies back as long as plenty of room for roots
SummerWinds Nursery
Ouch! But fear not, once boiled the zap! Goes away and reveals a powerful super food with many benefits!
Organic Stinging Nettle Seeds - Urtica dioica
There are three great varieties of chamomille to discover including German, Moroccan, and harder to find Roman. I recommend growing them all.
If in a pinch just take your left over chamomile tea bags and put them in the dirt. Cheap and “free” way ...
Chamomile Seeds | Shop 3 Varieties
Easy to grow and if you cut it down to roughly one inch of stem from the ground before the first frost of fall, then it will go dormant and regrow the following year.
If you don’t encourage a dormant cycle then you risk exposure to rot and mold tha...
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I have really had trouble getting this to grow for me. It can numb part of your mouth when taken hence the name!
Toothache Plant Seeds
Black Sage
Often confused with black sage the mullein has great herbal benefits especially with pulling out toxins and healing wounds
Common Mullein, Verbascum thapsus
Love these in cool drinks - cut the starflowers often to stimulate growth. The leaves are edible as well
Back to the Roots Organic Borage Blue Starflower Heirloom Seeds 46110
Quirky and doesn’t like overwatering but fantastic if you can grow and actually keep it going
Oregano - Plant Seeds
Tractor supply is hip to what growers need and have many herbal seeds available
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You need humidity and lots of water to keep a coffee tree happy! I live in zone 9b and it’s simply not enough my coffee plant is growing but has a rough time. I’d be surprised if I ever get berries
Important medicinal because what if the coffee su...
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She does a variety of episodes on worthy medicinal seeds to grow in your garden. Highly recommend tuning in!
Prepping 2.0 - Podcast
These guys are where I buy most of my trees. Packed really well and the ability to do payment plans with affirm makes it easy
Buy Trees Online | FastGrowingTrees.com
Fun plant for making beads! Ancient plant that needs more attention
Job's Tears seeds | Sow True Seed | Open- Pollinated
Once you get the hang of it, the Horseradish is easy to grow. I recommend raised bed that is 2 feet deep with lose soil. Wait for the first frost or until the top leaves die off. Old timers say the frost is essential to give the root the crisp flavo...
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Amazingly fragrant
Papalo 100 Seeds - Mexican Herb
The Portuguese discovered a nifty trick with there: the purple flowers can act as a rennet in cheese making! Usually paired with goat or sheep’s milk i am growing some in year 2026 and will let you know how it goes in 2027
Cardoon (Artichoke Thistle)
Once you have chives, you will always have chives. I haven’t had much succes growing from seed, but if you borrow a little grouping of live chives and plant them at home, you will be set.
Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum) Plant
I have some of these in my garden that are four years old. Originally purchased at Safeway as live herbs. We ate the green stalk and planted the roots into the garden. As they eventually go to seed the root balls make duplicates and with a lit’l care...
15 Green Onion Live Plants
Feverfew is an American Indian medicine for fighting the flu
Feverfew - Live Plant
Bay leaves are easy to get when you grow your own tree.
They are also great for using in your pantry to ward off beetles
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