The Schenectady Gazette did a terrific article about us and our herb gardens in yesterday's Sunday real estate section. Unfortunately, you can only see it on-line if you are a paid subscriber. But, if anyone is interested, I could email it to you...
our gardens were in the newspaper
By all means ~ Congrats! If you can't post an accessible link, I will dmail my address. pod
Congratulations! what a special recognition! cathy
Congrats herbalbetty!! I want to read it too. I dmailed my email to you!
http://theessentialherbal.blogspot.com/
Here, a friend posted it on her blog, but couldn't fit all 10 photos from the article on there!
Wow! Lovely article, Betty. I can't wait to see your gardens next year when I'm in NY. Thanks for sharing that.
Betty ~ finally slowed down and read it. What a nice article. That is one for the 'scrapbook'! I like the eclectic description. I have always considered my taste in plants as such. And you are such a young thing! lol Thanks for the email. pod
Pod...I'm really 75...see what herbs can do for you! :-)
Wow ~ bring them on! I need all the help I can get. Seriously it was a good read... Thanks pod
Betty, great article and beautiful gardens! I don't know how you keep up with everything you do so beautifully. Thanks, Jeane
I read the article...
What a very rich and rewarding life you lead, Betty! Please carry on the good work, (in spite of the RA).
Regards and kudos,- Cyra
Thanks everyone. I'm not sure how we keep up with everything either and if we are gone for a long weekend, well, the garden gets ahead of us. But, we get great joy from working the earth. If you ever want to see an adult regress to a 7-year-old, be here in the spring when new seedlings emerge from the soil. I'm clapping my hands and singing happily. My husband just rolls his eyes and smiles.
Wow, Betty! You have a story with legs. This is inspiration for all of us! And yessss--the herbs have really taken care of you as well as you of them. You look really youthful in those pictures. You are not 75!! Hard to picture this person in the photos with a Jeep full of mugwort, too. :-)
Okay, I'm not 75, I'm 45 - next month. Darn it, now how am I going to extol the virtues or herbs? :-)
Today, the Jeep is filled with lemon balm, Japanese mugwort (yomogi) and agrimony. And I've got more ripe elderberries beckoning me.
"Japanese" variety? Have you got a picture? How is it used medicinally?
On the left, second bed away from the viewer, tall plant on the right. Dang, didn't take a good close up before I cut it. Yomogi can be used to make dumplings (although I haven't yet) and is the herb used in moxibustion. It's more delicate and slender than "regular" mugwort. I can go get an individual leaf and photo it if you want.
Elderberries, Herbalbetty?
Lucky you!
Mmmmm......elderberry wine, cordials, jellies, n extracts, not to mention elderflower cough syrup & fritters....wish I didn't have to wait so very long for my newly planted elders to establish roots, & produce! Would love to help you with those elderberries, but I live on the opposite coast from you:(
Elderberries all over the place Cyra! Been making cough syrup and jelly and peach/elderberry chutney. Froze some juice today to make into whatever later. Gonna make more elderberry syrup tomorrow and add ginger to it.
I lived in the Mojave for a year. Our water bills were astronomical! But, you could grow rosemary outside year round. Not so much here.
Thanks, Herbalbetty! You don't need to photgraph a leaf unless you want to. I was just curious because I thought mugworts were from Europe originally and brought over here.
There are friends of the family in Pennsylvania who make elderberry wine every year and give us some. It is very fruity tasting wine and probably "healthy". We add it to tomato sauces and stews, as well as drink it with a meal. It gives a hearty taste to them. Not sure how it is made, though. I never asked.